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noun

Football.Also called end sweep, sweep. a running play in which the ball-carrier attempts to outflank the defensive end.

Informal.

an evasive or diversionary maneuver.
an attempt to surmount a difficulty without confronting it directly.

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Origin of end run

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05

Words nearby end run

endplay, endpoint, end product, end rhyme, endrin, end run, endshake, end-stopped, Endsville, end table, end to end

How to use end run in a sentence

But just think how memorable it would have been had you made an actual end-run on Tuesday night.
The State of the Union Should Be More Like the Super Bowl|Kevin Bleyer|February 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
By bringing everything up, right now, Kerry does an end run around that tradition, while also deftly avoiding any specifics.
The Case For A Less-Guarded Optimism|Emily L. Hauser|July 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It should be clear to anyone that Holder has run an end run around the Espionage Act by his actions.
Pentagon Papers Lawyer James Goodale: It’s Time for Eric Holder to Resign|James C. Goodale|May 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And the very political forces that you are trying to end run would rise up and obstruct at every turn.
Should People Be Forced to Buy Liability Insurance for their Guns?|Megan McArdle|December 28, 2012|DAILY BEAST

But as I wrote last week, you cannot use semantic games to do an end run around an enumerated constitutional right.
Should People Be Forced to Buy Liability Insurance for their Guns?|Megan McArdle|December 28, 2012|DAILY BEAST
To conclude, the short question will be, Whether you will join with those who must in the end run the same fate with you?
Political Pamphlets|George Saintsbury
The lowest range of arches opening from the Grinfield-street end run to the northward.
Recollections of Old Liverpool|A Nonagenarian
Wisdom and power and means directed to an end run all through the scheme of Nature.
The Stark Munro Letters|J. Stark Munro
Claflin got another first down by two plunges at the right of the opponent's line and a wide end-run.
Left Guard Gilbert|Ralph Henry Barbour
An end run was blocked, a third forward pass was intercepted.
Red Dynamite|Roy J. Snell

Other Idioms and Phrases with end run

end run

Evasive action, as in The new department head was making an end run around the old hands who opposed her appointment. This term comes from American football, where it denotes an offensive play in which the ball carrier runs around one end of the opposing team's line. [Mid-1900s]

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