haul

From Middle English hālen, hailen, haulen, halien (“to drag, pull; to draw up”), from Old French haler (“to haul, pull”), from Frankish *halōn (“to drag, fetch, haul”) or Middle Dutch halen (“to drag, fetch, haul”), possibly merging with Old English *halian (“to haul, drag”); all from Proto-Germanic *halōną, *halēną, *hulōną (“to call, fetch, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”). The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
The word is cognate with Danish hale (“to haul”), Middle Dutch halen (“to draw, fetch, haul”), Dutch halen (“to fetch, bring, haul”), Old Frisian halia, Saterland Frisian halen (“to draw, haul, pull”), Low German halen (“to draw, pull”), Old High German halôn, holôn, German holen (“to fetch, get”), Norwegian hale (“to haul”), Old Saxon halôn (“to fetch, get”), Swedish hala (“to hale, haul, pull, tug”), and related to Old English ġeholian (“to get, obtain”).

cog

Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'.

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

(British, soccer) Four goals scored by one player in a game.


assist

From Middle English assisten, from Old French assister (“to assist, to attend”), from Latin assistō (“stand at, bestand”, verb).

der

Özil has 16 assists in the Premier League and three goals; he has two more goals in the Champions League. On Monday, he took Bournemouth apart in the 2-0 win at the Emirates Stadium, setting up the first for Gabriel and scoring the second himself.

2016 January 1, David Hytner, “Mesut Özil has Arsenal daring to dream of Premier League glory”, in The Guardian:

(sports) The act of helping another player score points or goals

(soccer) A decisive pass made to the goal scorer

асистенция

statistical recognition of making a pass

assist

(soccer): a pass that is decisive in scoring a goal

He had two assists in the game.

(baseball) A defensive play, allowing a teammate to record a putout.


zone

→ Korean: 존 (jon)

→ Punjabi: ਜ਼ੋਨ (zon)

From Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).

That pitch was low and away, just outside the zone.

The defender playing at the top of the zone is nine to fourteen metres out from the goal line.

1974, Franko Blazic with Zorko Soric, Team Handball, page 31:

(handball) A semicircular area in front of each goal.

(basketball, American football) A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.


pickle

en-noun

pickle (countable and uncountable, plural pickles)

→ Dutch: pickles

→ French: pickles

→ Irish: picil

→ Korean: 피클 (pikeul)

→ Portuguese: picles

→ Spanish: pickles, picle

→ Welsh: picil

From Middle English pikel (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”), borrowed from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pekel (“brine”). Cognate with Scots pikkill (“salt liquor, brine”), Saterland Frisian Piekele (“pickle, brine”), Dutch pekel (“pickle, brine”), Low German pekel, peckel, pickel, bickel (“pickle, brine”), German Pökel (“pickle, brine”).

cog

Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.


howitzer

Borrowed from Dutch houwitser, from German Haubitze, from Middle High German haufniz, from Czech houfnice, which was derived from houf (“flock, crowd”) + -nice. The Czech noun houf comes from Middle High German hufe (“heap”), from Old High German hūfo.

Belgium took a little while to catch Scotland with the first of the howitzer blows, but when the first one landed there was a certainty of more. Many more.

2018 September 7, Tom English, “Scotland 0-4 Belgium”, in BBC Sport:

(sports, rugby, ice hockey) A powerfully hit shot.


tweaker

From tweak + -er; the drug addict sense derives from the slang term tweak for methamphetamines, in reference to the punding behavior of addicts.


scrum

French: scrum

Either a back-formation from or an apocopic form of scrummage, a variant of scrimmage.

en:all the forwards joined together in an organised way

(rugby) In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way.

uztartze

(rugby) all the forwards joined together in an organised way


scrum

en-verb

scrum (third-person singular simple present scrums, present participle scrumming, simple past and past participle scrummed)

scrums (present singular third-person)
scrumming (participle present)
scrummed (participle past)
scrummed (past)


scrum

nl-noun

scrum m (plural scrums, diminutive scrummetje n)

scrums (plural)
scrummetje (diminutive neuter)


quartiere

Borrowed from French quartier, from Latin quartārium (“fourth part”).


ECB

England and Wales Cricket Board
w:England and Wales Cricket Board

(cricket) Initialism of England and Wales Cricket Board, the governing body for the sport in England and Wales.


fifth slip

(cricket) The slip fielding position beyond the fourth slip.


finger spin

left arm orthodox spin
left arm orthodox spin

(cricket) A style of bowling in which the bowler imparts spin to the ball by running his fingers down its side as he releases it; off spin for a right handed bowler and left arm orthodox spin for a left-handed one.


first slip

(cricket) The slip fielding position closest to the wicket keeper


first session

(cricket) The session of a day's play between start of play and lunch.


fine leg

en-noun

fine leg (countable and uncountable, plural fine legs)

(cricket, uncountable) A fielding position on the leg side, behind square and near the boundary.

(cricket, countable) The fielder in that position.


post

→ Bulgarian: пост (post) (Internet)

→ Chinese: po, PO

Cantonese: pou¹

Mandarin: pōu

Min Nan: pho͘

→ French: post

→ Irish: post

→ Italian: post

→ Malay: pos

→ Maori: pōhi

→ Polish: post

→ Portuguese: post

→ Russian: пост (post)

→ Scottish Gaelic: post

→ Spanish: post

→ Swahili: posta

→ Welsh: post

Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta (“stopping-place for coaches”), feminine of posto (“placed, situated”).

der

Two of the receivers ran post patterns.

(American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.


stringere

it-verb

strìngere (first-person singular present strìngo, first-person singular past historic strìnsi, past participle strétto, auxiliary avére)

strìngere (canonical)
strìngo (first-person present singular)
strìnsi (first-person historic past singular)
strétto (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
strìngere (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
stringèndo (gerund)
stringènte (participle present)
strétto (participle past)
strìngo (first-person indicative present singular)
strìngi (indicative present second-person singular)
strìnge (indicative present singular third-person)
stringiàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
stringéte (indicative plural present second-person)
strìngono (indicative plural present third-person)
stringévo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
stringévi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
stringéva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
stringevàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
stringevàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
stringévano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
strìnsi (first-person historic indicative past singular)
stringésti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
strìnse (historic indicative past singular third-person)
stringémmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
stringéste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
strìnsero (historic indicative past plural third-person)
stringerò (first-person future indicative singular)
stringerài (future indicative second-person singular)
stringerà (future indicative singular third-person)
stringerémo (first-person future indicative plural)
stringeréte (future indicative plural second-person)
stringerànno (future indicative plural third-person)
stringerèi (conditional first-person present singular)
stringerésti (conditional present second-person singular)
stringerèbbe (conditional present singular third-person)
stringerébbe (conditional present singular third-person)
stringerémmo (conditional first-person plural present)
stringeréste (conditional plural present second-person)
stringerèbbero (conditional plural present third-person)
stringerébbero (conditional plural present third-person)
strìnga (first-person present singular subjunctive)
strìnga (present second-person singular subjunctive)
strìnga (present singular subjunctive third-person)
stringiàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
stringiàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
strìngano (plural present subjunctive third-person)
stringéssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
stringéssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
stringésse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
stringéssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
stringéste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
stringéssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
strìngi (imperative second-person singular)
strìnga (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
stringiàmo (first-person imperative plural)
stringéte (imperative plural second-person)
strìngano (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
strìngere (imperative negative second-person singular)
strìnga (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
stringiàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
stringéte (imperative negative plural second-person)
strìngano (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

From Latin stringere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *streyg-.

(intransitive, sports, especially soccer) to move to the center, towards the goal; to centralize by converging towards the midfield or the opponent's goal [auxiliary avere]


session

→ Japanese: セッション (sesshon)

→ Korean: 세션 (sesyeon)

→ Scottish Gaelic: seisean

From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).

(cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.


first class

(cricket) Of or relating to a first class match.

első osztályú

cricket: relating to a first class match


MLS

Coordinate term: MLB

Major League Soccer
w:Major League Soccer

(soccer, US) Initialism of Major League Soccer, the top league of men's soccer in the US.


WS

en-noun

WS (countable and uncountable, plural WSs)

(baseball) Initialism of World Series, a best of seven game series played annually to determine the championship of United States professional baseball.


five-for

(cricket) The feat of a bowler taking five wickets in one innings


full toss

(cricket) A ball that does not bounce on the pitch before reaching the batsman.


fourth slip

(cricket) A fielding position to the off side of the third slip.


French cut

(cricket) A batsman's shot in which the ball deflects off the inside edge of the bat and travels fine down the leg side behind the batsman and often travels to the boundary.


Hawk-Eye

From hawk + eye, a reference to the bird of prey's noted eyesight.

(cricket, tennis) A system, using six static television cameras and sophisticated computing, to track the path of the ball in flight.


follow on

en-verb

follow on (third-person singular simple present follows on, present participle following on, simple past and past participle followed on)

follows on (present singular third-person)
following on (participle present)
followed on (participle past)
followed on (past)

(cricket, of a team) To bat their second innings immediately after their first innings.


grubber

England had an early opportunity with a line-out deep in French territory after a clever grubber from Foden only for Lionel Nallet to burgle back possession, and they then tore into France again as Alexis Palisson was smashed backwards after taking a garryowen and Manu Tuilagi thundered into Morgan Parra.

2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France:

Take that brilliant backline move off a scrum when Kolbe came off his left wing to put in a neat grubber for Arendse on the right wing to almost round the defense in the corner.

2023 October 28, Leighton Koopman, “YES!!! The Springboks beat the All Blacks to win another Rugby World Cup title”, in Independent Online:

(rugby) An attacking short-distance kick in behind the defence in which the ball is bounced along the ground, using the uneven bounce of the ball to make it difficult for the defence to retrieve.

(cricket) A ball that bounces unusually low such that it is difficult for the batsman to hit properly.


good length

(cricket) The area on a pitch considered to be the best place to pitch the ball in order to either get the batsman out, or restrict him from scoring; the length at which the ball bounces just too far away for it to be comfortably played either on the front foot or the back foot.


crank

From Dutch or Low German krank, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *krank, from Proto-Germanic *krangaz, *krankaz (“bent; weak”). Cognate with Scots crank, krank, German krank (“sick”).

(archaic, baseball, slang, 1800s) A baseball fan.


Bunsen

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(cricket, informal, rhyming slang) A turner (a pitch on which the ball turns easily).


gully

→ French: gollé

→ German: Gully

Origin uncertain. Possibly from a variant of Middle English golet (“esophagus, gullet”), from Old French goulet, from Latin gula (“throat”). Shift in meaning in Middle English to "water channel, ravine" may have been influenced by Middle English gylle, gille, galle (“deep narrow valley, ravine”); see gill.
Alternatively, from a diminutive of dialectal gull (“fissue, chasm”) + -y (diminutive suffix). See gull, gullick.

unc

uncertain

inh

(cricket) A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position


handled the ball

(cricket) Describing a way of getting out in which the batsman deliberately touches the ball with the hand not holding the bat.


Grand Slam

(British, soccer) winning in each of the three UEFA cups - UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and Cup Winners' Cup (defunct).

(rugby) Victory in every game in the Six Nations competition between England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France and Italy

(rugby) Victory by a Southern Hemisphere national team over all of the Home Nations—England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland—in a single tour

(Philippines, basketball) winning in each of the three Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) tournaments, each called locally a conference, in a season; see Grand Slam (PBA) on Wikipedia.


grand slam

(baseball) The hitting of a home run with the bases loaded.

gran eslam

(baseball) a home run with the bases loaded


conversion

en-noun

conversion (countable and uncountable, plural conversions)

From Middle English conversion, conversioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conversion, from Latin conversiō, from convertō.

обръщане

the act of having converted something or someone

המרת דת

to replace one religious faith with another

(rugby) A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.

(American football) An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.


half volley

(cricket) A delivery that bounces just short of the blockhole


heavy roller

Thommo pointed out on the radio that under normal circumstances the wicket retains moisture beneath a hard surface, and this water is brought to the surface by the heavy roller and causes problems on the first day of a game.

2003, David Mortimer, Classic Cricket Clangers, page 179:

(cricket) The heavier of the rollers used for flattening the pitch between innings.


hit wicket

(cricket) Describing a method of dismissal of a batsman (out) in which the batsman hits his own wicket either with the bat or his body, usually while attempting to play the ball.


backhander

From backhand + -er (patient suffix) or -er (agent noun suffix).

(racquet sports) A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.

She's a terrific backhander.

(racquet sports) A player who plays a backhand shot.


hit the ball twice

head

hit the ball twice (phrasal noun, uncountable)

34. Hit the ball twice

1992, Tony Pocock, Official Rules of Sports & Games, 1992-93, page 392:

Law 34 (Hit the ball twice) ...

2003, Marylebone Cricket Club, The official laws of cricket: Law 34 (Hit the ball twice) [online version], archived from the original on 2009-02-20:

5 Hit the ball twice - lf a striker sees that the ball, which has just been hit, is going to be caught, it would be unfair to hit the ball for a second time.

2006, Julia Hickey, Understanding Cricket:

(cricket) A rule ("law" in cricket) which when invoked results in the dismissal of a batsman (out), whereby the batsman has deliberately hit the ball with his bat a second time for a reason other than to protect his wicket.


hat trick

From hat + trick (“element of a magician’s or variety entertainer’s act; entertaining and difficult physical action”, noun). Sense 2 (“achievement of a bowler taking three wickets in three consecutive balls”)—the original sporting sense—refers to the commemorative hat formerly given as a prize to the bowler by his club.

هاتريك

three achievements in a single game, competition, season, etc.

שלושער m (shloshá'ar, literally “three-gate or goal”)

གསུམ་སྦྲགས (gsum sbrags, literally “pack-of-three”)

Jones got a hat trick yesterday. Let’s see if he can do better today.

(cricket) An achievement of a bowler taking three wickets in three consecutive balls.

(by extension, sports) Three achievements in a single game, competition, season, etc., such as three consecutive wins.

(specifically, baseball, ironic) The act of striking out three times in a game.

In ice hockey, it’s customary for fans to throw their hats on to the rink after a player scores a hat trick.

(specifically, ice hockey, soccer) Three goals scored by one player in a game.

(specifically, rugby) Three tries scored by one player in a game.

Ever heard of a Gordie Howe hat trick? It comprises a goal, an assist, and a fighting major penalty.

The car salesman came home with front-row seats to the weekend game after achieving a hat trick by selling three cars that day.

And with the debut of his new series Hyperion Bay in 1998, [Joseph] Dougherty accomplished the rare "hat trick" in television: the pilot was written, executive-produced, and codirected by Dougherty.

2002, Douglas Heil, “From Office Temp to ‘Hat Trick’ Showrunner: Interview with Joseph Dougherty”, in Prime Time Authorship: Works about and by Three TV Dramatists (The Television Series), Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 129:

Three murders in less than two weeks. That's a hat trick.

2015, Les Roberts, “Milan”, in The Ashtabula Hat Trick (A Milan Jacovich/Kevin O’Bannion Mystery), Cleveland, Oh.: Gray & Company, →ISBN, page 51:

In these modern cities, anti-infection measures had to be imposed from the top down, by a central authority. To pull this off, the authority required three things: the ability to identify cases in a timely fashion, and so determine the infection's direction of travel; an understanding of how the disease spread (by water? air? insect vector?), and hence the measures that were likely to block it; and some means of ensuring compliance with those measures. When all three of these ingredients – which we'll describe in more detail in the following sections – were in place, containment could be extremely effective, but a hat-trick was rare.

