rugby

rugby (nominative singular)
rugbyt (nominative plural)
rugby (accusative nominative singular)
rugbyt (accusative nominative plural)
rugbyn (accusative genitive singular)
rugbyt (accusative genitive plural)
rugbyn (genitive singular)
rugbyjen (genitive plural)
rugbya (partitive singular)
rugbyja (partitive plural)
rugbyssa (inessive singular)
rugbyissa (inessive plural)
rugbysta (elative singular)
rugbyista (elative plural)
rugbyyn (illative singular)
rugbyihin (illative plural)
rugbylla (adessive singular)
rugbyilla (adessive plural)
rugbylta (ablative singular)
rugbyilta (ablative plural)
rugbylle (allative singular)
rugbyille (allative plural)
rugbyna (essive singular)
rugbyina (essive plural)
rugbyksi (singular translative)
rugbyiksi (plural translative)
rugbytta (abessive singular)
rugbyitta (abessive plural)
rugbyin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
rugbyni (nominative singular)
rugbyni (nominative plural)
rugbyni (accusative nominative singular)
rugbyni (accusative nominative plural)
rugbyni (accusative genitive singular)
rugbyni (accusative genitive plural)
rugbyni (genitive singular)
rugbyjeni (genitive plural)
rugbyani (partitive singular)
rugbyjani (partitive plural)
rugbyssani (inessive singular)
rugbyissani (inessive plural)
rugbystani (elative singular)
rugbyistani (elative plural)
rugbyyni (illative singular)
rugbyihini (illative plural)
rugbyllani (adessive singular)
rugbyillani (adessive plural)
rugbyltani (ablative singular)
rugbyiltani (ablative plural)
rugbylleni (allative singular)
rugbyilleni (allative plural)
rugbynani (essive singular)
rugbyinani (essive plural)
rugbykseni (singular translative)
rugbyikseni (plural translative)
rugbyttani (abessive singular)
rugbyittani (abessive plural)
rugbyineni (comitative plural)
rugbysi (nominative singular)
rugbysi (nominative plural)
rugbysi (accusative nominative singular)
rugbysi (accusative nominative plural)
rugbysi (accusative genitive singular)
rugbysi (accusative genitive plural)
rugbysi (genitive singular)
rugbyjesi (genitive plural)
rugbyasi (partitive singular)
rugbyjasi (partitive plural)
rugbyssasi (inessive singular)
rugbyissasi (inessive plural)
rugbystasi (elative singular)
rugbyistasi (elative plural)
rugbyysi (illative singular)
rugbyihisi (illative plural)
rugbyllasi (adessive singular)
rugbyillasi (adessive plural)
rugbyltasi (ablative singular)
rugbyiltasi (ablative plural)
rugbyllesi (allative singular)
rugbyillesi (allative plural)
rugbynasi (essive singular)
rugbyinasi (essive plural)
rugbyksesi (singular translative)
rugbyiksesi (plural translative)
rugbyttasi (abessive singular)
rugbyittasi (abessive plural)
rugbyinesi (comitative plural)
rugbymme (nominative singular)
rugbymme (nominative plural)
rugbymme (accusative nominative singular)
rugbymme (accusative nominative plural)
rugbymme (accusative genitive singular)
rugbymme (accusative genitive plural)
rugbymme (genitive singular)
rugbyjemme (genitive plural)
rugbyamme (partitive singular)
rugbyjamme (partitive plural)
rugbyssamme (inessive singular)
rugbyissamme (inessive plural)
rugbystamme (elative singular)
rugbyistamme (elative plural)
rugbyymme (illative singular)
rugbyihimme (illative plural)
rugbyllamme (adessive singular)
rugbyillamme (adessive plural)
rugbyltamme (ablative singular)
rugbyiltamme (ablative plural)
rugbyllemme (allative singular)
rugbyillemme (allative plural)
rugbynamme (essive singular)
rugbyinamme (essive plural)
rugbyksemme (singular translative)
rugbyiksemme (plural translative)
rugbyttamme (abessive singular)
rugbyittamme (abessive plural)
rugbyinemme (comitative plural)
rugbynne (nominative singular)
rugbynne (nominative plural)
rugbynne (accusative nominative singular)
rugbynne (accusative nominative plural)
rugbynne (accusative genitive singular)
rugbynne (accusative genitive plural)
rugbynne (genitive singular)
rugbyjenne (genitive plural)
rugbyanne (partitive singular)
rugbyjanne (partitive plural)
rugbyssanne (inessive singular)
rugbyissanne (inessive plural)
rugbystanne (elative singular)
rugbyistanne (elative plural)
rugbyynne (illative singular)
rugbyihinne (illative plural)
rugbyllanne (adessive singular)
rugbyillanne (adessive plural)
rugbyltanne (ablative singular)
rugbyiltanne (ablative plural)
rugbyllenne (allative singular)
rugbyillenne (allative plural)
rugbynanne (essive singular)
rugbyinanne (essive plural)
rugbyksenne (singular translative)
rugbyiksenne (plural translative)
rugbyttanne (abessive singular)
rugbyittanne (abessive plural)
rugbyinenne (comitative plural)
rugbynsa (nominative singular)
rugbynsa (nominative plural)
rugbynsa (accusative nominative singular)
rugbynsa (accusative nominative plural)
rugbynsa (accusative genitive singular)
rugbynsa (accusative genitive plural)
rugbynsa (genitive singular)
rugbyjensa (genitive plural)
rugbyaan (partitive singular)
rugbyansa (partitive singular)
rugbyjaan (partitive plural)
rugbyjansa (partitive plural)
rugbyssaan (inessive singular)
rugbyssansa (inessive singular)
rugbyissaan (inessive plural)
rugbyissansa (inessive plural)
rugbystaan (elative singular)
rugbystansa (elative singular)
rugbyistaan (elative plural)
rugbyistansa (elative plural)
rugbyynsa (illative singular)
rugbyihinsa (illative plural)
rugbyllaan (adessive singular)
rugbyllansa (adessive singular)
rugbyillaan (adessive plural)
rugbyillansa (adessive plural)
rugbyltaan (ablative singular)
rugbyltansa (ablative singular)
rugbyiltaan (ablative plural)
rugbyiltansa (ablative plural)
rugbylleen (allative singular)
rugbyllensa (allative singular)
rugbyilleen (allative plural)
rugbyillensa (allative plural)
rugbynaan (essive singular)
rugbynansa (essive singular)
rugbyinaan (essive plural)
rugbyinansa (essive plural)
rugbykseen (singular translative)
rugbyksensa (singular translative)
rugbyikseen (plural translative)
rugbyiksensa (plural translative)
rugbyttaan (abessive singular)
rugbyttansa (abessive singular)
rugbyittaan (abessive plural)
rugbyittansa (abessive plural)
rugbyineen (comitative plural)
rugbyinensa (comitative plural)
rugby (nominative singular)
rugbyt (nominative plural)
rugby (accusative nominative singular)
rugbyt (accusative nominative plural)
rugbyn (accusative genitive singular)
rugbyt (accusative genitive plural)
rugbyn (genitive singular)
rugbyjen (genitive plural)
rugbyä (partitive singular)
rugbyjä (partitive plural)
rugbyssä (inessive singular)
rugbyissä (inessive plural)
rugbystä (elative singular)
rugbyistä (elative plural)
rugbyyn (illative singular)
rugbyihin (illative plural)
rugbyllä (adessive singular)
rugbyillä (adessive plural)
rugbyltä (ablative singular)
rugbyiltä (ablative plural)
rugbylle (allative singular)
rugbyille (allative plural)
rugbynä (essive singular)
rugbyinä (essive plural)
rugbyksi (singular translative)
rugbyiksi (plural translative)
rugbyttä (abessive singular)
rugbyittä (abessive plural)
rugbyin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
rugbyni (nominative singular)
rugbyni (nominative plural)
rugbyni (accusative nominative singular)
rugbyni (accusative nominative plural)
rugbyni (accusative genitive singular)
rugbyni (accusative genitive plural)
rugbyni (genitive singular)
rugbyjeni (genitive plural)
rugbyäni (partitive singular)
rugbyjäni (partitive plural)
rugbyssäni (inessive singular)
rugbyissäni (inessive plural)
rugbystäni (elative singular)
rugbyistäni (elative plural)
rugbyyni (illative singular)
rugbyihini (illative plural)
rugbylläni (adessive singular)
rugbyilläni (adessive plural)
rugbyltäni (ablative singular)
rugbyiltäni (ablative plural)
rugbylleni (allative singular)
rugbyilleni (allative plural)
rugbynäni (essive singular)
rugbyinäni (essive plural)
rugbykseni (singular translative)
rugbyikseni (plural translative)
rugbyttäni (abessive singular)
rugbyittäni (abessive plural)
rugbyineni (comitative plural)
rugbysi (nominative singular)
rugbysi (nominative plural)
rugbysi (accusative nominative singular)
rugbysi (accusative nominative plural)
rugbysi (accusative genitive singular)
rugbysi (accusative genitive plural)
rugbysi (genitive singular)
rugbyjesi (genitive plural)
rugbyäsi (partitive singular)
rugbyjäsi (partitive plural)
rugbyssäsi (inessive singular)
rugbyissäsi (inessive plural)
rugbystäsi (elative singular)
rugbyistäsi (elative plural)
rugbyysi (illative singular)
rugbyihisi (illative plural)
rugbylläsi (adessive singular)
rugbyilläsi (adessive plural)
rugbyltäsi (ablative singular)
rugbyiltäsi (ablative plural)
rugbyllesi (allative singular)
rugbyillesi (allative plural)
rugbynäsi (essive singular)
rugbyinäsi (essive plural)
rugbyksesi (singular translative)
rugbyiksesi (plural translative)
rugbyttäsi (abessive singular)
rugbyittäsi (abessive plural)
rugbyinesi (comitative plural)
rugbymme (nominative singular)
rugbymme (nominative plural)
rugbymme (accusative nominative singular)
rugbymme (accusative nominative plural)
rugbymme (accusative genitive singular)
rugbymme (accusative genitive plural)
rugbymme (genitive singular)
rugbyjemme (genitive plural)
rugbyämme (partitive singular)
rugbyjämme (partitive plural)
rugbyssämme (inessive singular)
rugbyissämme (inessive plural)
rugbystämme (elative singular)
rugbyistämme (elative plural)
rugbyymme (illative singular)
rugbyihimme (illative plural)
rugbyllämme (adessive singular)
rugbyillämme (adessive plural)
rugbyltämme (ablative singular)
rugbyiltämme (ablative plural)
rugbyllemme (allative singular)
rugbyillemme (allative plural)
rugbynämme (essive singular)
rugbyinämme (essive plural)
rugbyksemme (singular translative)
rugbyiksemme (plural translative)
rugbyttämme (abessive singular)
rugbyittämme (abessive plural)
rugbyinemme (comitative plural)
rugbynne (nominative singular)
rugbynne (nominative plural)
rugbynne (accusative nominative singular)
rugbynne (accusative nominative plural)
rugbynne (accusative genitive singular)
rugbynne (accusative genitive plural)
rugbynne (genitive singular)
rugbyjenne (genitive plural)
rugbyänne (partitive singular)
rugbyjänne (partitive plural)
rugbyssänne (inessive singular)
rugbyissänne (inessive plural)
rugbystänne (elative singular)
rugbyistänne (elative plural)
rugbyynne (illative singular)
rugbyihinne (illative plural)
rugbyllänne (adessive singular)
rugbyillänne (adessive plural)
rugbyltänne (ablative singular)
rugbyiltänne (ablative plural)
rugbyllenne (allative singular)
rugbyillenne (allative plural)
rugbynänne (essive singular)
rugbyinänne (essive plural)
rugbyksenne (singular translative)
rugbyiksenne (plural translative)
rugbyttänne (abessive singular)
rugbyittänne (abessive plural)
rugbyinenne (comitative plural)
rugbynsä (nominative singular)
rugbynsä (nominative plural)
rugbynsä (accusative nominative singular)
rugbynsä (accusative nominative plural)
rugbynsä (accusative genitive singular)
rugbynsä (accusative genitive plural)
rugbynsä (genitive singular)
rugbyjensä (genitive plural)
rugbyään (partitive singular)
rugbyänsä (partitive singular)
rugbyjään (partitive plural)
rugbyjänsä (partitive plural)
rugbyssään (inessive singular)
rugbyssänsä (inessive singular)
rugbyissään (inessive plural)
rugbyissänsä (inessive plural)
rugbystään (elative singular)
rugbystänsä (elative singular)
rugbyistään (elative plural)
rugbyistänsä (elative plural)
rugbyynsä (illative singular)
rugbyihinsä (illative plural)
rugbyllään (adessive singular)
rugbyllänsä (adessive singular)
rugbyillään (adessive plural)
rugbyillänsä (adessive plural)
rugbyltään (ablative singular)
rugbyltänsä (ablative singular)
rugbyiltään (ablative plural)
rugbyiltänsä (ablative plural)
rugbylleen (allative singular)
rugbyllensä (allative singular)
rugbyilleen (allative plural)
rugbyillensä (allative plural)
rugbynään (essive singular)
rugbynänsä (essive singular)
rugbyinään (essive plural)
rugbyinänsä (essive plural)
rugbykseen (singular translative)
rugbyksensä (singular translative)
rugbyikseen (plural translative)
rugbyiksensä (plural translative)
rugbyttään (abessive singular)
rugbyttänsä (abessive singular)
rugbyittään (abessive plural)
rugbyittänsä (abessive plural)
rugbyineen (comitative plural)
rugbyinensä (comitative plural)


