paard

nl-noun

paard n (plural paarden, diminutive paardje n)

paarden (plural)
paardje (diminutive neuter)
perd (alternative)
peerd (alternative)

desctree

Afrikaans: perd
→ Phuthi: ipere
→ Sotho: pere

Jersey Dutch: pêrt, pêrd

→ English: prad

From Middle Dutch pert, pāert, from Old Dutch *pered, *perid, from Proto-West Germanic *parafred, from Late Latin paraverēdus. Compare German Pferd. Doublet of palefroot.


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.


phantom

From Middle English fantome, fanteme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “I make visible”). Doublet of phantasm.

der

(bridge) A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing.


prophylaxis

en-noun

prophylaxis (countable and uncountable, plural prophylaxes)

From Latin, from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”) + φύλαξις (phúlaxis, “a watching, guarding”).

(chess) A move or strategy that frustrates an opponent's plan or tactic.


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.


goulash

goulash (countable and uncountable, plural goulashes)

goulashes (plural)
gulyas (alternative)
gulasch (alternative)
goulasch (alternative)
gulash (alternative)

Borrowed from Hungarian gul(y)ás, short for gulyás hús (“beef or lamb soup made by herdsmen while pasturing”), from gulyás (“herdsman”) + hús (“meat”). First attested in English 1866.

(bridge) A style of play in which the cards are not thoroughly shuffled between consecutive deals, so as to make the suits less evenly distributed between the players.


rig

From Greek ρήγας (rígas), cognate with the also borrowed Romanian rigă. Ultimately from Latin rex, thus forming a doublet of regj.

(rare, card games) king in a pack of playing cards


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)


multiplayer

[ˌmɐɫtiˈpl̥eɪ̯ə]

[ˌmʌɫtiˈpl̥eɪ̯ɚ]

(games) Requiring or allowing multiple (or more than the usual two) players to play simultaneously.

multiplayer

allowing multiple players to play simultaneously

massively multiplayer online role-playing game


multiplayer

en-noun

multiplayer (countable and uncountable, plural multiplayers)

multiplayers (plural)
multi-player (alternative)

[ˌmɐɫtiˈpl̥eɪ̯ə]

[ˌmʌɫtiˈpl̥eɪ̯ɚ]

I just heard that the game will have multiplayer when it comes out!

Glu Mobile, who realigned its workforce towards centralized GaaS functions last year, announced earlier this month that it will shut down GameSpy Technology on May 31. The service provides multiplayer functionality for dozens of games on consoles, computers and mobile devices.

2014 May 1, Jenna Pitcher, “Glu Mobile acquires Diner Dash developer PlayFirst”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 2023-09-27:

(games, uncountable) The feature of a video game where multiple human players play simultaneously.


aso

eo-head

aso (accusative singular ason, plural asoj, accusative plural asojn)

ason (accusative singular)
asoj (plural)
asojn (accusative plural)

From French as, Italian asso, German Ass, English ace.

la pika aso

(games) a die or half of a domino with one pip in play


spook

Borrowed from Dutch spook (“ghost”), from Middle Dutch spooc (“spook, ghost”). Cognate with Middle Low German spôk, spûk (“apparition, ghost”), Middle High German gespük (“a haunting”), German Spuk, Danish spøge (“to haunt”), Swedish spöke (“ghost”). Doublet of puck.

cog

(blackjack, slang) A player who engages in hole carding by attempting to glimpse the dealer's hole card when the dealer checks under an ace or a 10 to see if a blackjack is present.


atuto

eo-head

atuto (accusative singular atuton, plural atutoj, accusative plural atutojn)

atuton (accusative singular)
atutoj (plural)
atutojn (accusative plural)

Borrowed from French atout. Equivalent to al + tuto.


cribbage

en-noun

cribbage (countable and uncountable, plural cribbages)

From crib + -age. Named from the "crib" consisting of certain cards laid aside by each player.

His solicitude for Sir Horace, his brother-in-law, was extreme, and he passed hours in the sick youth’s chamber, playing at cribbage, or dominos, or indulging the young baronet’s remarkable turn for cutting out trees, animals, or birds with tiny scissors on delicate paper.

1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter V, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 105:

How much more real this dream was than that they should go back to the house where the sleeping children lay and where Stanley and Beryl played cribbage.