2017 May, Laura Spinney, “Chalking Doors with Crosses”, in Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: PublicAffairs, published September 2017, →ISBN, part 4 (The Survival Instinct), page 91:

(by extension, generally) Three achievements or incidents that occur together, usually within a certain period of time.

hattutemppu

three achievements or incidents that occur together, usually within a certain period of time


volley

→ Cantonese: 窩利／窝利 (wo¹ lei⁶⁻²)

→ German: Volley

→ Polish: wolej

→ Portuguese: vólei

From Middle French volée (“flight”), from Vulgar Latin volta, from Late Latin volatus.

(cricket) A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.


bottom of the ninth

Bottom, from the home team's location below visitors on the scoreboard; ninth from the number of innings in a baseball game.

Hitting a home run with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth let the home team finish ahead of the visitors.

(baseball) The second part of the ninth and final inning; the end of the game.


overlap

From over- + lap.
Cognate with Dutch overlap.

(rugby) a situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may exploit the overlap by using their superior numbers to break the opposition's defensive line. If attackers outnumber defenders by more than one player this is often termed a two man overlap or three man overlap, etc. If the attacking side fails to break through usually due to poor execution, they are said to waste an overlap.


Viking

Borrowed from Old Norse víkingr (“Viking”). Already in Old English as wīċing and Old Frisian wītsing, but assumed extinct in Middle English and borrowed anew in the 19th century; any survivals in dialect through the Middle Ages are unknown.
Old Norse víkingr itself is from Old Norse vík (“inlet, cove, fjord”) + -ingr (“one belonging to, one who frequents”) (the -r is the nominative desinence). Thus, “one from or who frequents the sea’s inlets”.
The Old English and Anglo-Frisian form, existing since at least the eighth century, could also have been derived from or influenced by Old English wīc (“camp”), on account of the temporary encampments which were often a prominent feature of the Vikings’ raids.
Others proposals were made, like e.g. deriving víkingr from the root related to the verb víkja or deriving both English and Old Norse words to *wīkingaz related to víkja or wīc.

أُرْدَمَانِيّ

One of the Scandinavian seafaring warriors

(American football) A player on the Minnesota Vikings NFL team.


égalité

→ German: Egalität

→ Romanian: egalitate

From égal + -ité, or borrowed from Latin aequālitātem. Cf. also the variant forms equalité, esgalité (Middle French), igauté, and the inherited Old French form oelté.

(tennis, table tennis, volleyball) deuce


turner

From Middle English turner, torner, tornere, turnere, turnare, equivalent to turn + -er. Also from Middle English turnour, tornour, tournour, turnoure, from Old French tornour, tourneour, tourneur, tornëor (“one who fashions something by turning”).

(cricket) A very dry pitch on which the ball will turn with ease.


crotch

Of disputed origin; two possibilities seem likely:
* From Middle English croche, variant of crucche (“crutch”); compare crook.
* From Middle English croche, variant of crouche (“cross, crozier”).

could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck

(billiards) In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.


unan

[ˈʔuː.n̪ɐn̪]

From ulunan with elision of /l/, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulun-an (“place where one rests the head: wooden headrest”). Compare Ilongot unan, Kapampangan ulnan, Bikol Central ulunan, Cebuano unlan, Hiligaynon ulunan, Waray-Waray ulunan, Maranao olonan, Higaonon uluna, Tausug ūan, and Malagasy ondana.


closer

From Middle English closere, equivalent to close (verb) + -er.

They brought their closer in for the ninth.

(baseball) A relief pitcher who specializes in getting the last three outs of the game.


inner

outer

antonym(s) of “One who supports remaining in the EU”

From Middle English inner, ynner, ynnere, from Old English innera, comparative of inne (“within”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁en.

wicket-keeping gloves
wicket-keeping gloves

(cricket) A thin glove worn inside batting gloves or wicket-keeping gloves.


fumble

Late Middle English, from Low German fummeln, fommeln, fammeln (German fummeln), or Dutch fommelen.
Or, perhaps from a Scandinavian/North Germanic source; compare related Old Norse fálma, Icelandic fálma, Danish fumle, especially Swedish fumla, famla, with variants: fumbla (“fumble”), fambla (“famble”), related to Swedish fim, fem (Danish fim, Norwegian fim, feima), with a root meaning of “cover, coating of foam or figuratively ditto”, cognate to German Feim (“surf”) and English foam. Possibly has (a more or less unconscious) connection to fathom (via Old Norse faðmr, Swedish famn) in the sense of “embrace”.
The ultimate origin for either could perhaps be imitative of fumbling. Or, from Proto-Indo-European *pal- (“to shake, swing”), see also Latin palpo (“I pat, touch softly”), and possibly Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan (“to feel”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

(sports, American football, Canadian football) A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident.


pavilion

From Middle English pavilloun, from Anglo-Norman pavilloun, from Latin pāpiliōnem, form of pāpiliō (“butterfly, moth”) (due to resemblance of tent to a butterfly’s wings), of unknown origin. Doublet of papillon.
Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.

(cricket) The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.


stig

is-noun

stig n (genitive singular stigs, nominative plural stig)

stigs (genitive singular)
stig (nominative plural)
stig (indefinite nominative singular)
stigið (definite nominative singular)
stig (indefinite nominative plural)
stigin (definite nominative plural)
stig (accusative indefinite singular)
stigið (accusative definite singular)
stig (accusative indefinite plural)
stigin (accusative definite plural)
stigi (dative indefinite singular)
stiginu (dative definite singular)
stigum (dative indefinite plural)
stigunum (dative definite plural)
stigs (genitive indefinite singular)
stigsins (definite genitive singular)
stiga (genitive indefinite plural)
stiganna (definite genitive plural)


opener

オープナー

baseball pitcher who starts the game, but is planned to have a short outing

(cricket) A batsman or bowler who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings.

pelinavaaja

The Rays debuted the opener—in which a reliever starts the game and throws anywhere from one to three innings, then gives way to a new pitcher, who will usually throw three to five as essentially a second starter—on May 19 against the Angels, using veteran righty Sergio Romo to pitch the first.

2018 August 23, Jon Tayler, “How the Tampa Bay Rays Reinvented the Concept of Starting Pitching”, in Sports Illustrated:

(baseball) A pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs of a game before being replaced, either by a long reliever or a pitcher who would normally start.


behind the arc

The Nimrods shot an amazingly futile 2-for-45 from behind the arc.

(basketball, informal) Outside the three-point line.


sweeper

From Middle English swepere, swepare, equivalent to sweep + -er. Cognate with Middle Low German swēpære, swēper (“broom for sweeping up debris”).

(soccer) A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper.

(curling) A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.

(cricket) A batsman who plays sweep shots.

(cricket) A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position.


reverse layup

(basketball) A running in which the shooter dives under the basket and shoots the ball straight away from the basket.


held ball

(basketball) A situation in which players of opposing teams both hold the ball, with neither clearly possessing it outright.


scoop shot

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(basketball) A shot taken underhanded from an unusually low position (as though scooping up the ball).


double dribble

(basketball) A violation committed by dribbling for a second time without giving up possession of the ball.


crossover dribble

en-noun

crossover dribble (plural crossover dribbles)

(basketball) A maneuver in which a dribbling player rapidly switches the ball from one side to the other in order to move around a defender.