rugby

→ Russian: ре́гби (régbi) (see there for further descendants)


rugby

Unadapted borrowing from English rugby. For the /ɛ/ compare club.


rugby

(sports) rugby (sport where players can hold or kick an ovoid ball)


looper

With one out and runners on second and third, Cavan Biggio hit a looper up the middle that eluded hustling shortstop Tim Anderson in short centre field.

2022 June 22, Jay Cohen, “Blue Jays' woes continue as Harrison's walk-off single in 12th inning wins it for White Sox”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2022-06-25:

(baseball) Synonym of blooper (“a fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders”).


duff

en-noun

duff (countable and uncountable, plural duffs)

Uncertain; probably related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).


duff

en-verb

duff (third-person singular simple present duffs, present participle duffing, simple past and past participle duffed)

duffs (present singular third-person)
duffing (participle present)
duffed (participle past)
duffed (past)

Originally thieves' slang; probably a back-formation from duffer.

(US, golf) To hit the ground behind the ball.


bunt

en-noun

bunt (countable and uncountable, plural bunts)

Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.

The bunt was fielded cleanly.

(baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.

The manager will likely call for a bunt here.

(baseball, softball) The act of bunting.


bunt

en-verb

bunt (third-person singular simple present bunts, present participle bunting, simple past and past participle bunted)

bunts (present singular third-person)
bunting (participle present)
bunted (participle past)
bunted (past)

Jones bunted the ball.

(transitive, baseball) To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.

Jones bunted.

(intransitive, baseball) To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.


jigger

→ Catalan: gigre

From jig + -er (agent suffix). Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary suggests a possible link to Old High German gīga (“fiddle”).

(golf, dated) A golf club used to play low flying shots to the putting green from short distances.


lolly

en-noun

lolly (countable and uncountable, plural lollies)


blat

blaturi (plural)
blat (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
blatul (accusative definite nominative singular)
blaturi (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
blaturile (accusative definite nominative plural)
blat (indefinite singular)
blatului (definite singular)
blaturi (indefinite singular)
blaturilor (definite plural)
blatule (singular vocative)
blaturilor (vocative)

Borrowed from Russian блат (blat, “cronyism”), from Polish blat (“the flat surface of a table”) or Yiddish בלאַט (blat), from German Blatt, from Middle High German blat, plat, from Old High German blat, from Proto-West Germanic *blad (“leaf”), from Proto-Germanic *bladą (“leaf”).


return

en-verb

return (third-person singular simple present returns, present participle returning, simple past and past participle returned)

returns (present singular third-person)
returning (participle present)
returned (participle past)
returned (past)

From Middle English returnen, retornen, from Anglo-Norman returner, from Old French retourner, retorner, from Medieval Latin retornare (“to turn back”), from re- + tornare (“to turn”). Compare beturn.

der

The player couldn't return the serve because it was so fast.

(tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.

връщам

tennis: to bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve

(cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.

palauttaa

cricket: to throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper


return

en-noun

return (countable and uncountable, plural returns)

(American football) The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.

(cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.


canto

From Latin canthus or Vulgar Latin *cantus, from Ancient Greek κανθός (kanthós, “corner of the eye”).

der

(sports) the corner of the goal line and touchline


saker

association football
association football


rugger

en-noun

rugger (countable and uncountable, plural ruggers)

From rugby (“Rugby football”) + -er (Oxford “-er”). Compare contemporary soccer, from Association football. Both words seem to have originated at the University of Oxford during the 1880s. See Oxford -er.

That . . . . . . may for once put a full Rugger team in the field

1886 November 10, A. Macaulay, “The Advance of Science”, in The Oxford Magazine, page 356:

Golf is perhaps seven or eight years old in Oxford, ... football, seu Rugger, sive Soccer, not more than sixteen or seventeen.

1888 February 15, “Charley Symonds”, in The Oxford Magazine, page 224:

Rugger (schools), the Rugby game at football

1890, Albert Barrère, Charles Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume 2, Ballantyne, page 191:

It was clear to me that I was dealing with a lunatic, so I thought it well before I went any further in the matter to call upon my friend Malone, whom I had known since the old days when we both played Rugger for Richmond.

1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:

To complete the picture of the main line passenger workings, mention must be made of the excursions for International rugger and soccer matches. [...] For the rugger matches especially, a dozen or so packed trains from West Wales are put on [...]

