wide right
Off target laterally
Wide right describes a shot or kick that misses its target by veering to the right side.
The term is most common in American football for field goal attempts that sail past the right upright: The kick went wide right, and they lost the game.
In golf, a drive that lands right of the fairway is also wide right.
The phrase carries connotations of painful near-misses, particularly for Buffalo Bills fans haunted by a famous missed kick.
- missFail to reach
- no goodWithout merit or value
- kickFoot-delivered strike
- footballField sport with goals
- field goalPoints from a kick
extra point · slice · hook · shank · pulled shot · goalpost · uprights · Norwood · Buffalo Bills · Bills · Super Bowl · laces · snap · holder · clutch · choke · heartbreak · doink
- Miami HurricanesCanes, Orange Bowl, swagger, national championships, Jim Kelly
- kicking mistakesblocked punt, bad snap, miskick
- special teamskickoff, punt, field goal, extra point, punter
wide rightgood
Satisfactory in quality
dead center · on target · straight through · nailed it · bullseye
wide rightstraight
Not curved or crooked
true · dead center · down the middle · center · on line
wide, right, widely, wider, widest, widen, widened, widening, width