Coach's Clipboard Video Clips of basketball maneuvers


lay-in

(basketball) A shot in which the ball is tossed directly into the basket from near the rim.


skip

Late Middle English skipper, borrowed from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schipper (“captain”), earlier "seaman", from schip (“ship”).

(curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.


layup

(basketball) A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.


foul out

A foul out was recorded on the scorecard.

His foul out sat poorly with the crowd.

(basketball) An instance of fouling out.


foul out

en-verb

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

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

He fouled out to lead off the third.

(baseball) To become out by hitting a foul ball which is caught.

The center has fouled out with only two points.

(basketball) To be disqualified from further play for having committed too many fouls.


knockdown

en-noun

knockdown (countable and uncountable, plural knockdowns)

Pires, a three-time Cup winner with Arsenal who scored the Gunners' winner against Southampton in the 2003 final, has been a largely peripheral figure at Villa Park since joining in November - but the 37-year-old rolled back the years with a fine finish from Delfouneso's knockdown.

2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Aston Villa 3 - 1 Blackburn”, in BBC:

(soccer) a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.


give up

en-verb

give up (third-person singular simple present gives up, present participle giving up, simple past gave up, past participle given up)

gives up (present singular third-person)
giving up (participle present)
gave up (past)
given up (participle past)

A good pitcher will give up very few home runs.

Fiers, who now pitches for the Oakland Athletics, has gone 27-12 with a no-hitter in two years since leaving the Astros. But the last time he faced them, on Sept. 9, he gave up nine runs, including five homers, and got just three outs.

2019 November 14, Tyler Kepner, “After Reports of Astros’ Cheating, M.L.B. Is Left to Restore Trust”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-15:

(transitive, baseball) Of a pitcher: to allow a hitter to make (a certain play).


traveling

(basketball) A violation committed by progressing while holding the ball instead of dribbling it.


waft

From Middle English waften, of uncertain origin. Possibly from unattested Old English *wafettan, from wafian (“to wave”) + -ettan, or perhaps borrowed from Middle Dutch wachten (“to guard, provide for”).
See also German wabern (“to waft”), Faroese veiftra (“to wave”) and Icelandic váfa (“to fluctuate, waver, doubt”).

der

(cricket, slang) A loose noncommittal shot, usually played to a ball pitched short of length and well wide of the off stump.


keyhole

(basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line; key.


manhattan

(cricket) a bar chart representing the number of runs scored in each over (supposed to resemble a skyline of skyscrapers).


seventh inning stretch

en-noun

seventh inning stretch (plural seventh inning stretches)

(baseball) A more extended than usual break taken between the top half and the bottom half of the seventh inning.


stumps

England still have a chance of winning tomorrow if they can get India out before stumps today.

(cricket) close of play (when the stumps are pulled out of the ground by the umpires)


infield

They covered the infield with a tarp when it started to rain.

(baseball) The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base.

camp interior

baseball: The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base.

Jones ran out an infield single.

(baseball) (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.

etukenttä-

baseball: (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.

(cricket) The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.

etukenttä

cricket: The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, etc.


scrum-half

(rugby) player who introduces the ball into a scrum.


lineout

(baseball) An out produced by catching a line drive.


knock-on

It took until the 33rd minute for England to get on the scoreboard, Wilkinson finally finding his range from out left, but a knock-on from James Haskell from the re-start put his team straight back under pressure.

2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:

(rugby) A foul in which a player knocks the ball forward, often unintentionally


fly-half

Fly-half Holly Aitchison has had a mixed tournament with the boot up until this match, with Mitchell saying in the week he had no concerns over her kicking and being proved correct in Bordeaux.

2024 April 27, Alastair Telfer, “England beat France to seal Grand Slam hat-trick”, in BBC Sport:

(rugby) A rugby player who is normally the first receiver of the ball from the scrum half after a scrum; a half-back.


farmhand

(baseball) A player in the minor leagues.


stunt

→ Danish: stunt

→ German: Stunt

→ Norwegian Bokmål: stunt

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: stunt

Unknown. Compare Middle Low German stunt (“a shoulder grip with which you throw someone on their back”), Middle English stunt (“foolish; stupid”).

cog

(American football) A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.


busta

Borrowed from Old French boiste, whence French boîte (“box”). From Medieval Latin buxida, inflected form derived from Latin buxētum (“boxwood plantation”), from Latin buxus (“boxwood”).

(Rome, colloquial, soccer) said by someone after he's nutmegged someone (made the ball pass between their legs)


reject

en-verb

reject (third-person singular simple present rejects, present participle rejecting, simple past and past participle rejected)

rejects (present singular third-person)
rejecting (participle present)
rejected (participle past)
rejected (past)

From Late Middle English rejecten, from Latin rēiectus, past participle of reicere (“to throw back”), from re- (“back”) + iacere (“to throw”). Displaced native Old English āweorpan (literally “to throw out”).

ncog

(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.


semicircle

(soccer) An arc whose center is the penalty spot, extending from the top of the penalty area.


dangle

en-verb

dangle (third-person singular simple present dangles, present participle dangling, simple past and past participle dangled)

dangles (present singular third-person)
dangling (participle present)
dangled (participle past)
dangled (past)

Uncertain, but likely of North Germanic origin, akin to Danish dingle, dangle, Swedish dangla (“to swing about”), Norwegian dangla, perhaps via North Frisian dangeln; all possibly related to Old Norse dengja (“to hit”).

He dangled around three players and the goalie to score.

(intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.


dangle

That was a sick dangle for a great goal!

(slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.


gol

gol (nominative singular)
gole (nominative plural)
gola (genitive singular)
goli (genitive plural)
golów (genitive plural)
golowi (dative singular)
golom (dative plural)
gola (accusative singular)
gole (accusative plural)
golem (instrumental singular)
golami (instrumental plural)
golu (locative singular)
golach (locative plural)
golu (singular vocative)
gole (plural vocative)


gol

marcar un gol


wicket-keeping gloves

(cricket) protective gloves worn by a wicket keeper to cushion the hands when repeatedly catching balls


wicket maiden

(cricket) A maiden over in which a bowler gets a batsman out.


with the spin

(cricket) hitting the ball in the same direction that it is spinning off the pitch


yorker

Possibly from 18th- and 19th-century slang phrase "to pull Yorkshire on a person", meaning to trick or deceive them. Compare come Yorkshire over.

(cricket) A ball bowled so as to bounce at or near the batsman's popping crease.


wrist spinner

(cricket) A bowler who specializes in wrist spin


finger spinner

(cricket) A bowler who specializes in finger spin


wrist spin

(cricket) A style of bowling in which the bowler spins the ball by releasing it from the back of the hand, running his/her fingers down the side of the ball as it is released.


wicketkeeper

The fielder clad in armour who squats behind the batsman should be respected as a specialist and not treated as a dabbler. The wicketkeeper controls the mood around the pitch. His gloves hold most of the catches, his voice accompanies every appeal. He is the factory foreman, responsible for every ball.

2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 210:

(cricket) A player who stands behind the batsman’s wicket ready to catch the ball, or to stump the batsman.

tautopenga

A player positioned behind the batsman ready to catch the ball, or to the batsman.


wagon wheel

(cricket) A graphical representation of the cricket field, with lines showing the trajectories of the scoring balls hit by a batsman; singles, fours and sixes are shown in different colours.


choke

choke (third-person singular simple present chokes, present participle choking, simple past and past participle choked)

chokes (present singular third-person)
choking (participle present)
choked (participle past)
choked (past)

From Middle English choken (also cheken), from earlier acheken, from Old English āċēocian (“to choke”), probably derived from Old English ċēoce, ċēace (“jaw, cheek”), see cheek. Cognate with Icelandic kok (“throat”), koka (“to gulp”). See also achoke.