1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 114

"No one remembers cribbage now," […]

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 31

(card games) A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the cribbage board used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic.


gin rummy

What is your latest foible? / Is gin rummy more exquisite? / Is skiing more enjoyable?

1943, “I'm A Stranger Here Myself”, Ogden Nash (lyrics), Kurt Weill (music):

That's what I was thinking, but then I remembered he'd never been to sea, that I'd only started calling him The Captain because he wore a captain's hat during a game of gin rummy at his grandmother's apartment one time while she was out of town.

2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 118:

(card games) A card-holding game and variant of rummy.


Go Fish

(card games) A children's card game in which players ask each other for cards of a particular rank, requiring them to "fish" in a pool of additional cards if they do not have the requested card.


pinochle

pinochle (countable and uncountable, plural pinochles)

pinochles (plural)
pinocle (alternative)

Perhaps from German Binokel, French binocle (literally “pince-nez”), a related card game.

He remembered all—every pinochle game, every woman, every sad night.

1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:

(card games) A card game, similar to bezique.

(card games) A meld of the jack of diamonds and queen of spades in that card game.


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.


niquer

From faire la nique, nique + -er (verb suffix).

(obsolete, dice games) to obtain what was announced on the first throw


pont

pontok (plural)
pont (nominative singular)
pontok (nominative plural)
pontot (accusative singular)
pontokat (accusative plural)
pontnak (dative singular)
pontoknak (dative plural)
ponttal (instrumental singular)
pontokkal (instrumental plural)
pontért (causal-final singular)
pontokért (causal-final plural)
ponttá (singular translative)
pontokká (plural translative)
pontig (singular terminative)
pontokig (plural terminative)
pontként (essive-formal singular)
pontokként (essive-formal plural)
pontban (inessive singular)
pontokban (inessive plural)
ponton (singular superessive)
pontokon (plural superessive)
pontnál (adessive singular)
pontoknál (adessive plural)
pontba (illative singular)
pontokba (illative plural)
pontra (singular sublative)
pontokra (plural sublative)
ponthoz (allative singular)
pontokhoz (allative plural)
pontból (elative singular)
pontokból (elative plural)
pontról (delative singular)
pontokról (delative plural)
ponttól (ablative singular)
pontoktól (ablative plural)
ponté (singular)
pontoké (plural)
pontéi (singular)
pontokéi (plural)
pontom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
pontjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
pontod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
pontjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
pontja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
pontjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
pontunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
pontjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
pontotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
pontjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
pontjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
pontjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Borrowed from German Punkt, from Latin punctum.

(games) pip (one of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.)


bubo

eo-head

bubo (accusative singular bubon, plural buboj, accusative plural bubojn)

bubon (accusative singular)
buboj (plural)
bubojn (accusative plural)


pone

(card games, chiefly US) The last player to bet or play in turn.


tweaker

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


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.


transpose

en-verb

transpose (third-person singular simple present transposes, present participle transposing, simple past and past participle transposed)

transposes (present singular third-person)
transposing (participle present)
transposed (participle past)
transposed (past)

From Middle English transposen, from Old French transposer, from Latin trānspositus, perfect passive participle of trānspōnō (“to put across”), from trāns (“across”) + pōnō (“to put”).

After e6, the opening transposed to a Sicilian.

(intransitive, chess) To reach a position that may also be obtained from a different move order.


make good

make good (third-person singular simple present makes good, present participle making good, simple past and past participle made good)

makes good (present singular third-person)
making good (participle present)
made good (participle past)
made good (past)

After all the players who determine to go in have made good the bet of the player who opened the Jack Pot, and the hands have been filled […]

1885, William Brisbane Dick, The American Hoyle: Or, Gentleman's Hand-book of Games:

(gambling) To match the first player's bet with one's own, rather than dropping out.


ĉevalo

eo-head

ĉevalo (accusative singular ĉevalon, plural ĉevaloj, accusative plural ĉevalojn)

ĉevalon (accusative singular)
ĉevaloj (plural)
ĉevalojn (accusative plural)
chevalo (alternative)
cxevalo (alternative)


mid

en-adv

mid (comparative more mid, superlative most mid)

more mid (comparative)
most mid (superlative)

Inherited from Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“mid, middle, midway”), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”).
Cognate with Dutch midden (“in the middle”), German Mitte (“center, middle, mean”), Icelandic miður (“middle”, adjective), Latin medius (“middle”, noun and adjective). See also middle. The slang sense may be influenced by terms such as middling and midwit.

cog

We need to retake mid.

