Mistackle

Quick meaning: Mistackle is a verb meaning (sports) To tackle improperly, such as when it is not legal, or not in the correct manner.

Meaning

(sports) To tackle improperly, such as when it is not legal, or not in the correct manner.

More Meanings

1. To attempt to deal with (a problem) in the wrong way.
2. (sports) An illegal or badly executed tackle.

Example Sentences

A mistackle counts two yards for the team with the ball.

[…] mistackled while others are neither properly grasped nor tackled at all.

And, in what may seem a fusion of the previous two mistackling incidents, there was a third embarrassing episode.

The two thought the agreement had mistackled the shari'a by referring it to the proposed constitutional conference.

Word Forms

• mistackles
• mistackling
• mistackled

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