Take a grip with your right hand, slightly choked down from your normal grip.

2014, Roger Fredericks, The Flexible Golf Swing, page 108:

(golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.


batting

en-noun

batting (countable and uncountable, plural battings)

(cricket, baseball) The action of using a bat.


stump

From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump”) or Middle Dutch stomp, from Old Saxon or Old Dutch *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop.

der

(cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.

keppi

cricket: one of the three vertical wooden posts in the wicket


stump

en-verb

stump (third-person singular simple present stumps, present participle stumping, simple past and past participle stumped)

stumps (present singular third-person)
stumping (participle present)
stumped (participle past)
stumped (past)
stump (infinitive)

(transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.

A herd of boys with clamour bowled, / And stumped the wicket.

1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

(transitive, cricket) To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).


pancake

en-noun

pancake (countable and uncountable, plural pancakes)

→ Cantonese: 班戟 (baan¹ gik¹)

→ Mandarin: 班戟 (bānjǐ)

→ Cebuano: pankeyk

→ French: pancake

→ German: Pancake

desc

→ Hijazi Arabic: بانكيك (bānkēk, pānkēk)

→⇒ Irish: pancóg

→ Japanese: パンケーキ (pankēki)

→⇒ Khmer: នំផេនខេក (num pheenkheek)

→ Korean: 팬케이크 (paenkeikeu)

→ Nauruan: epankeik

→ Portuguese: panqueca, (dated) panqueque, (dated) pancake

→ Russian: панкейк (pankejk)

→ Spanish: (Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay) panqueque, (Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico) pancake, (Venezuela) panqueca

→ Thai: แพนเค้ก (pɛɛn-kéek)

→ Turkish: pankek

→ Azerbaijani: pankek

→ Yoruba: pan̄kéèkì

Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake, equivalent to pan + cake.
Perhaps adapted from Middle Low German pankôke, pannekôke, from Old Saxon *pannakōko (suggested by derivatives Old Saxon pannakōkilo and pannakōkilīn), where the compound is much older; compare Old High German phankuohho (8th century), whence Middle High German phankuoche, German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”); further
Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”).
The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.

(countable, volleyball) A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.


unbeaten

From Middle English on bete, unbeten, unibeten; equivalent to un- + beaten; compare Old English ungebeitne (“unhewn”).

He scored an unbeaten century.


counter

→ Japanese: カウンター

→ Korean: 카운터 (kaunteo)

→ Malay: kaunter

→ Thai: เคาน์เตอร์ (káo-dtə̂ə)

→ Thai: เคาน์เตอร์ (káo-dtə̂ə)

Inherited from Middle English countour, from Old French conteor (French comptoir), from Medieval Latin computātōrium, from Latin computō, equivalent to count + -er. Doublet of cantore, computer, and kontor.

doublet

[ˈkʰaʊ̯.ɾ̃ɚ]

(curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.


counter

Het thuisteam scoorde vanuit de counter.

The home team scored during a counter-attack.

(chiefly sports, especially soccer) counter-attack, counter


huddle

From Middle English *hudelen, alteration (due to hudels, hidels (“hiding place”), see hiddle) of *huderen, hoderen (“to cover; press together; huddle”), a frequentative form of Middle English huden, hiden (“to hide”), equivalent to hide + -le and/or hide + -er. Compare Low German huderken (“to brood; coddle; nurse; lull children to sleep”).

cog

(American football) A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.


huddle

en-verb

huddle (third-person singular simple present huddles, present participle huddling, simple past and past participle huddled)

huddles (present singular third-person)
huddling (participle present)
huddled (participle past)
huddled (past)

(intransitive, American football) To form a huddle.


walker

→ Irish: válcaeir

→ Persian: واکر (vâker)

From Middle English walkere (“one who walks, traveller”), equivalent to walk + -er.

inh

(cricket) A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.


sledge

en-verb

sledge (third-person singular simple present sledges, present participle sledging, simple past and past participle sledged)

sledges (present singular third-person)
sledging (participle present)
sledged (participle past)
sledged (past)

From Sledge (“a surname”), influenced by sledgehammer. First attested in the 1960s in Australian English.
According to Ian Chappell, originated in Adelaide during the 1963/4 or 1964/5 Sheffield Shield season. A cricketer who swore in the presence of a woman was taken to be as subtle as a sledgehammer (meaning unsubtle) and was called “Percy” or “Sledge”, from singer Percy Sledge (whose song When a Man Loves a Woman was a hit at the time). Directing insults or obscenities at the opposition team then became known as sledging.

Batteries of fast bowlers softened batsmen up with short-pitched bowling, while fielders tried to disturb their concentration with a running commentary of insults commonly known as sledging.

1998, Larry Elliott, Daniel E Atkinson, The Age of Insecurity:

Then, all these...government legislators...would be able to totally concentrate on their roles and functions, without being entangled in interparty sledging and squabbles.

2004, Dhanjoo N. Ghista, Socio-Economic Democracy and the World Government: Collective Capitalism, Depovertization, Human Rights, Template for Sustainable Peace:

The 2000 Code of the Laws of Cricket includes new anti-sledging provisions.

2005, David Fraser, Cricket and the Law: The Man in White Is Always Right:

"Bloody hell even their sledging is now shite!!!" he sledged.

2013 November 6, Marina Hyde, “Whatever Shane Warne says, the Ashes sledgers need to raise their game”, in The Guardian:

it would be eccentric to change governments when we're delivering so much and when we have such a vast mandate and when we're actually only a handful of points behind in the polls, even in mid-term, after quite a few months of pretty relentless sledging and when the economic scene is so difficult domestically and internationally.

7 July 2022, Boris Johnson, resignation speech:

(chiefly cricket, Australia) To verbally insult or abuse an opponent in order to distract them (considered unsportsmanlike).


sledge

Now that's what I call a sledge.

1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 173:

(chiefly cricket, Australia) An instance of sledging.


intercept

intercept (third-person singular simple present intercepts, present participle intercepting, simple past and past participle intercepted)

intercepts (present singular third-person)
intercepting (participle present)
intercepted (participle past)
intercepted (past)

Borrowed from Latin interceptum, past participle of intercipiō.

(transitive, sports) To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game.

(transitive, American football) Of a defensive player: to steal a pass thrown by the opposing team, gaining possession of the ball.


windmill

From Middle English wyndmylne, wyndmylle, equivalent to wind + mill. Cognate with Scots wyndmyln, wyndmyl, Saterland Frisian Wíendmäälne, West Frisian wynmûne, Dutch windmolen, Afrikaans windmeul, Dutch Low Saxon windmölle (Achterhooks), wiendmeule (Drents, Veluws), German Low German Windmöhl, German Windmühle, Danish vindmølle, Norwegian Bokmål vindmølle, Norwegian Nynorsk vindmølle, vindmylne, Swedish vindmölla, Icelandic vindmylla.

(basketball) A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop.

(baseball) A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball.


shaft

From Middle English schaft, from Old English sċeaft, from Proto-West Germanic *skaft, from Proto-Germanic *skaftaz. Cognate with Dutch schacht, German German Schaft, Swedish skaft.

Sarah, if you wear gloves your hands might not slip on your shaft and you can up your game, girl!

(lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.


batting glove

(cricket) Each of a pair of protective gloves worn by a batsman to prevent damage to the fingers and hands


International Cricket Council

the International Cricket Council (canonical)
ICC (abbreviation)

(cricket) the governing body that organizes world cricket


ICC

International Cricket Council
w:International Cricket Council

(cricket) Initialism of International Cricket Council.


bowling

→ Portuguese: bólingue

(cricket) The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.