1959 April, William Jones, John Hodge, “Resorts for Railfans - 28 Cardiff”, in Trains Illustrated, page 210:


behind

From Middle English behinde, behinden, from Old English behindan (“on the back side of, behind”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihindan, *bihindini (“on the back side of, in the rear of, behind”), from Proto-West Germanic *bi- + *hindō (“the hind side, back part”), equivalent to be- + hind. Compare Old Saxon bihindan (“behind”, adverb), Middle High German behinter (“behind; back”).

noncog

A roar from ten thousand throats go up,
For we've kicked another behind.

1880, “The Opening Ball”, in G. Lehmann, editor, Comic Australian Verse, 1975, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, second edition, Sydney University Press, published 1985, →ISBN:

Australian rules football
Australian rules football

(Australian rules football) A one-point score.


snick

en-verb

snick (third-person singular simple present snicks, present participle snicking, simple past and past participle snicked)

snicks (present singular third-person)
snicking (participle present)
snicked (participle past)
snicked (past)

(cricket) To hit (the ball) with the edge of the bat, causing a slight deflection.


snick

(cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the side of the bat; often carries to the wicketkeeper for a catch.


stymie

From the meaning in golf (where the stymie ball blocks the other ball from "seeing" the hole), perhaps from Scots stymie, stimie (“person with poor eyesight”), from Scots stime (“the least bit”). Or from Scots styme (“tiny bit, glimmer”) as in se nocht ane styme (“not to see a glimmer (of something)”). If so, it is a doublet of stime.

(golf) A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).


stymie

stymie (third-person singular simple present stymies, present participle stymieing or stymying, simple past and past participle stymied)

stymies (present singular third-person)
stymieing (participle present)
stymying (participle present)
stymied (participle past)
stymied (past)

(golf) To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie.


pilar

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīlāre, from Latin pīla (“pillar”).

(rugby) prop (the player who is next to the hooker in a scrum)


plumb

en-adj

plumb (comparative more plumb, superlative most plumb)

more plumb (comparative)
most plumb (superlative)

From Middle English plumbe, plumme, from Old French *plombe, from Latin plumba, plural of plumbum.

(cricket) Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of their wicket and should be given out.


rondo

en-noun

rondo (countable and uncountable, plural rondos)

Borrowed from Italian rondo, from French rondeau. Doublet of rondeau.

And four years after Pep from Catalonia first clapped eyes on Phil from Stockport across a crowded rondo, here finally was the consummation.

2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian:

(soccer) A game resembling keep-away, used to train soccer players: one group is tasked with completing a number of passes while the other smaller group tries to take possession of the ball.


rondo

(soccer) rondo; keep-away, piggy in the middle


pila

la-noun

pīla f (genitive pīlae); first declension

pīla (canonical feminine)
pīlae (genitive)
pīla (nominative singular)
pīlae (nominative plural)
pīlae (genitive singular)
pīlārum (genitive plural)
pīlae (dative singular)
pīlīs (dative plural)
pīlam (accusative singular)
pīlās (accusative plural)
pīlā (ablative singular)
pīlīs (ablative plural)
pīla (singular vocative)
pīlae (plural vocative)

Catalan: pila

English: pile

French: pile

Friulian: pile

Italian: pila

Old Galician-Portuguese: pia

Galician: pía

Portuguese: pia

Romanian: piuă

Sicilian: pila

Spanish: pila

Probably from Proto-Italic *pistlā, from Proto-Indo-European *pis-tlo-, from *peys- (“to crush”), whence also pīlum (“pestle, pounder”), pīnsō (“to pound, crush”).


pila

Catalan: pila

Old French: pile

→ English: pile

French: pile

Italian: pila

Old Galician-Portuguese: pia

Galician: pía

Portuguese: pilha

Sicilian: pila

Spanish: pila

From Proto-Italic *peilā, further etymology unknown. The Latin denominal pīlāre (“to fix firmly”) finds a parallel in Oscan ehpeílatasset (“[the stele] has been erected”, 3p pf. pass.).


pila

pila f (genitive pilae); first declension

pilae (genitive)
pila (nominative singular)
pilae (nominative plural)
pilae (genitive singular)
pilārum (genitive plural)
pilae (dative singular)
pilīs (dative plural)
pilam (accusative singular)
pilās (accusative plural)
pilā (ablative singular)
pilīs (ablative plural)
pila (singular vocative)
pilae (plural vocative)

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pilotta

⇒ Old French: pelote

French: pelote

→⇒ Old Occitan: pelota

→⇒ Catalan: pilota

→⇒ Galician: pelota

→⇒ Portuguese: pelota

→⇒ Spanish: pelota

⇒ Polish: piłka

⇒ Welsh: pêl

Likely from pilus (“hair”), thus originally meaning "bundle of hair".

Persequi singulos longum est quorum aut latrunculi aut pila aut excoquendi in sole corporis cura consumpsere vitam.

c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 13

It would be tedious to mention all the different men who have spent the whole of their life over chess or ball or the practice of baking their bodies in the sun.


blind

From Middle English blynd, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.


balk

From Middle English balke, from Old English balca, either from or influenced by Old Norse bálkr (“partition, ridge of land”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô. Cognate with Dutch balk (“balk”), German Balken (“balk”), Italian balcone (“balcony”).

der

(baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.


vee

(cricket) The arc of the field, forward of the batsman, from cover to midwicket, in which drives are played.

(cricket) The V-shaped joint between the lower end of the handle and the blade of the bat.


continuation

en-noun

continuation (countable and uncountable, plural continuations)

From Middle English continuacion, from Old French continuation, from Latin continuātiō.
Morphologically continue + -ation

(basketball) A successful shot that, despite a foul, is made with a single continuous motion beginning before the foul, and that is therefore valid in certain forms of basketball.


disqualification

disqualification (countable and uncountable, plural disqualifications)

(basketball): The act of being forbidden from further play in a basketball game due to the accumulation of too many personal fouls.


breaker

breaker (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
breakant (gerund participle present)
breakant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
breaké (participle past)
breaké (participle past)
breake (first-person indicative present singular)
breakes (indicative present second-person singular)
breake (indicative present singular third-person)
breakons (first-person indicative plural present)
breakons (first-person indicative plural present)
breakez (indicative plural present second-person)
breakez (indicative plural present second-person)
breakent (indicative plural present third-person)
breakais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
breakais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
breakais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
breakais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
breakait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
breakait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
breakions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
breakions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
breakiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
breakiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
breakaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
breakaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
breakai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
breakai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
breakas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
breakas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
breaka (historic indicative past singular third-person)
breaka (historic indicative past singular third-person)
breakâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
breakâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
breakâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
breakâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
breakèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
breakèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
breakerai (first-person future indicative singular)
breakerai (first-person future indicative singular)
breakeras (future indicative second-person singular)
breakeras (future indicative second-person singular)
breakera (future indicative singular third-person)
breakera (future indicative singular third-person)
breakerons (first-person future indicative plural)
breakerons (first-person future indicative plural)
breakerez (future indicative plural second-person)
breakerez (future indicative plural second-person)
breakeront (future indicative plural third-person)
breakeront (future indicative plural third-person)
breakerais (conditional first-person singular)
breakerais (conditional first-person singular)
breakerais (conditional second-person singular)
breakerais (conditional second-person singular)
breakerait (conditional singular third-person)
breakerait (conditional singular third-person)
breakerions (conditional first-person plural)
breakerions (conditional first-person plural)
breakeriez (conditional plural second-person)
breakeriez (conditional plural second-person)
breakeraient (conditional plural third-person)
breakeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
breake (first-person present singular subjunctive)
breakes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
breake (present singular subjunctive third-person)
breakions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
breakions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
breakiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
breakiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
breakent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
breakasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
breakasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
breakasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
breakasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
breakât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
breakât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
breakassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
breakassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
breakassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
breakassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
breakassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
breakassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
breake (imperative second-person singular)
breakons (first-person imperative plural)
breakons (first-person imperative plural)
breakez (imperative plural second-person)
breakez (imperative plural second-person)

(tennis) to break (win a game when receiving)


dolly

Welsh: doli

From doll + -y, from the given name Dorothy, originally applied either to a woman or female pet or to a children's toy, and expanded to refer to various types of contrivances or devices. The Online Etymology Dictionary, while considering the reason for applying it to such devices unobvious, compares how the names jack, jenny and jimmy are also applied to devices.

rattaat

term not specific to bridge construction

(cricket, dated) A ball hit by a batsman such that it goes gently to a fielder for a simple catch.


dolly

en-verb

dolly (third-person singular simple present dollies, present participle dollying, simple past and past participle dollied)

dollies (present singular third-person)
dollying (participle present)
dollied (participle past)
dollied (past)


concede

concede (third-person singular simple present concedes, present participle conceding, simple past and past participle conceded)

concedes (present singular third-person)
conceding (participle present)
conceded (participle past)
conceded (past)

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French conceder, from Latin concēdō (“give way, yield”), from con- (“wholly”) + cēdō (“to yield, give way, to go, grant”), from Proto-Indo-European *ked- (“to go, yield”).

der

(cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.


crease

From earlier English creast, from Middle English crest (“ridge, crest”). More at crest.

(cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping crease, but also the bowling crease and the return crease.

rajaviiva

one of the white lines drawn on the pitch

(lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.