(location, online gaming) The middle of the battlefield.

Everyone head mid.

(location, online gaming) To or into the middle of the battlefield.


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.


craps

From Louisiana Creole craps, a corruption of English crabs.

“As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps ! If I were as free of spavins, ringbone, saddle-galls, and splints as you are, I'd have that nanny-goat in here, hog-tie her, flop her and let the boy help himself. […]”

1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter XII, in The Understanding Heart:

Start off the dice-rollin' mats for craps to cee-lo / With side-bets, I roll a deuce, nothin' below

1994, “Memory Lane (Sittin’ in da Park)”, in Illmatic, performed by Nas:

(gambling, dice games) A game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap.


quartiere

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


fifth slip

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


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.


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 class

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

első osztályú

cricket: relating to a first class match


first session

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


first slip

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


kings

(card games) A drinking game that uses playing cards.


forcing

(bridge) Pertaining to a bid which requires partner to continue bidding rather than pass.


Boston

→ Abenaki: Pastonki, pastoni

→ Klamath-Modoc: basdin

→ Lushootseed: pastəd

→ Mohawk: Wáhston

The US city is named after the English town (from which several prominent colonists had come), which itself is sometimes said to be named as a contraction of Botolph's town or Botolph's stone (the name Botolph itself coming from Old English Botwulf, from boda + wulf). However, this is uncertain.

(card games) An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.


Boston

(card games) In the card game spades, a bid of all 13 tricks.


slough

en-verb

slough (third-person singular simple present sloughs, present participle sloughing, simple past and past participle sloughed)

sloughs (present singular third-person)
sloughing (participle present)
sloughed (participle past)
sloughed (past)
sluff (alternative)

From Middle English slogh, slugh, slouh, from Proto-Germanic *sluk-, perhaps related to *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”) (compare Gothic 𐍃𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌰𐌽 (sliupan)).
Akin to Middle Low German slô (“sheath, skin on a hoof”). Perhaps also related with Old Saxon slūk (“snakeskin”), Middle High German slūch, whence German Schlauch (“waterskin, hose”).

cog

East sloughed a heart.


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 singular)
stringerésti (conditional second-person singular)
stringerèbbe (conditional singular third-person)
stringerébbe (conditional singular third-person)
stringerémmo (conditional first-person plural)
stringeréste (conditional plural second-person)
stringerèbbero (conditional plural third-person)
stringerébbero (conditional plural 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)
strignere (alternative)

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]


alt

Of these alts, how many of them are a gender other than your own?

1996, Jonobie D. Baker, “Survey of MUSHers.”, in rec.games.mud.tiny (Usenet):

Yes, I have many alts, and no, none of the others have any unusual capitalisation.

2000, KaVir, “Code Bases - why release buggy crap?”, in alt.mud (Usenet):

(Internet slang, gaming) An alternate or secondary character.


denaro

denari (plural)
danaio (alternative)
danaro (alternative)

From Latin dēnārius, via a non-Tuscan dialect where Latin /rj/ yields /r/.


console

(gaming) a video game console, a console, especially a non-portable one


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.


promote

en-verb

promote (third-person singular simple present promotes, present participle promoting, simple past and past participle promoted)

promotes (present singular third-person)
promoting (participle present)
promoted (participle past)
promoted (past)

From Latin prōmōtus, perfect passive participle of prōmoveō (“move forward, advance”).

Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.

(transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.

umwandeln

replace a pawn by a different chess piece


territory

en-noun

territory (countable and uncountable, plural territories)

/ˈtɛɹɪˌtɔɹi/

Inherited from Middle English territorie, from Latin territōrium.

inh+

Scotland had the territory and the momentum, forcing England into almost twice as many tackles and rattling them repeatedly at set-pieces.