गोलंदाजी

(cricket) propelling the ball towards the batsman


inswing

(cricket) The swing of a ball through the air in a direction towards the batsman.


inswing

(cricket) Describing a bowler who uses inswing in the ball's flight.


poster

→ Burmese: ပိုစတာ (puica.ta)

→ Catalan: pòster

→ Catalan: pòster

→ Dutch: poster

→ Finnish: posteri

→ French: poster
→ Turkish: poster

→ German: Poster

→ Hindi: पोस्टर (posṭar)

→ Hungarian: poszter

→ Irish: póstaer

→ Italian: poster

→ Japanese: ポスター (posutā)

→ Korean: 포스터 (poseuteo)

→ Malay: poster

→ Manx: posteyr

→ Persian: پوستر (poster)

→ Polish: poster

→ Portuguese: pôster, póster (Portugal)

→ Romanian: poster

→ Russian: по́стер (póstɛr)

→ Spanish: póster

→ Swedish: poster

→ Tagalog: poster

→ Thai: โปสเตอร์ (bpóos-dtə̂ə))

→ Welsh: poster

(basketball) A dunk over a defending player.


pill

* From Middle English pille (also pillem), a borrowing from Middle Low German pille or Middle Dutch pille (whence Dutch pil), probably from Latin pila, pilula.
* (persuade or convince): Generalized from red pill.

"Strike two!" bawled the umpire. I threw the pill back to Tom with a heart which drummed above the noise of the rooters along the side lines.

Mr. Fisher contributed to the Sox effort when he threw the pill past second baseman Rath after Felsch hit him a comebacker.

2002, John Klima, Pitched Battle: 35 of Baseball's Greatest Duels from the Mound:


punt

punt (third-person singular simple present punts, present participle punting, simple past and past participle punted)

punts (present singular third-person)
punting (participle present)
punted (participle past)
punted (past)

Possibly a dialectal variant of bunt. Rugby is the origin of the sports usage of the term.

Australian rules football
Australian rules football

To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance.

(rugby, American football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, soccer, transitive, intransitive) To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground. (This puts the ball farther from the goal across which the opposing team is attempting to score, so improves the chances of the team punting.)

Australian rules football; Gaelic football; Australian rules football; Gaelic football

With five minutes remaining Hennessey was down well to block another Vukcevic shot, while Gunter was smartly in to punt away the dangerous loose ball.

2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC:

(soccer) To kick a bouncing ball far and high.


punt

(rugby, American football, soccer) A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground.


wick

→ Maori: wiki

From Middle English weke, wicke (“wick”), from Old English wēoce (“wick”), from Proto-West Germanic *weukā (“flax bundle, wick”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”).
Compare West Frisian wjok, wjuk (“wing”), Dutch wiek (“wing; propeller, blade; wick”), German Wieche (“wisp; wick”), Swedish veke (“wick”).

cog

(curling) A narrow opening in the field, flanked by other players' stones.

(curling) A shot where the played stone touches a stationary stone just enough that the played stone changes direction.


wick

en-verb

wick (third-person singular simple present wicks, present participle wicking, simple past and past participle wicked)

wicks (present singular third-person)
wicking (participle present)
wicked (participle past)
wicked (past)

(curling) To strike (a stone) obliquely; to strike (a stationary stone) just enough that the played stone changes direction.


periquito

(Brazil, soccer, usually derogatory) supporter of Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras


periquito

es-adj

periquito (feminine periquita, masculine plural periquitos, feminine plural periquitas)

periquita (feminine)
periquitos (masculine plural)
periquitas (feminine plural)

(soccer) a person connected with RCD Espanyol, as a player, fan, coach, etc.


poste

→ Hunsrik: Poste

(basketball) center (a player who plays closest to the basket)


tackle

en-noun

tackle (countable and uncountable, plural tackles)

From Middle English takel (“gear, apparatus”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German takel (“ship's rigging”), perhaps related to Middle Dutch taken (“to grasp, seize”). Akin to Danish takkel (“tackle”), Swedish tackel (“tackle”). More at take.

der

(rugby, American football, countable) A play where a defender brings the ball carrier to the ground.

placatge

American football, rugby: play where a defender brings the ball carrier to the ground

(American football) An offensive line position between a guard and an end: offensive tackle; a person playing that position.

hyökkäävä linjamies

American football: person playing offensive tackle

(American football) A defensive position between two defensive ends: defensive tackle; a person playing that position.

puolustava linjamies

American football: person playing defensive tackle


tackle

en-verb

tackle (third-person singular simple present tackles, present participle tackling, simple past and past participle tackled)

tackles (present singular third-person)
tackling (participle present)
tackled (participle past)
tackled (past)

(rugby, American football) To bring a ball carrier to the ground.

placar

rugby, American football: to bring a ball carrier to the ground


unbalanced

en-adj

unbalanced (comparative more unbalanced, superlative most unbalanced)

more unbalanced (comparative)
most unbalanced (superlative)

(American football) an offensive line with more players on one side of the center than on the other


willow

en-noun

willow (countable and uncountable, plural willows)

From Middle English wilwe, welew, variant of wilghe, from Old English welig, from Proto-West Germanic *wilig, from Proto-Germanic *wiligaz, from Proto-Indo-European *welik- (compare (Arcadian) Ancient Greek ἑλίκη (helíkē), Hittite 𒌑𒂖𒆪 (welku, “grass”)), from *wel- (“twist, turn”).

(baseball, slang, 1800s) The baseball bat.


line of scrimmage

line of scrimmage (plural lines of scrimmage)

(American football) Either of two imaginary lines across the football field touching one of the two apices of the football which point toward either the defensive side or the offensive side before the center is allowed to touch the ball before each play.


offensive back

(American football) A player for the team in possession of the ball who lines up behind the line of scrimmage at the start of a play.


ball carrier

(American football, Canadian football, rugby) A player who carries the football.


forward pass

(rugby and American football) A pass in the forward direction, advancing toward the goal, generally illegal except in American football, once per play, from behind the line of scrimmage.


offensive line of scrimmage

offensive line of scrimmage (plural offensive lines of scrimmage)

(American football) The scrimmage line on the offensive side of the football field.


neutral-zone infraction

neutral-zone infraction (plural neutral-zone infractions)

(American football) an infraction in which a football player, on defense, gets into or crosses the neutral zone during the snap, causing an offensive player to false start. The penalty is against the defense, not the offense. It is a 5 yard penalty.


one-minute warning

one-minute warning (plural one-minute warnings)

(American football) In the AFL, a warning given with one minute to go before the end of a half, after which special rules apply, eg, stoppage of the game clock after very first down.


wide receiver

All season, the Chiefs have struggled on offense, in particular in the pass catching department. On multiple occasions throughout the regular season, Mahomes was burned by mental miscues from his wide receivers which cost the Chiefs wins.

2024 February 12, Ben Morse and Steve Almasy, “Kansas City Chiefs defeat San Francisco 49ers in OT in Super Bowl LVIII, become first back-to-back NFL champions in 19 years”, in CNN.com:

(American football) An offensive football player whose position on the line of scrimmage is farthest from the ball and whose function is to principally to catch passes.

laitahyökkääjä

American football: offensive player position


first down

(American football) The first play in a series that has a maximum of four downs.

(American football) The act of getting a first down by advancing the ball more than ten yards ahead of the field position where the team took possession.


football field

(American football) A playing field on which the game of American football is played.


football player

football player (plural football players)

association football
association football

(soccer, UK) One who plays association football, aka soccer.

(American football, US) One who plays American football.

(Canadian football, Canada) One who plays Canadian football.


neutral zone

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

(American football) A zone between the defensive line of scrimmage and the offensive line of scrimmage.

zona neutral

football: zone between the lines of scrimmage


hand-off

hand-off (countable and uncountable, plural hand-offs)

(American football) A pass made in a backward direction.