(ice hockey, handball) The area in front of each goal.


caution

en-noun

caution (countable and uncountable, plural cautions)

Recorded since 1297 as Middle English caucioun (“bail, guarantee, pledge”), from Old French caution (“security, surety”), itself from Latin cautiō, from cautus, past participle of caveō, cavēre (“be on one's guard”).


caution

en-verb

caution (third-person singular simple present cautions, present participle cautioning, simple past and past participle cautioned)

cautions (present singular third-person)
cautioning (participle present)
cautioned (participle past)
cautioned (past)


bail

From Middle English beyle, from Old English bīeġels, from bīeġan + -els.

As Jason Roy's throw came in from deep mid-wicket, a diving Guptill was short when Buttler removed the bails, sending England and the whole of Lord's into delirious celebrations.

2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London:

(cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.

palikka

in cricket - crosspiece on top of the stump to form a wicket


brace

From Middle English brace, from Old French brace (“arm”), from Latin bracchia, the nominative and accusative plural of bracchium (“arm”).

The Manchester United midfielder’s late brace against Cyprus at the weekend was welcome, but will become no more than a footnote of his Scotland career. His brace here to down the mighty Spanish will go down in history.

28 March 2023, Graeme McGarry, “Scott McTominay earns place in history as Scotland stun Spain”, in The Herald:

To score a 'brace' means that you have scored two goals in a game.

2020 October 23, “What is a brace in soccer?”, in Goal:

(soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.

(cricket) Two wickets taken with two consecutive deliveries.


heave

en-noun

heave (countable and uncountable, plural heaves)

From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, from the root *keh₂p-. See also have.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian heffe, Dutch heffen ("to raise", "to lift"), German heben ("to raise", "to lift"), Danish hæve ("to raise", "to lift"), Albanian kap (“I grasp, seize”), Old Irish cáin (“law, tribute”), cacht (“prisoner”), Latin capiō (“to take”), Latvian kàmpt (“to seize”), Ancient Greek κάπτω (káptō, “to gulp down”), κώπη (kṓpē, “handle”)).

cog

That left 15 needed from Boult's final set. Two dots were followed by a heave over deep mid-wicket, then came the outrageous moment of fortune.

(cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory


extra

(cricket) A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball.


cradle

en-verb

cradle (third-person singular simple present cradles, present participle cradling, simple past and past participle cradled)

cradles (present singular third-person)
cradling (participle present)
cradled (participle past)
cradled (past)

From Middle English cradel, credel, from Old English cradol, from Proto-West Germanic *kradul, from Proto-Germanic *kradulaz, from Proto-Germanic *kradô (“(wicker) basket”). Related to cart.

der

(lacrosse) To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.

veivata

lacrosse: to rock the lacrosse stick back and forth


prise

→ Dutch: prise

→ Greek: πρίζα (príza)

→ Persian: پریز (periz)

→ Romanian: priză

→ Turkish: priz


mound

From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundu, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂-nt-éh₂ (“the beckoning one”), from *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”).
Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) (German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“a guardian”)), Old Norse mund (“hand”) (Icelandic mund), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), and possibly Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”).

cog

The pitcher was waiting at the mound.

(baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.


foul

en-adj

foul (comparative fouler, superlative foulest)

fouler (comparative)
foulest (superlative)

Inherited from Middle English foul, from Old English fūl (“foul, dirty, unclean, impure, vile, corrupt, rotten, stinking, guilty”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūl, from Proto-Germanic *fūlaz (“foul, rotten”), from Proto-Indo-European *puH- (“to rot”).
Cognate with Dutch vuil (“foul, dirty, filthy, obscene, lewd”), German faul (“foul, rotten, putrid, lazy”), German Low German fuul (“foul, rotten, putrid”), Faroese fúlur (“foul”), Icelandic fúll (“foul, rotten, sullen”), Danish ful (“nasty, ugly”), Norwegian Bokmål ful (“clever, sly”), Norwegian Bokmål ful (“clever, sly”) and Swedish ful (“ugly, dirty, bad”), and through Indo-European, with Albanian fëlliq (“to make dirty”), Latin puter (“rotten”). More at putrid.
Ancient Greek φαῦλος (phaûlos, “bad”) is a false cognate inasmuch as it is not from the same etymon, instead being cognate to few.

cog

Jones hit foul ball after foul ball.

(baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.

оплетен

having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement


foul

en-verb

foul (third-person singular simple present fouls, present participle fouling, simple past and past participle fouled)

fouls (present singular third-person)
fouling (participle present)
fouled (participle past)
fouled (past)

Inherited from Middle English foulen, fulen, from Old English fūlian (“to become foul; rot; decay”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūlēn, from Proto-Germanic *fūlāną (“to rot; decay”).

der

Smith fouled him hard.

The Gunners dominated for long periods but, against the run of play, Denilson fouled Max Gradel and Robert Snodgrass put Leeds ahead from the spot.

2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC:

(transitive, basketball, soccer) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.

фаулирам

Smith fouled within the first minute of the quarter.

State begins fouling and UCLA misses a couple of front-end free throws on one-and-ones.

2009, Brandon Lang, Stanley Cohen, Beating the Odds: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Sports Handicapper, →ISBN:

(intransitive, basketball, soccer) To commit a foul.

Jones fouled the ball off the facing of the upper deck.

(transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.

Jones fouled for strike one.

(intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.


foul

→ Cantonese: foul

→ Polish: faul

→ Russian: фол (fol)

→ Turkish: faul

Jones hit a foul up over the screen.

(baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.


drift

en-noun

drift (countable and uncountable, plural drifts)

From Middle English drift, dryft (“act of driving, drove, shower of rain or snow, impulse”), from Old English *drift (“drift”), from Proto-Germanic *driftiz (“drift”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Equivalent to drive + -t; cognate with North Frisian drift (“drift”), Saterland Frisian Drift (“current, flow, stream, drift”), Dutch drift (“drift, passion, urge”), German Drift (“drift”) and Trift (“drove, pasture”), Danish drift (“impulse, instinct”), Swedish drift (“impulse, instinct”), Icelandic drift (“drift, snow-drift”).

cog

(cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.


splitter

lumper

antonym(s) of “one who prefers to split categories”

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-splitter.wav

split-finger fastball
split-finger fastball


retire

en-verb

retire (third-person singular simple present retires, present participle retiring, simple past and past participle retired)

retires (present singular third-person)
retiring (participle present)
retired (participle past)
retired (past)

/ɹəˈtaɪə(ɹ)/

From Middle French retirer (“draw back”), from Old French retirer, built from re- (“back”) + tirer (“draw, pull”), the latter from Vulgar Latin *tīrāre, of highly uncertain origin.

Jones retired in favour of Smith.

(intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat.

luopua

cricket: to voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed

Jones retired Smith 6-3.

Jones makes the catch for the third out, and that retires the side.

(transitive, baseball, of a fielder) To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out, either by means of a put out, fly out or strikeout. Also, when such an event ends a team's turn at bat.

polttaa

baseball: to make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out


gap

From Middle English gap, gappe, from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), from gapa (“to gape, scream”), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to open wide, gape”). Related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ġeap (“open space, expanse”); compare English gape.

cog

Jones doubled through the gap.

(baseball) The regions between the outfielders.


splice

Circa 1525, borrowed from Middle Dutch splissen (Modern Dutch splitsen); akin to Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”), German spleißen (“to split, splice”), Spliss (“split ends, hair breakage”), French épisser (also from Dutch). The Dutch word originally referred only to the fraying of the ropes' ends but was then also used for the entire process of fraying and retying; hence the peculiar semantic development from “split” to “join”. The same development occurred in German.

If the ball hits the splice, it is likely to dolly up for an easy catch.

(cricket) That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.


secondary

From Middle English secundarie, from Latin secundārius (“of the second class or quality”), from secundus (whence the English second) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary), equivalent to second + -ary; compare the French secondaire, the Italian secondario, the Occitan secundari, the Portuguese secundario, and the Spanish secundario.

der

English numerals#Ordinal numbers
secondary

(American football, Canadian football) The defensive backs.


sett

fo-noun

sett n (genitive singular sets, plural sett)

sets (genitive singular)
sett (plural)
sett (indefinite nominative singular)
settið (definite nominative singular)
sett (indefinite nominative plural)
settini (definite nominative plural)
sett (accusative indefinite singular)
settið (accusative definite singular)
sett (accusative indefinite plural)
settini (accusative definite plural)
setti (dative indefinite singular)
settinum (dative definite singular)
settum (dative indefinite plural)
settunum (dative definite plural)
sets (genitive indefinite singular)
setsins (definite genitive singular)
setta (genitive indefinite plural)
settanna (definite genitive plural)

(sports, tennis, badminton, volleyball) set


sneak

Possibly from Middle English sniken (“to creep, crawl”), from Old English snīcan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *snīkan, from Proto-Germanic *snīkaną (“to creep, crawl”), which is related to the root of snake. Compare Danish snige (“to sneak”), Swedish snika (“to sneak, hanker after”), Icelandic sníkja (“to sneak, hanker after”). Possibly related to snitch.

cog

(obsolete, cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter

(American football) A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.


slice

From Middle English sclise, sklise, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German slīzan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit.

der

(golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw.