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

(sports and games) The part of the playing field or board over which a player or team has control.


five-for

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


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)
follow-on (alternative)

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


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.


full toss

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


knap

knap (third-person singular simple present knaps, present participle knapping, simple past and past participle knapped)

knaps (present singular third-person)
knapping (participle present)
knapped (participle past)
knapped (past)
knap (infinitive)

The verb is derived from Late Middle English knappen (“to strike (something)”); further etymology uncertain, probably related to Middle Dutch knappen, cnappen (“to break (something) with a sharp sound, snap; to crack or crackle”) (modern Dutch knappen), probably ultimately onomatopoeic.
The noun is derived from Late Middle English knap, knappe (“sharp blow, strike”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from the verb (see above), or related to an ancestor of Danish knep and Swedish knäpp (“a flick, rap, snap”), probably ultimately onomatopoeic.

napauttaa

(transitive) to say (something) crisply or sharply; (intransitive) to speak crisply or sharply

(gambling, chiefly dice games, obsolete) To cheat while gambling, especially at a dice game.


knap

'Tis your pence a piece, / […] / Preſto begon? or come aloft? VVhat vvay? / Doublets? or Knap? The Cog? lovv Dice? or high?

a. 1659 (date written), John Cleveland, “The Publick Faith”, in The Works of Mr. John Cleveland, […], London: […] R. Holt, for Obadiah Blagrave, […], published 1687, →OCLC, page 200:

And fights vvith Money-bags as bold, / As men vvith Sand-bags did of old: / […] Engages blind and ſenſeleſs Hap / 'Gainſt High, and Lovv, and Slur and Knap, […]

a. 1681 (date written), Samuel Butler, “Satyr”, in R[obert] Thyer, editor, The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1759, →OCLC, page 83, lines 45–46 and 51–52:

(figurative, gambling, chiefly dice games, obsolete) A method of cheating at a dice game.


good length

(cricket) The area on a pitch considered to be the best place to pitch the ball in order to either get the batter out, or restrict them 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.


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.


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. Compare Dutch geul.
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


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.


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.


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.


conkers

(British, games) A game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a "conker") suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed.


Bunsen

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

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


grand slam

(bridge) The bid and winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand.

grand chelem

(bridge) the winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand

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

gran eslam

(baseball) a home run with the bases loaded


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.


half volley

half volleys (plural)
half-volley (alternative)

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


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.


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.


hat trick

hat tricks (plural)
hattrick (alternative)
hat-trick (alternative)

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.

driekuns

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


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.


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.


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 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.


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.


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.


roly-poly

en-noun

roly-poly (countable and uncountable, plural roly-polys or roly-polies)

roly-polys (plural)
roly-polies (plural)
rolly polly (alternative)
rolly-poly (alternative)
rolly-pooly (alternative)

/ˌɹəʊlɪˈpəʊli/

The noun is apparently derived from roll (“to turn over and over”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’), reduplicated with a change of the initial consonant. Compare rolly (“having the ability to roll, rolling”, adjective), which is attested since the 19th century.
Sense 1.7 (“mischievous or worthless person”) is possibly influenced by poll (“head; (archaic) scalp; (by extension) person”).
The adjective and adverb are attested later than the noun, and so are probably derived from it.

suffix

Often I did view the shade / Where once a nest my eyes did fill, / And often mark'd the place I play'd / At "roly poly" down the hill.

1821, John Clare, “[Poems.] Recollections after a Ramble.”, in The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems, volume I, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […]; and E[dward] Drury, […], →OCLC, stanza 8, page 128:

(uncountable, historical) An activity or game involving rolling.

(games) A game involving people (usually children) rolling down a slope.

kierimisleikki

This is one of the games prohibited by Edward IV.; and received its denomination from being played with one half of a sphere of wood. Half-bowl is practised to this day in Hertfordshire, where it is commonly called rolly-polly; and it is best performed upon the floor of a room, especially if it be smooth and level. There are fifteen small pins of a conical form required for this pastime; […] the bowl, when delivered, must pass above the pins, and round the end-pin, without the circle, before it beats any of them down; if not, the cast is forfeited: […]

1841, Joseph Strutt, William Hone, chapter VII, in The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. […], new edition, London: […] Thomas Tegg, […], →OCLC, book III (Pastimes usually Exercised in Towns and Cities, or Places Adjoining to Them), section XII (Half-bowl), page 274:

ROLY-POLY, or NINE HOLES, a game of ball played by any number of persons, generally nine. […] The Roller tries to roll the ball into one of the holes. If he makes three consecutive misses, a pebble is placed in his hole. […] Roly Poly is a very old English game. It is sometimes played in England with hats instead of holes, and it is then often called Egg Hat. In this case the ball is pitched instead of rolled.