(rugby) The act of pushing an opponent away with an open hand.


fullback

(American football) An offensive back whose primary jobs are to block in advance of the halfback on running plays and for the quarterback on passing plays.

(rugby) A position behind the main line of backs in both rugby union and rugby league. In rugby union, they wear number 15 jersey at the start of play and are the last line of defence responsible for catching punts.

For long, awkward spells, City looked out of their depth. Dani Alves and Jordi Alba attacked like whippets from the full-back positions.

2015 February 24, Daniel Taylor, “Luis Suárez strikes twice as Barcelona teach Manchester City a lesson”, in The Guardian (London):

(soccer) A player who plays on the left or right side of defence.

һаҡсы

(soccer) a player who plays on the left or right side of defence


whiff

The noun is possibly:
* partly a variant of Middle English wef, weffe (“bad smell, stench, stink; exhalation; vapour; tendency of something to go bad (?)”) [and other forms], possibly a variant of either:
** waf, waif, waife (“odour, scent”), possibly from waven (“to move to and fro, sway, wave; to stray, wander; to move in a weaving manner; (figuratively) to hesitate, vacillate”), from Old English wafian (“to wave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”); or
** wef (“a blow, stroke”), from weven (“to travel, wander; to move to and fro, flutter, waver; to blow something away, waft; to cause something to move; to fall; to cut deeply; to sever; to give up, yield; to give deference to; to avoid; to afflict, trouble; to beckon, signal”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Old English wefan (“to weave”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”)), or from wǣfan (see bewǣfan, ymbwǣfan); and
* partly onomatopoeic.
Noun sense 6 (“name of a number of flatfish”) is possibly derived from sense 1 (“brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air”), sense 4 (“small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.”), and other such senses.
The verb and adjective are derived from the noun. Verb sense 2.6 (“to catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat”) is possibly derived from sense 1.1 (“to carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air”), sense 2.2 (“to be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air”), and other such senses.
The interjection is derived from noun sense 7.4 (“a sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle”).

дъх

short inhalation or exhalation of breath

(sports, chiefly US, slang) A failure to hit a ball in various sports (for example, golf); a miss.

(baseball) From the batter's perspective: a strike.


whiff

en-verb

whiff (third-person singular simple present whiffs, present participle whiffing, simple past and past participle whiffed)

whiffs (present singular third-person)
whiffing (participle present)
whiffed (participle past)
whiffed (past)

(US, baseball) Of a pitcher: to strike out (a batter); to fan.


running back

(American football) An offensive back whose primary job is to be the ballcarrier.


glance

glance (third-person singular simple present glances, present participle glancing, simple past and past participle glanced)

glances (present singular third-person)
glancing (participle present)
glanced (participle past)
glanced (past)
glance (infinitive)

The verb is derived from Late Middle English glenchen (“of a blow: to strike obliquely, glance; of a person: to turn quickly aside, dodge”) [and other forms], a blend of:
* Old French glacier, glachier, glaichier (“to slide; to slip”) (whence also Middle English glacen (“of a blow: to strike obliquely, glance; to glide”)), from glace (“frozen water, ice”) (from Vulgar Latin *glacia, from Latin glaciēs (“ice”), of uncertain origin, + -ier (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs); and
* Old French guenchir, ganchir (“to avoid; to change direction; to elude, evade”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *wankijan (“to move aside; to stagger, sway; to wave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weng- (“to bend”).
The noun is derived from the verb.

nb...

glansen, glence, glench, glens, glanche, glauncen, glaunche

рикоширам

to strike and fly off in an oblique direction to dart aside

lyödä maila vinossa

(cricket) to hit a ball with a bat held in a slanted manner

Doncaster paid the price two minutes later when [Kevin] Doyle sent [Stephen] Hunt away down the left and his pinpoint cross was glanced in by Fletcher for his sixth goal of the season.

2011 January 18, “Wolverhampton 5 – 0 Doncaster”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2023-04-09:

(also figuratively) To cause (something) to move obliquely.

(ball games) To hit (a ball) lightly, causing it to move in another direction.

hipaista

(ball games) to hit (a ball) lightly, causing it to move in another direction

(cricket) To hit (a ball) with a bat held in a slanted manner; also, to play such a stroke against (the bowler).

lyödä maila vinossa

(cricket) to hit (a ball) with a bat held in a slanted manner; to play such a stroke against (the bowler)

(also figuratively) To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.

(cricket) To hit a ball with a bat held in a slanted manner.


glance

en-noun

glance (countable and uncountable, plural glances)

(cricket) A stroke in which the ball is hit with a bat held in a slanted manner.

lyönti maila vinossa

(cricket) stroke in which the ball is hit with a bat held in a slanted manner


knee roll

(cricket) the thick part of a batsman's pads that protects the knee


king pair

(cricket) The score of zero runs, having been out on the first ball faced in each innings of a two-innings match; a golden duck in each innings


AFL

Arena Football League
w:Arena Football League

(American football) Initialism of Arena Football League.

American Football League
w:American Football League

(obsolete, American football) Initialism of American Football League.


keep wicket

en-verb

keep wicket (third-person singular simple present keeps wicket, present participle keeping wicket, simple past and past participle kept wicket)

keeps wicket (present singular third-person)
keeping wicket (participle present)
kept wicket (participle past)
kept wicket (past)

(cricket, intransitive) To act as wicket-keeper.


golden duck

(cricket) the score of zero runs after getting out on the first ball faced


bailar

es-verb

bailar (first-person singular present bailo, first-person singular preterite bailé, past participle bailado)

bailo (first-person present singular)
bailé (first-person preterite singular)
bailado (participle past)
bailar (infinitive)
bailando (gerund)
bailado (masculine participle past singular)
bailada (feminine participle past singular)
bailados (masculine participle past plural)
bailadas (feminine participle past plural)
bailo (first-person indicative present singular)
bailas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
bailás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
baila (indicative present singular third-person)
bailamos (first-person indicative plural present)
bailáis (indicative plural present second-person)
bailan (indicative plural present third-person)
bailaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
bailabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
bailaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
bailábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
bailabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
bailaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
bailé (first-person indicative preterite singular)
bailaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
bailó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
bailamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
bailasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
bailaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
bailaré (first-person future indicative singular)
bailarás (future indicative second-person singular)
bailará (future indicative singular third-person)
bailaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
bailaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
bailarán (future indicative plural third-person)
bailaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
bailarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
bailaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
bailaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
bailaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
bailarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
baile (first-person present singular subjunctive)
bailes (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
bailés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
baile (present singular subjunctive third-person)
bailemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
bailéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
bailen (plural present subjunctive third-person)
bailara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
bailaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
bailara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
bailáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
bailarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
bailaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
bailase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
bailases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
bailase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
bailásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
bailaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
bailasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
bailare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
bailares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
bailare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
bailáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
bailareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
bailaren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
baila (imperative informal second-person singular)
bailá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
baile (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
baile (imperative singular third-person)
bailemos (first-person imperative plural)
bailad (imperative plural second-person)
bailen (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
bailen (imperative plural third-person)
bailes (imperative negative second-person singular)
baile (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
baile (imperative negative singular third-person)
bailemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
bailéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
bailen (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
bailen (imperative negative plural third-person)
bailarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
bailarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
bailarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
bailarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
bailarnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
bailaros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
bailarles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
bailarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
bailarme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
bailarte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
bailarlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
bailarla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
bailarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
bailarnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
bailaros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
bailarlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
bailarlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
bailarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
bailándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
bailándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
bailándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
bailándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
bailándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
bailándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
bailándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
bailándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
bailándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
bailándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
bailándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
bailándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
bailándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
bailándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
bailándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
bailándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
bailándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
bailándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
báilame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
báilate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
báilale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
báilanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
báilales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
báilame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
báilate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
báilalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
báilala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
báilanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
báilalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
báilalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
bailame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
bailate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
bailale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
bailanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
bailales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
bailame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
bailate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
bailalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
bailala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
bailanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
bailalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
bailalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
báileme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
báilele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
báilese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
báilenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
báileles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
báileme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
báilelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
báilela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
báilese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
báilenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
báilelos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
báilelas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
bailémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
bailémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
bailémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
bailémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
bailémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
bailémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
bailémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
bailémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
bailémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
bailémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
bailémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
bailémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
bailadme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
bailadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
bailadnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
bailaos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
bailadles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
bailadme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
bailadlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
bailadla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
bailadnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
bailaos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
bailadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
bailadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
báilenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
báilenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
báilennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
báilenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
báilense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
báilenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
báilenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
báilenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
báilennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
báilenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
báilenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
báilense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)