(cricket) A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter.


slice

en-verb

slice (third-person singular simple present slices, present participle slicing, simple past and past participle sliced)

slices (present singular third-person)
slicing (participle present)
sliced (participle past)
sliced (past)

no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney

(transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).

svirgolare

(golf) to hit a shot that travels to one side

Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner.

2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 – 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:

(transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.

(transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.


peel

en-noun

peel (countable and uncountable, plural peels)

From Middle English pelen, from Old English pilian and Old French peler, pellier; both from Latin pilō, pilāre (“to remove hair from, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pill.

der

(countable, rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation.

ganda

(Rugby football) The action of peeling away from a formation


peel

en-verb

peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)

peels (present singular third-person)
peeling (participle present)
peeled (participle past)
peeled (past)

Named from Walter H. Peel, a noted 19th-century croquet player.

(croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).


slam

slam (third-person singular simple present slams, present participle slamming, simple past and past participle slammed)

slams (present singular third-person)
slamming (participle present)
slammed (participle past)
slammed (past)

From Middle English *slammen (not recorded), apparently from a Scandinavian source ultimately from Old Norse slæma, slœma (“to slam, swing a weapon, strike an object out of reach”), related to Old Norse slamra, slambra (“to slam”). Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål slamre (“to slam”), Swedish slamra (“to pound, beat, make a clatter, rattle”), Norwegian Nynorsk slamra (“to sway, dangle”).

правя капо

card games: to defeat by winning all the tricks

(basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.


slam

en-noun

slam (countable and uncountable, plural slams)

(countable, tennis) One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events.


rally

From Middle French rallier (French rallier), from Old French ralier, from Latin prefix re- + ad + ligare (“to bind; to ally”).

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-rally.wav

(squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.

table tennis; badminton; table tennis; badminton


snag

The Australian National Dictionary Centre suggests that snag as slang for "sausage" most likely derives from the earlier British slang for "light meal", although it makes no comment on how it came to be specifically applied to sausages.Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms The word's use in football slang originates as a shortening of "sausage roll", rhyming slang for "goal", to sausage, and hence, by synonymy, snag.

2003, Greg Baum, "Silver anniversary of a goal achieved", The Age
"It just kept coming down and I just kept putting them through the middle," he said. "I got an opportunity, and I kicked a few snags."

(Australian rules football, slang) A goal.


release

en-verb

release (third-person singular simple present releases, present participle releasing, simple past and past participle released)

releases (present singular third-person)
releasing (participle present)
released (participle past)
released (past)

From Middle English relesen, relessen, from Old French relaisser (variant of relascher).

With the Gunners far too lightweight in midfield, Mikel Arteta dropped back into a deeper-lying role. This freed Yossi Benayoun to go further forward, a move that helped forge a rare Arsenal chance on 30 minutes when the Israeli released Van Persie, only for the Dutchman's snap-shot to be tipped around the post.

2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1-1 Arsenal”, in BBC:

(soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity


spike

From Middle English spike, spyke, spik, from Old Norse spík (“spike, sprig”), from Proto-Germanic *spīkō (“stick, splinter, point”), from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“to be pointed; sharp point, stick”). Cognate with Icelandic spík (“spike”), Swedish spik (“spike, nail”), Dutch spijker (“nail”), Old English spīcing (“spike”), and Latin spīca (“ear of corn”), which may have influenced some senses.

шпайкове

informal: running shoes with spikes in the soles

(volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.


spike

en-verb

spike (third-person singular simple present spikes, present participle spiking, simple past and past participle spiked)

spikes (present singular third-person)
spiking (participle present)
spiked (participle past)
spiked (past)

terästää

to covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink

(volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.

to spike the football

“No one is spiking the football yet,” Mr. Kahl said.

2022 September 13, Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper, quoting Colin Kahl, “The Critical Moment Behind Ukraine’s Rapid Advance”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(American football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.


wedgie

(basketball, slang) A basketball stuck between the rim and the backboard following a field goal, free throw, rebound, or block attempt.


slag

nl-noun

slag m (plural slagen, diminutive slagje n)

slagen (plural)
slagje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: slag

Negerhollands: slaa

From Middle Dutch slach, from Old Dutch slag, from Proto-West Germanic *slagi, from Proto-Germanic *slagiz.

Hij gaf de bal een harde slag met de knuppel en raakte een homerun.

He gave the ball a powerful hit with the bat and hit a home run.

De tennisser gaf een perfecte slag en sloeg de bal recht over het net.

The tennis player executed a perfect stroke and hit the ball right over the net.


server

→ Danish: server

→ Dutch: server

→ German: Server

→ Hindi: सर्वर (sarvar)

→ Hungarian: szerver

→ Italian: server m

→ Japanese: サーバー (sābā)

→ Korean: 서버 (seobeo)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: server, sørver

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: server, sørvar

→ Persian: سرور

→ Polish: serwer

→ Portuguese: server

→ Romanian: server n

→ Russian: се́рвер (sérver)

desc

→ Thai: เซิร์ฟเวอร์ (sə́əp-wə̂ə)

→ Thai: เซิร์ฟเวอร์ (sə́əp-wə̂ə)

→ Turkish: server

From Middle English servere, equivalent to serve + -er.

(tennis, volleyball) The player who serves the ball.

One who serves.
The player who serves the ball.


server

serveren (definite singular)
servere (indefinite plural)
serverne (definite plural)

From English server. Akin to serve + -er.


server

serveren (definite singular)
serverar (indefinite plural)
serverane (definite plural)


scout

From Middle English scout, scoult, from Old French escoute (“action of listening”), verbal noun from escouter (“to listen, heed”), from Latin auscultō (“to listen”). The verb comes from the noun.

der

(UK, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.


stumped

en-adj

stumped (comparative more stumped, superlative most stumped)

more stumped (comparative)
most stumped (superlative)

(cricket, of a batsman, not comparable) out as a result of the wicket-keeper breaking the wicket with the ball while the batsman is out of his crease.


seagull

en-verb

seagull (third-person singular simple present seagulls, present participle seagulling, simple past and past participle seagulled)

seagulls (present singular third-person)
seagulling (participle present)
seagulled (participle past)
seagulled (past)

From sea + gull. The second element is from a Brythonic language. Compare Welsh gwylan, Breton gouelan.

[…] and when you need cover for the fullback because of the bombs raining down, when the walking maul requires every forward to quit seagulling and actually do some hard graft, then the rest of the game opens up.

2002 September 24, Greig Blanchett, “Re: The Immorality of the Drop Goal”, in rec.sport.rugby.union (Usenet):

On hand was seagulling number eight Dave Hodges to cross for the all-important try.

2002 December 13, “Sharks beached at Stradey”, in BBC Sport:

That occurred in the 12th minute when flanker George Smith, seagulling out wide, enjoyed the rewards of a two-man overlap to score.

2003 November 2, Greg Growden, “Australia survives scare”, in The Age:

France was full of running and continued to spread the ball wide or kick in behind the defence, where towering right-winger Aurelien Rougerie and the seagulling French back row had a height advantage contesting the high ball.

2003 November 10, Mark Fuller, “Impeccable France outclasses Ireland”, in The Age:

Samo seagulled for Australia's final try two minutes from time.

2011 September 24, Darren Walton, “Injuries sour Wallabies 67-5 win over USA”, in MSN NZ:

(British, Australia, New Zealand, rugby slang, of a forward) To run in the back line rather than concentrate on primary positional duties in open play.


reverse dunk

(basketball) A dunk in which the player's back is to the basket when the ball is dunked.


thunderdunk

(basketball) An extremely forceful dunk.


lob jam

From the two aspects of the play: a lob pass and a jam shot by the receiver.

(basketball, rare) Synonym of alley oop.


shy

From Middle English shy (“shy”), from Old English sċēoh (“shy”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeuh (“shy, fearful”), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“shy, fearful”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian skjou (“shy”), Dutch schuw (“shy”), German scheu (“shy”), Danish sky (“shy”).
Etymology tree
Middle English shy
English shy

etymon

(Scotland, soccer) A throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head.


slam dunk

(basketball) An impressively forceful dunk.


SF

en-noun

SF (countable and uncountable, plural SFs)

→ Japanese: エスエフ, SF (SF)

(basketball) Initialism of small forward.


free-throw lane

free-throw lane (plural free-throw lanes)

Players must remain outside the free-throw lane until the ball leaves the free-throw shooter's hands.

(basketball) The rectangular or trapezoidal area between the free-throw line and the end line.


half-court line

half-court line (plural half-court lines)

(basketball) The line parallel to the end lines and midway between them.


charity stripe

(US, basketball, informal) The free-throw line.


half-court violation

half-court violation (plural half-court violations)

(basketball) A turnover occurring when the team with possession, having brought the ball over the half-court line causes it to cross back over the line without interference from the other team.


shotgun offense

shotgun offense (plural shotgun offenses)

(American football) An offense in which the quarterback sets up at a distance behind the center and the ball is snapped through the air.