1890, John D[enison] Champlin [Jr.], Arthur E[lmore] Bostwick, “Roly-poly, or Nine Holes”, in The Young Folk’s Cyclopædia of Games and Sports, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, pages 585–586:

"Gee, we can play Roly Poly," argued John. "We can play right in this room." / "Sure," agreed Bobby. "All we'll have to do is to make our triangle and bowling lines."

1927, Ellsworth Collings, “Education as Growth”, in School Supervision in Theory and Practice, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell Company, →OCLC, part I (The Improvement of Supervision Theory), page 6:

(games) A game in which balls are rolled along the floor to knock down pins, or bowled into holes, or thrown into hats placed on the ground.

palloleikki

game in which balls are bowled into holes or thrown into hats placed on the ground

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforeſaid, That if any Perſon or Perſons whatſoever ſhall, after the ſaid Twenty fourth Day of June, One thouſand ſeven hundred and forty five, play at the ſaid Game of Roulet, otherwiſe Roly-poly, or at any Game of Chance with Cards or Dice, already prohibited by Law, every ſuch Perſon or Perſons ſo offending, ſhall alſo incur the Pains and Penalties, and be liable to ſuch Proſecution, as is directed in and by an Act made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of His preſent Majeſty, intituled, An Act for the more effectual preventing exceſſive and deceitful Gaming.

1744, “An Act to Explain, Amend, and Make More Effectual the Laws in Being, to Prevent Excessive and Deceitful Gaming; and to Restrain and Prevent the Excessive Increase of Horse Races”, in Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, Decimo Octavo. […] [In the Year of the Reign of George II. King of Great Britain, France, & Ireland, the Eighteenth …], London: […] Thomas Baskett, printer to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty; and by the assigns of Robert Baskett, published 1745, →OCLC, section 2, page 712:

(gaming) Synonym of roulette (“a game of chance in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game”)


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.