→ Finnish: bailata

Borrowed from Old Occitan balar, from Late Latin ballāre, borrowed from, or related to, Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”). Compare French baller, Italian ballare.


quarterback

From quarter + back, in reference to position in front of the halfback position.

Standing 6-foot-6, 237 pounds, Herbert’s size and arm strength are consistent with a prototypical N.F.L. quarterback, and he led the Ducks to a Pac-12 championship and a victory at the Rose Bowl in January with not much talent at receiver.

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

(American football, Canadian football) An offensive back whose primary job is to pass the ball in a play.

(American football, historical) An offensive back who receives the snap (hike) and then blocks the defense from crossing the line of scrimmage; a blocking back.

(rugby football, historical) A position just behind the forwards, or one who plays this position.


quarterback

en-verb

quarterback (third-person singular simple present quarterbacks, present participle quarterbacking, simple past and past participle quarterbacked)

quarterbacks (present singular third-person)
quarterbacking (participle present)
quarterbacked (participle past)
quarterbacked (past)

(American football) To play the position of quarterback.


bump

en-noun

bump (countable and uncountable, plural bumps)

From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision”), probably of North Germanic origin; compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”), all probably of imitative origin.
Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German Low German bumsen (“to bump, push”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”). More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.

onom

imitative

cog

(snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.


tocar

es-verb

tocar (first-person singular present toco, first-person singular preterite toqué, past participle tocado)

toco (first-person present singular)
toqué (first-person preterite singular)
tocado (participle past)
tocar (infinitive)
tocando (gerund)
tocado (masculine participle past singular)
tocada (feminine participle past singular)
tocados (masculine participle past plural)
tocadas (feminine participle past plural)
toco (first-person indicative present singular)
tocas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
tocás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
toca (indicative present singular third-person)
tocamos (first-person indicative plural present)
tocáis (indicative plural present second-person)
tocan (indicative plural present third-person)
tocaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
tocabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
tocaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
tocábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
tocabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
tocaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
toqué (first-person indicative preterite singular)
tocaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
tocó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
tocamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
tocasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
tocaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
tocaré (first-person future indicative singular)
tocarás (future indicative second-person singular)
tocará (future indicative singular third-person)
tocaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
tocaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
tocarán (future indicative plural third-person)
tocaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
tocarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
tocaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
tocaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
tocaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
tocarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
toque (first-person present singular subjunctive)
toques (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
toqués (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
toque (present singular subjunctive third-person)
toquemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
toquéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
toquen (plural present subjunctive third-person)
tocara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
tocaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
tocara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
tocáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
tocarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
tocaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
tocase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
tocases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
tocase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
tocásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
tocaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
tocasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
tocare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
tocares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
tocare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
tocáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
tocareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
tocaren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
toca (imperative informal second-person singular)
tocá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
toque (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
toque (imperative singular third-person)
toquemos (first-person imperative plural)
tocad (imperative plural second-person)
toquen (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
toquen (imperative plural third-person)
toques (imperative negative second-person singular)
toque (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
toque (imperative negative singular third-person)
toquemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
toquéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
toquen (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
toquen (imperative negative plural third-person)
tocarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
tocarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
tocarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
tocarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
tocarnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
tocaros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
tocarles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
tocarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
tocarme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
tocarte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
tocarlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
tocarla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
tocarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
tocarnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
tocaros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
tocarlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
tocarlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
tocarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
tocándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
tocándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
tocándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
tocándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
tocándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
tocándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
tocándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
tocándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
tocándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
tocándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
tocándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
tocándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
tocándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
tocándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
tocándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
tocándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
tocándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
tocándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
tócame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
tócate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
tócale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
tócanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
tócales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
tócame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
tócate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
tócalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
tócala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
tócanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
tócalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
tócalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
tocame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
tocate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
tocale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
tocanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
tocales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
tocame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
tocate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
tocalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
tocala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
tocanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
tocalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
tocalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
tóqueme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
tóquele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
tóquese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
tóquenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
tóqueles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
tóqueme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
tóquelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
tóquela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
tóquese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
tóquenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
tóquelos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
tóquelas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
toquémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
toquémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
toquémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
toquémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
toquémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
toquémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
toquémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
toquémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
toquémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
toquémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
toquémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
toquémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
tocadme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
tocadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
tocadnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
tocaos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
tocadles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
tocadme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
tocadlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
tocadla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
tocadnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
tocaos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
tocadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
tocadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
tóquenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
tóquenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
tóquennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
tóquenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
tóquense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
tóquenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
tóquenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
tóquenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
tóquennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
tóquenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
tóquenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
tóquense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *toccāre, *tuccāre, of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin.


ultra

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Latin uls
Proto-Indo-European *-teros?
Latin -ter
Latin -ā
Latin ultrābor.
English ultra
From Latin ultra.

etymon

A similar view is expressed by a Turin supporter in Segre's study, but in this case it is more specifically addressed to how powerful teams, such as Juventus, get preferential treatment in reports on the negative aspects of the ultras world.

2012, ALINA BERNSTEIN, Neil Blain, Sport, Media, Culture: Global and Local Dimensions, Routledge, →ISBN, page 183:

If a member of an official football club can be said to be a citizen of the football world, an ultra has to be considered as a militant.

2013, Richard Guilianotti, Football, Violence and Social Identity, Routledge, →ISBN, page 77:

Although the intention initially was to distribute tickets and arrange travel to away matches, ultras quickly became actively organised and developed an overtly passionate cultural and political identity inside each curva

2015, Jamie Cleland, A Sociology of Football in a Global Context, Routledge, →ISBN, page 30:

(soccer) An especially devoted football fan, typically associated with the intimidating use of extremist slogans, pyrotechnics and sometimes hooligan violence.


flank

From Late Middle English flanc, from Late Old English flanc (“flank”), from Old French flanc, of Germanic origin, probably Frankish *hlanca, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō (“bend, curve, hip, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“flexible, sleek, bendsome”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend”). Akin to Old High German hlanca (“loin”), Middle Low German lanke (“hip joint”) (German lenken (“to bend, turn, lead”)), Old English hlanc (“loose, slender, flaccid, lank”). More at lank.

cog

The hosts also had Paul Robinson to thank for a string of saves, three of them coming against Jerome Thomas, who gave Michel Salgado a torrid time down the left flank.

2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC:

(soccer) The wing, one side of the pitch.


airmail

en-verb

airmail (third-person singular simple present airmails, present participle airmailing, simple past and past participle airmailed)

airmails (present singular third-person)
airmailing (participle present)
airmailed (participle past)
airmailed (past)

(baseball) To (unintentionally) throw the ball well over a fielder's head where that fielder is unable to make a play on the ball.