FT

FT (countable and uncountable, plural FTs)


alley oop

Borrowed from French allez-hop!, the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic.

Owens helped beat the Chicago Bears with a catch he made in the end zone;... a week later he gathered in an Alley Oop from Tittle for a victory over Green Bay.

1965, Harold Rosenthal, The Big Play, page 71:

It was a mystery how he managed to ride at all with that set-up, let alone tweak alley-oops on this natural quarter pipe!

2006, Snowboard Journal, number 10, page 29:

Kobe Bryant–to–Shaquille O'Neal alley-oops are among the most iconic and lasting NBA images of the early 2000s. The duo's alley-oop in Game 7 of the 2000 Western Conference finals stands above the rest, without a doubt.

2017, National Basketball Association, "Top Moments: Famous Alley-oop from Kobe to Shaq Caps Lakers' Comeback"

(US sports) A high and arcing pass, catch, or move, especially (basketball) a shot made by a player as part of the same jump used to catch a pass.

ponte aérea

basketball: a play in which one player catches a pass while airborne and scores


fast break

Their pressure defense gives them a lot of fast breaks off of steals.

(basketball) An offensive play in which a team, having won possession of the ball, moves the ball downcourt as quickly as possible, attempting to get an easy shot before the defense can set up.


zone defense

zone defense (countable and uncountable, plural zone defenses)

Outside shooting is essential to beating a zone defense.

(basketball, soccer) A defense in which each player covers an area of the court.


lane violation

(basketball) The act of entering the free-throw lane before the free-throw shot has left the shooter's hands.


points in the paint

(basketball, colloquial) Points scored from within the free-throw lane.


man-to-man defense

man-to-man defense (plural man-to-man defenses)

They'll have trouble playing a man-to-man against such a fast guard and tall center.

(basketball) A defense in which each player guards a particular opposing player.


UEFA

w:Union of European Football Associations

Acronym of Union of European Football Associations.


UEFA

UEFA (nominative singular)
UEF-y (genitive singular)
UEF-ie (dative singular)
UEF-ę (accusative singular)
UEF-ą (instrumental singular)
UEF-ie (locative singular)
UEF-o (singular vocative)

Orthographic borrowing from English UEFA.

obor

UEFA (Union of European Football Associations, one of six continental bodies of governance in association football)


bunny

From bun (“rabbit”) + -y (diminutive suffix). Probably from Scottish Gaelic bun (“bottom, butt, stump, stub”), from Old Irish bun (“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”), from Proto-Celtic *bonus, though its origin is uncertain. Compare also English bum. Together with rabbit, bunny has largely displaced its former rhyme cony (see cony for more).

der

(cricket) Synonym of rabbit (“batsman frequently dismissed by the same bowler”)


DFA

(baseball) Initialism of designated for assignment.


airball

* From air + ball.
* The first recorded use of the "airball" chant was on February 24, 1979, during a college basketball game between the Duke University Blue Devils and the North Carolina Tar Heels after the Tar Heels' Rich Yonakor took a shot which missed the rim.

As soon as the shot left his hands, the spectators could see it was going to be an airball.

Johnson also could have tied the game, at 66-66 with 14 seconds left. But his jump shot was an airball. From that scramble Lopez emerged with the first of his key foul shots.

1990 April 3, David Levine, “COLLEGE BASKETBALL; Fordham Defeats Iona to Advance”, in The New York Times:

Bryant’s path to becoming a champion, after all, began with a series of infamous misses: his playoff airballs as a rookie against Utah. Clarkson sees those airballs as a metaphor for Bryant’s clunky start against the Jazz two decades later.

2021 April 13, Bill Oram, “Remembering Kobe Bryant’s final game: Five years later, five untold stories about the Lakers legend’s 60-point night”, in The New York Times:

(basketball) A shot that misses the backboard, rim and net entirely.


airball

en-verb

airball (third-person singular simple present airballs, present participle airballing, simple past and past participle airballed)

airballs (present singular third-person)
airballing (participle present)
airballed (participle past)
airballed (past)

Tatum struggled with fatigue through the final two rounds of the postseason and was exhausted to the point he was airballing shots by the time the Warriors were closing out the championship.

2022 August 8, Jared Weiss, “Jayson Tatum opens up on lessons from Celtics’ finals loss, Kevin Durant trade”, in The New York Times:

The Timberwolves lost 128-125 when KAT airballed a falling 30-footer at the buzzer.

2024 January 23, Zach Harper and Shams Charania, “Joel Embiid’s 70-point NBA welcome to Victor Wembanyama. Plus, Shams on Heat-Hornets trade”, in The New York Times:

(basketball, transitive) To throw an airball.


cis

cise (genitive singular)
nominative (indefinite)
cis (indefinite singular)
ciseanna (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a chis (indefinite singular)
a chiseanna (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
cise (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an chis (definite singular)
na ciseanna (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na cise (definite singular)
na gciseanna (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an gcis (definite singular)
don chis (definite singular)
leis na ciseanna (definite plural)

From Middle Irish ces (“basket, hamper, pannier; bee-hive, skep; causeway of hurdles”), from Old Norse kesja, Latin cista.


swerve

en-noun

swerve (countable and uncountable, plural swerves)

From Middle English swerven, swarven, from Old English sweorfan (“to file; rub; polish; scour; turn aside”), from Proto-Germanic *swerbaną (“to rub off; wipe; mop”), from Proto-Indo-European *swerbʰ- (“to turn; wipe; sweep”). Cognate with West Frisian swerve (“to wander; roam; swerve”), Dutch zwerven (“to wander; stray; roam”), Low German swarven (“to swerve; wander; riot”), Swedish dialectal svärva (“to wipe”), Icelandic sverfa (“to file”).

cog

(cricket) Synonym of drift (“sideways movement imparted by spin bowler”)


dunk

en-verb

dunk (third-person singular simple present dunks, present participle dunking, simple past and past participle dunked)

dunks (present singular third-person)
dunking (participle present)
dunked (participle past)
dunked (past)

From Pennsylvania German dunke, from Middle High German dunken, from Old High German dunkōn (“to dip, submerge, dunk”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunkōn (“to make wet”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *þunkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to moisten, wet”).
Cognate with German tunken (“to dunk”), Latin tingō (“to wet, moisten”), Ancient Greek τέγγω (téngō, “to wet, moisten”). Related to taint, tincture, tint.

cog

The center spun quickly and dunked the ball with authority.

(transitive, intransitive, basketball) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power.


dunk

nl-noun

dunk m (plural dunks, diminutive dunkje n)

dunks (plural)
dunkje (diminutive neuter)


paddle

en-noun

paddle (countable and uncountable, plural paddles)

→ Danish: paddel, padle

Partly from the verb paddle ("to splash, dabble"; see below) and partly from Middle English padell (“small spade”).
Middle English padell is from Medieval Latin padela, itself of uncertain origin: perhaps an alteration of Middle English *spaddle (see also spaddle), a diminutive of spade; or from Latin patella (“pan, plate”), the diminutive of patina, or a merger of the two. Compare Ancient Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder, steering oar”), derived from πηδός (pēdós, “the blade of an oar; an oar”).

cog

(UK)

(table tennis) A broad, flat device used in striking the ball, analogous to a racket in tennis.


snap

en-noun

snap (countable and uncountable, plural snaps)

From Dutch snappen (“to bite; seize”) or Low German snappen (“to bite; seize”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snappōn, from Proto-Germanic *snappōną (“to snap; snatch; chatter”), intensive form of *snapāną (”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse snapa (“to get; scrounge”)), from Proto-Indo-European *snop-; compare Lithuanian snãpas (“beak, bill”). (One alternative hypothesis links the Germanic words to *snu-, an expressive root deriving words meaning “nose”, “snout”, “sniff” etc., but this is phonetically unsound.) In any case influenced by onomatopoeia; note expressions such as snip-snap, containing the formally unrelated snip.
Cognate with West Frisian snappe (“to get; catch; snap”), German schnappen (“to grab”), Swedish snappa (“to snatch”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

gloss

”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse <i class="Latn mention" lang="non">snapa</i> (“to get; scrounge”)

sound-symbolic

expressive

onom

onomatopoeia

cog

According to Pro Football Focus, Simmons, listed at 6-foot-4 and 238 pounds, played at least 100 snaps at five positions — slot cornerback, edge rusher, linebacker and both safety spots — and finished with 16½ tackles for a loss, eight sacks, eight pass deflections and three interceptions.

2020 April 24, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in New York Time:

(American football) A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.


snap

en-verb

snap (third-person singular simple present snaps, present participle snapping, simple past and past participle snapped or (obsolete) snapt)

snaps (present singular third-person)
snapping (participle present)
snapped (participle past)
snapped (past)
snapt (obsolete participle past)
snapt (obsolete past)

sound-symbolic

expressive

onom

onomatopoeia

захапвам

to attempt to seize with the teeth or bite

napsauttaa

to cause something to emit a snapping sound

He can snap the ball to a back twenty yards behind him.