energia

energia (nominative singular)
energiat (nominative plural)
energia (accusative nominative singular)
energiat (accusative nominative plural)
energian (accusative genitive singular)
energiat (accusative genitive plural)
energian (genitive singular)
energioiden (genitive plural)
energioitten (genitive plural)
energiain (genitive plural rare)
energiaa (partitive singular)
energioita (partitive plural)
energiassa (inessive singular)
energioissa (inessive plural)
energiasta (elative singular)
energioista (elative plural)
energiaan (illative singular)
energioihin (illative plural)
energialla (adessive singular)
energioilla (adessive plural)
energialta (ablative singular)
energioilta (ablative plural)
energialle (allative singular)
energioille (allative plural)
energiana (essive singular)
energioina (essive plural)
energiaksi (singular translative)
energioiksi (plural translative)
energiatta (abessive singular)
energioitta (abessive plural)
energioin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
energiani (nominative singular)
energiani (nominative plural)
energiani (accusative nominative singular)
energiani (accusative nominative plural)
energiani (accusative genitive singular)
energiani (accusative genitive plural)
energiani (genitive singular)
energioideni (genitive plural)
energioitteni (genitive plural)
energiaini (genitive plural rare)
energiaani (partitive singular)
energioitani (partitive plural)
energiassani (inessive singular)
energioissani (inessive plural)
energiastani (elative singular)
energioistani (elative plural)
energiaani (illative singular)
energioihini (illative plural)
energiallani (adessive singular)
energioillani (adessive plural)
energialtani (ablative singular)
energioiltani (ablative plural)
energialleni (allative singular)
energioilleni (allative plural)
energianani (essive singular)
energioinani (essive plural)
energiakseni (singular translative)
energioikseni (plural translative)
energiattani (abessive singular)
energioittani (abessive plural)
energioineni (comitative plural)
energiasi (nominative singular)
energiasi (nominative plural)
energiasi (accusative nominative singular)
energiasi (accusative nominative plural)
energiasi (accusative genitive singular)
energiasi (accusative genitive plural)
energiasi (genitive singular)
energioidesi (genitive plural)
energioittesi (genitive plural)
energiaisi (genitive plural rare)
energiaasi (partitive singular)
energioitasi (partitive plural)
energiassasi (inessive singular)
energioissasi (inessive plural)
energiastasi (elative singular)
energioistasi (elative plural)
energiaasi (illative singular)
energioihisi (illative plural)
energiallasi (adessive singular)
energioillasi (adessive plural)
energialtasi (ablative singular)
energioiltasi (ablative plural)
energiallesi (allative singular)
energioillesi (allative plural)
energianasi (essive singular)
energioinasi (essive plural)
energiaksesi (singular translative)
energioiksesi (plural translative)
energiattasi (abessive singular)
energioittasi (abessive plural)
energioinesi (comitative plural)
energiamme (nominative singular)
energiamme (nominative plural)
energiamme (accusative nominative singular)
energiamme (accusative nominative plural)
energiamme (accusative genitive singular)
energiamme (accusative genitive plural)
energiamme (genitive singular)
energioidemme (genitive plural)
energioittemme (genitive plural)
energiaimme (genitive plural rare)
energiaamme (partitive singular)
energioitamme (partitive plural)
energiassamme (inessive singular)
energioissamme (inessive plural)
energiastamme (elative singular)
energioistamme (elative plural)
energiaamme (illative singular)
energioihimme (illative plural)
energiallamme (adessive singular)
energioillamme (adessive plural)
energialtamme (ablative singular)
energioiltamme (ablative plural)
energiallemme (allative singular)
energioillemme (allative plural)
energianamme (essive singular)
energioinamme (essive plural)
energiaksemme (singular translative)
energioiksemme (plural translative)
energiattamme (abessive singular)
energioittamme (abessive plural)
energioinemme (comitative plural)
energianne (nominative singular)
energianne (nominative plural)
energianne (accusative nominative singular)
energianne (accusative nominative plural)
energianne (accusative genitive singular)
energianne (accusative genitive plural)
energianne (genitive singular)
energioidenne (genitive plural)
energioittenne (genitive plural)
energiainne (genitive plural rare)
energiaanne (partitive singular)
energioitanne (partitive plural)
energiassanne (inessive singular)
energioissanne (inessive plural)
energiastanne (elative singular)
energioistanne (elative plural)
energiaanne (illative singular)
energioihinne (illative plural)
energiallanne (adessive singular)
energioillanne (adessive plural)
energialtanne (ablative singular)
energioiltanne (ablative plural)
energiallenne (allative singular)
energioillenne (allative plural)
energiananne (essive singular)
energioinanne (essive plural)
energiaksenne (singular translative)
energioiksenne (plural translative)
energiattanne (abessive singular)
energioittanne (abessive plural)
energioinenne (comitative plural)
energiansa (nominative singular)
energiansa (nominative plural)
energiansa (accusative nominative singular)
energiansa (accusative nominative plural)
energiansa (accusative genitive singular)
energiansa (accusative genitive plural)
energiansa (genitive singular)
energioidensa (genitive plural)
energioittensa (genitive plural)
energiainsa (genitive plural rare)
energiaansa (partitive singular)
energioitaan (partitive plural)
energioitansa (partitive plural)
energiassaan (inessive singular)
energiassansa (inessive singular)
energioissaan (inessive plural)
energioissansa (inessive plural)
energiastaan (elative singular)
energiastansa (elative singular)
energioistaan (elative plural)
energioistansa (elative plural)
energiaansa (illative singular)
energioihinsa (illative plural)
energiallaan (adessive singular)
energiallansa (adessive singular)
energioillaan (adessive plural)
energioillansa (adessive plural)
energialtaan (ablative singular)
energialtansa (ablative singular)
energioiltaan (ablative plural)
energioiltansa (ablative plural)
energialleen (allative singular)
energiallensa (allative singular)
energioilleen (allative plural)
energioillensa (allative plural)
energianaan (essive singular)
energianansa (essive singular)
energioinaan (essive plural)
energioinansa (essive plural)
energiakseen (singular translative)
energiaksensa (singular translative)
energioikseen (plural translative)
energioiksensa (plural translative)
energiattaan (abessive singular)
energiattansa (abessive singular)
energioittaan (abessive plural)
energioittansa (abessive plural)
energioineen (comitative plural)
energioinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈe̞ne̞rˌɡiɑ̝]

Ultimately from Latin energia, from Ancient Greek ἐνέργεια (enérgeia).


