man-to-man defensenoun [ U ]
uk/ˌmæn.tə.mæn dɪˈfens//ˌmæn.tə.mæn dɪˈfens/USin football, basketball, and ice hockey, a system of defending in which an individual player is responsible for stopping one particular member of the opposing team from taking control of the ball by staying close to them all the time:
There's no substitute for aggressive, man-to-man defense.
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