(transitive, American football) To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).

antaa aloitussyöttö

to pass the ball from the center to a back, to hike the ball

(cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).


Australian rules football

A variety of football devised in Australia, played on an oval field with an oval ball that players try to kick between the goalposts or between a central and outer post.


pivot

From Middle English pevet, *pivot, from Old French pivot (“hinge pin, pivot”) (12th c.), possibly from Latin pūgiō.


pivot

Inherited from Old French pivot, of uncertain origin. Compare Catalan piu (“pivot”), Spanish púa (“sharp point, spike”).

Pivot (basket-ball) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ᶠʳ

Pivot (handball) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ᶠʳ


clip

en-verb

clip (third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipt or clipped)

clips (present singular third-person)
clipping (participle present)
clipt (participle past)
clipt (past)
clipped (participle past)
clipped (past)

From Middle English clippen, from Old Norse klippa (“to clip, cut the hair, shear sheep”). Cognate with Icelandic klippa (“to clip”), Swedish klippa (“to clip”), Danish klippe (“to clip”), Norwegian Bokmål klippe (“to clip”).

der

(American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.


fungo

Uncertain; perhaps from Scots fung (“to fling, throw”).

The fielding coach played fungo with the outfielders to warm them up.

Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter aren’t going to China to […] hit fungoes to wide-eyed Chinese kids.

2007 January 25, Murray Chass, “Yanks Hope to Get a Jump in China”, in New York Times:

(baseball) A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.

He is so strong he could hit it out of the park with a fungo.


fungo

en-verb

fungo (third-person singular simple present fungos, present participle fungoing, simple past and past participle fungoed)

fungos (present singular third-person)
fungoing (participle present)
fungoed (participle past)
fungoed (past)

(baseball) To take part in a fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.


track

→ Kashubian: trak (Canada)

From Middle English trak, tracke, from Old French trac (“track of horses, trail, trace”), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic source, either Old Norse traðk ("a track; path; trodden spot"; > Icelandic traðk (“a track; path; tread”), Faroese traðk (“track; tracks”), Norwegian tråkke (“to trample”)) or from Middle Dutch trec, *trac, treck ("line, row, series"; > Dutch trek (“a draft; feature; trait; groove; expedition”)), German Low German Treck (“a draught; movement; passage; flow”). See tread, trek.

gloss

"line, row, series"; > Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">trek</i> (“a draft; feature; trait; groove; expedition”)


Bayern

Clipping of Bayern Munich from German Bayern (“Bavaria”) (clipping of Bayern München).

(soccer) Bayern Munich (a German football club based in Munich)

F.C. Bayern Munich
de:F.C. Bayern München


bush

(baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"


ege

From è- (“nominalizing prefix”) + gé (“to cut”).


PPG

en-noun

PPG (countable and uncountable, plural PPGs)

polypropylene glycol
polypropylene glycol#English

(organic chemistry) Initialism of polypropylene glycol.


honor

honor (countable and uncountable, plural honors)

From Middle English honour, honor, honur, from Anglo-Norman honour, honur, from Old French honor, from Latin honor.
Displaced Middle English menske (“honor, dignity among men”), from Old Norse menskr (“honor”).
The verb is from Middle English honouren, honuren (“to honor”).

оньо́р

card games: one of the most valuable cards

a prophet has no honor in his own country

a prophet is not without honor save in his own country

(in the plural) The privilege of going first.

(golf) The right to play one's ball before one's opponent.

honor

golf: right to play one's ball before one's opponent


blanco

Borrowed from Spanish (from the colour/color of their strip). Doublet of bianco.

(soccer) a Real Madrid football/soccer player

(soccer, in the plural) the Real Madrid football/soccer team


skier

However, when Guha returned, she picked the wrong ball to pull and hit a skier to Charlotte Edwards.

2002, Jeff Green, "New Zealand win tri-series in convincing style", Cricinfo

The second thing I did my best to get out of was the unpleasant position Monty found himself in rather too often in Sri Lanka: standing under a skier in the deep.

2012, Harry Pearson, "There's always a catch – unless it's me or Monty underneath the ball", The Guardian

(cricket) A ball hit high in the air, often leading to a catch.


gat

From Dutch gat (“hole, gap; arse”), from Middle Dutch gat, from Old Dutch *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.


court

→ Bulgarian: корт (kort)

→ French: court

desctree

→ Russian: корт (kort)
→ Armenian: կորտ (kort)

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

caught (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

From Middle English court, from Old French cort, curt, from Latin cōrtem (accusative of cōrs), ultimately from cohors. Doublet of cohort.

مَلْعَب

place for playing the game of tennis and some other ball games

The local sports club has six tennis courts and two squash courts.

The shuttlecock landed outside the court.

By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.

1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:

(sports) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, volleyball, squash and some other games

The photograph at left captures a great serve by Dr. Sadowsky, who will never forget one of Bobby Riggs's serves, which had such a great spin that it landed in his court and bounced back to the other side of the net before he had a chance to return it.

one of the two divisions of a tennis, badminton or volleyball court, in which the player or players of each team play


albatross

en-noun

albatross (plural albatross or albatrosses)

Uncertain. Probably from Spanish or Portuguese alcatraz (“pelican, gannet, albatross”), probably derived from Arabic الْغَطَّاس (al-ḡaṭṭās, “the diver”) (compare Alcatraz); or from Portuguese alcatruz (“water wheel bucket”), from Arabic الْقَادُوس (al-qādūs), from Ancient Greek κάδος (kádos, “pail, jar”), in reference to the pouch of a pelican. In either case, altered under the influence of Latin albus (“white”). Not derived from modern Arabic قَطْرَس (qaṭras, “albatross”), which is perhaps borrowed from Spanish.
For sense development of "burden", see albatross around one’s neck.

der

Albatross (disambiguation)
albatross (metaphor)

(golf) A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole, except a par 3 hole.


albatross

head

albatross c (definite plural albatrossen, indefinite plural albatrosser, definite plural albatrosserna)

albatrossen (definite plural)
albatrosser (indefinite plural)
albatrosserna (definite plural)

(golf) an albatross or double eagle (a score of three strokes under par for a hole)


BCS

Bowl Championship Series
w:Bowl Championship Series

(American football, historical) Initialism of Bowl Championship Series. Replaced after the 2013 season by the College Football Playoff.


diritto

From Vulgar Latin *dērēctus or *dirictus, both assimilated forms from Latin dīrectus. Doublet of diretto.


stand-up

en-adj

stand-up (comparative more stand-up, superlative most stand-up)

more stand-up (comparative)
most stand-up (superlative)

stand-up double; stand-up triple

(baseball, of a hit) That allows the batter to advance to a given base (usually second or third) without having to slide.


clothesline

Coordinate term: clotheshorse

Hang this towel out on the clothesline for me.

A rope or cord tied up outdoors to hang clothes on so they can dry.

A structure with multiple cords for the same purpose, such as a Hills hoist.

(Canada, US, informal) The act of knocking a person over by striking his or her upper body or neck with one's arm, as if he or she had run into a low clothesline.


clothesline

en-verb

clothesline (third-person singular simple present clotheslines, present participle clotheslining, simple past and past participle clotheslined)

clotheslines (present singular third-person)
clotheslining (participle present)
clotheslined (participle past)
clotheslined (past)

The referee called a personal foul, when he clotheslined the running back.

One beast jams out its arm, as if to clothesline me, jagged claws poised to take my head off at the neck. I let my feet fall from under me, throwing my legs forward, praying for some momentum, ducking and sliding, a mad limbo to freedom.

2014, Jonathan Wood, No Hero, Titan Books, →ISBN:

"I turned around and the next thing I was taken out by this big guy. I'm not sure if he punched me or clothes-lined me," he said.

2014 February 21, “Ear-bite actor Clive Mantle was like 'big monster', court told”, in BBC News:

(Canada, US, informal, transitive) To knock (a person) over by striking his or her upper body or neck with one's arm, as if he or she had run into a low clothesline.


hike

From English dialectal hyke (“to walk vigorously”), probably a Northern form of hitch, from Middle English hytchen, hichen, icchen (“to move, jerk, stir”). Cognate with Scots hyke (“to move with a jerk”), dialectal German hicken (“to hobble, walk with a limp”), Danish hinke (“to hop”). More at hick.

cog

(American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.


hike

en-verb

hike (third-person singular simple present hikes, present participle hiking, simple past and past participle hiked)

hikes (present singular third-person)
hiking (participle present)
hiked (participle past)
hiked (past)

(American football) To snap the ball to start a play.


chinaman

From Chinaman, a dated, now offensive term for a Chinese person. Compare Chinese (“unfamiliar, unexpected”). Named in reference to Ellis Achong, a West Indian player of Chinese descent.

Several cricketers came up to them and asked Pradeep about his effortless action mimicry and his promising chinaman bowling.

2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 103:

(cricket, dated) A left-arm unorthodox bowling action (left-arm wrist-spin).

(cricket) A spin bowler who uses such an action.

