loose head

noun

1. rugby the prop on the hooker's left in the front row of a scrum Compare tight head

Example Sentences

Signs of a potentially more relaxed attitude to the country's strict dress code for women were present at Pezeshkian's press conference on Monday, where some female journalists wore loose head coverings.

From BBC

A dozen collard varieties sport leaves ranging from green and blue-green to the yellow-green ones of Yellow Cabbage Collards, a North Carolina heirloom whose leaves form a loose head.

From Seattle Times

From the scrum Samson Lee makes a mess of the loose head and Wales will have a penalty lineout in the Georgian half.

From The Guardian

"Being big helps me in scrums, it means I have more momentum on the hits and means that the weight baring down on the other loose head is greater."

From BBC

There were some who felt such a penalty should have been applied already, even if the moment of madness ultimately cost Vettel a victory that would have fallen into his lap after Hamilton had to pit to fix a loose head rest.

From Reuters