(cricket) A ball delivered with such an action.


jungle

en-noun

jungle (countable and uncountable, plural jungles)

→ Catalan: jungla

→ Czech: džungle

→ Danish: jungle

→ Dutch: jungle

→ French: jungle
→ Romanian: junglă

desctree

→ German: Dschungel, Tschungel
→ Hungarian: dzsungel

→ Esperanto: ĝangalo

→ Italian: giungla

→ Japanese: ジャングル (janguru)

→ Korean: 정글 (jeonggeul)

→ Polish: dżungla

→ Russian: джу́нгли (džúngli)
→ Armenian: ջունգլի (ǰungli)
→ Georgian: ჯუნგლი (ǯungli)

→ Serbo-Croatian: džungla

→ Slovak: džungľa

→ Slovene: džungla

→ Spanish: jungla

→ Swedish: djungel

→ Ukrainian: джу́нглі (džúnhli)

→ Welsh: jyngl

/ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/

Borrowed from Hindustani جَن٘گَل (jaṅgal) / जंगल (jaṅgal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”). First appears c. 1776 in a translation by Nathaniel Halhed.

der

you can take the monkey out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the monkey

Hitting from the Jungle. The rough at some courses is just weeds and sparse grass, as often as not giving a player a decent lie to shoot from. But grass above four inches is nasty. It will grab your club and alter your shots.

2006, Rob Blumer, Rex Chaney, Essential golf instruction, page 167:


speculator

From Latin speculātor (“spy, explorer, investigator”), from speculor (“to watch, to observe”) + -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from specula (“watchtower”), from speciō (“to watch, to observe”), q.v. In some senses, an agent noun formed within English from speculate. Doublet of spectator.


fore

(golf) An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.

fore

in golf: yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction


goner

From gone + -er. First attestations around 1850.

(baseball slang) A ball hit out of the playing area for a home run.


shift

en-noun

shift (countable and uncountable, plural shifts)

From Middle English schiften, from Old English sċiftan (“to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise”), from Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną, *skiptijaną, from earlier *skipatjaną (“to organise, put in order”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyb- (“to separate, divide, part”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate, part”). Cognate with Scots schift, skift (“to shift”), West Frisian skifte, skiftsje (“to sort”), Dutch schiften (“to sort, screen, winnow, part”), German schichten (“to stack, layer”), Swedish skifta (“to shift, change, exchange, vary”), Norwegian skifte (“to shift”), Icelandic skipta (“to switch”). See ship.

cog

Teams often use a shift against this lefty.


audible

en-verb

audible (third-person singular simple present audibles, present participle audibling, simple past and past participle audibled)

audibles (present singular third-person)
audibling (participle present)
audibled (participle past)
audibled (past)

Borrowed from Middle French audible, from Late Latin audibilis, from Latin audire (“to hear”).

The quarterback audibled after seeing the defensive formation.

(intransitive, American football) To change the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one.


audible

The audible changed the play to a run.

(American football) The act of or an instance of changing the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one.


flinch

From Middle French flenchir (“to bend”), of Germanic origin. Compare Middle High German lenken (“to bend”). Attested in English since the 16th century.

(croquet) The slipping of the foot from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.


flinch

flinch (third-person singular simple present flinches, present participle flinching, simple past and past participle flinched)

flinches (present singular third-person)
flinching (participle present)
flinched (participle past)
flinched (past)

(croquet) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.


salami

en-noun

salami (countable and uncountable, plural salamis)

From Italian salami, plural of salame (“salami”), from sale (“salt”), from Latin sal.


entrar

gl-verb

entrar (first-person singular present entro, first-person singular preterite entrei, past participle entrado)

entro (first-person present singular)
entrei (first-person preterite singular)
entrado (participle past)
entrar (impersonal infinitive)
entrar (first-person infinitive singular)
entrares (infinitive second-person singular)
entrar (infinitive personal singular)
entrarmos (first-person infinitive plural)
entrardes (infinitive plural second-person)
entraren (infinitive personal plural)
entrando (gerund)
entrado (masculine participle past singular)
entrado (first-person masculine participle past singular)
entrado (masculine participle past second-person singular)
entrados (masculine participle past plural)
entrados (first-person masculine participle past plural second-person)
entrada (feminine participle past singular)
entrada (feminine first-person participle past singular)
entrada (feminine participle past second-person singular)
entradas (feminine participle past plural)
entradas (feminine first-person participle past plural second-person)
entro (first-person indicative present singular)
entras (indicative present second-person singular)
entra (indicative present singular)
entramos (first-person indicative plural present)
entrades (indicative plural present second-person)
entran (indicative plural present)
entraba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
entrabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
entraba (imperfect indicative singular)
entrabamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
entrabades (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
entraban (imperfect indicative plural)
entrei (first-person indicative preterite singular)
entraches (indicative preterite second-person singular)
entrou (indicative preterite singular)
entramos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
entrastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
entraron (indicative plural preterite)
entrara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
entraras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
entrara (indicative pluperfect singular)
entraramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
entrarades (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
entraran (indicative pluperfect plural)
entrarei (first-person future indicative singular)
entrarás (future indicative second-person singular)
entrará (future indicative singular)
entraremos (first-person future indicative plural)
entraredes (future indicative plural second-person)
entrarán (future indicative plural)
entraría (conditional first-person singular)
entrarías (conditional second-person singular)
entraría (conditional singular)
entrariamos (conditional first-person plural)
entrariades (conditional plural second-person)
entrarían (conditional plural)
entre (first-person present singular subjunctive)
entres (present second-person singular subjunctive)
entre (present singular subjunctive)
entremos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
entredes (plural present second-person subjunctive)
entren (plural present subjunctive)
entrase (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
entrases (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
entrase (imperfect singular subjunctive)
entrásemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
entrásedes (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
entrasen (imperfect plural subjunctive)
entrar (first-person future singular subjunctive)
entrares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
entrar (future singular subjunctive)
entrarmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
entrardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
entraren (future plural subjunctive)
entra (imperative second-person singular)
entre (imperative singular)
entremos (first-person imperative plural)
entrade (imperative plural second-person)
entren (imperative plural)
non entres (imperative negative second-person singular)
non entre (imperative negative singular)
non entremos (first-person imperative negative plural)
non entredes (imperative negative plural second-person)
non entren (imperative negative plural)
entrar (impersonal infinitive)
entrar (first-person infinitive singular)
entrares (infinitive second-person singular)
entrar (infinitive singular third-person)
entrarmos (first-person infinitive plural)
entrardes (infinitive plural second-person)
entrarem (infinitive plural third-person)
entrando (gerund)
entrado (first-person masculine participle past singular third-person)
entrado (masculine participle past second-person singular)
entrados (masculine participle past plural)
entrada (feminine first-person participle past singular third-person)
entrada (feminine participle past second-person singular)
entradas (feminine participle past plural)
entro (first-person indicative present singular)
entras (indicative present second-person singular)
entra (indicative present singular third-person)
entramos (first-person indicative plural present)
entrades (indicative plural present second-person)
entrais (indicative plural present second-person)
entram (indicative plural present third-person)
entrava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
entravas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
entrava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
entrávamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
entrávades (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
entráveis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
entrávais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
entravam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
entrei (first-person indicative preterite singular)
entraste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
entrache (indicative preterite second-person singular)
entrou (indicative preterite singular third-person)
entramos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
entrastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
entrárom (indicative plural preterite third-person)
entraram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
entrara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
entraras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
entrara (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
entráramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
entrárades (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
entráreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
entrárais (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
entraram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
entrarei (first-person future indicative singular)
entrarás (future indicative second-person singular)
entrará (future indicative singular third-person)
entraremos (first-person future indicative plural)
entraredes (future indicative plural second-person)
entrareis (future indicative plural second-person)
entrarám (future indicative plural third-person)
entrarão (future indicative plural third-person)
entraria (conditional first-person singular)
entrarias (conditional second-person singular)
entraria (conditional singular third-person)
entraríamos (conditional first-person plural)
entraríades (conditional plural second-person)
entraríeis (conditional plural second-person)
entraríais (conditional plural second-person)
entrariam (conditional plural third-person)
entre (first-person present singular subjunctive)
entres (present second-person singular subjunctive)
entre (present singular subjunctive third-person)
entremos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
entredes (plural present second-person subjunctive)
entreis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
entrem (plural present subjunctive third-person)
entrasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
entrasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
entrasse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
entrássemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
entrássedes (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
entrásseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
entrassem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
entrar (first-person future singular subjunctive)
entrares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
entrar (future singular subjunctive third-person)
entrarmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
entrardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
entrarem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
entra (imperative second-person singular)
entre (imperative singular third-person)
entremos (first-person imperative plural)
entrade (imperative plural second-person)
entrai (imperative plural second-person)
entrem (imperative plural third-person)
nom entres (imperative negative second-person singular)
nom entre (imperative negative singular third-person)
nom entremos (first-person imperative negative plural)
nom entredes (imperative negative plural second-person)
nom entreis (imperative negative plural second-person)
nom entrem (imperative negative plural third-person)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese entrar, intrar, from Latin intrāre.

inh+

(soccer, sports) tackle (to attempt to take away a ball)