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.


chow

Phono-semantic matching of Chinese 吃 (chī, literally “to eat”), influenced by the “food” sense of Etymology 1 above.

psm

(mahjong) A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.


chow

en-verb

chow (third-person singular simple present chows, present participle chowing, simple past and past participle chowed)

chows (present singular third-person)
chowing (participle present)
chowed (participle past)
chowed (past)

[…] while the adversary on his right will repeatedly bury in the discard the very tiles he wishes to chow but can't.

2007, Eleanor Noss Whitney, A Mah Jong Handbook: How to Play, Score, and Win, page 154:

(mahjong) To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.


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.


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.


two-up

From the image of a wily digger playing two-up, to a prime minister at the track or the tables, the construction of gambling is as an activity quintessentially Australian.

1993, Ernest Hunter, Aboriginal Health and History: Power and Prejudice in Remote Australia, page 242:

The origins of two-up remain obscure. It probably derived from ‘pitch and toss’, a game British youths had played since the late eighteenth century. In Australia pitch and toss was first recorded in the 1850s on the Victorian goldfields, and in New Zealand as a street game on the West Coast in the early 1870s. Two-up evolved as a variant, becoming popular in Australia in the early 1890s, and in New Zealand a year or two later, as labouring men from both countries traversed the Tasman Sea in search of work.

1994, David Malcolm Grant, On a Roll: A History of Gambling and Lotteries in New Zealand, page 66:

Perversely, Scorps chooses not to punt on Anzac Day and won′t go near two-up, probably because his losses will be too public.

2008, Sam De Brito, The Lost Boys, page 280:

(Australia, New Zealand, games) A game of chance, played by betting on the outcome of two pennies thrown in the air.


zwischenzug

From German Zwischenzug, from zwischen (“between”) + Zug (“move”).

2002, Eric Schiller, Standard Chess Openings, second edition, Cardoza Publishing, New York; Game (132).
After 12.g4 Be6; Black's 11th move becomes a zwischenzug to provoke another White pawn weakness.

(chess) A tactical move which interrupts the execution of the current plan.


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)


oware

awari (alternative)
owari (alternative)
wari (alternative)
warri (alternative)

(games) A board game of the mancala family which originated in Africa, and is reputedly the oldest game in the world.


fumble

fumbles (plural)
famble (alternative)
fimble (alternative)

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.


reader

From Middle English reder, redar, redere, redare, from Old English rēdere, rǣdere (“a reader; scholar; diviner”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādāri, equivalent to read + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Räider (“advisor”), Dutch rader (“advisor”), German Rater (“advisor”).

LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses.

1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations, Gambling and Organized Crime, Parts 1, 2, 3. 87-1, page 286:

Of the 150,000,000 decks of cards sold each year in America, Scarne estimates that 1 percent get marked at some point. Yet, as he discovered in his 1972 gambling survey, only 2 percent of average players have any idea of how to detect these "readers."

1991, John Bowyer Bell, Barton Whaley, Cheating and Deception, page 185:

(slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.


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.


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.


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


hangman

en-noun

hangman (countable and uncountable, plural hangmen)

From Middle English hangman, hongman, hangeman, equivalent to hang + -man.

(uncountable, games) A guessing game where one has to guess the word an opponent is thinking of by guessing one letter at a time, and involving the gradual drawing of a stick figure hanging from the gallows.


quad

Shortened, via clipping or abbreviation, from various English terms. Ultimately related to Latin quattuor (“4”); compare quadri-, quadruple.
The typography senses are from the abbreviation quad. for obsolete quadrat; the keyboard command comes from the verb sense.

Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).

(chess) A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.


on time

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

Smith beat Jones on time.

(chess) By a player's running out of time.


GM

GM (countable and uncountable, plural GMs)

(countable, chess) Initialism of Grandmaster; initialism of grandmaster.


opener

オープナー

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

(card games) The player who starts the betting.

(card games, in the plural) Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting.

avauskortti

openers: cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting

(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.


outpost

(chess) A square protected by a pawn that is in or near the enemy's stronghold.


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.


keyhole

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


behind the arc

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

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


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


traveling

travelings (plural)
travelling (alternative)

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


double dribble

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


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.


layup

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


reverse layup

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


lay-in

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


scoop shot

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

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


held ball

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


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


knockdown

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.


Junge

de-noun

Junge m (weak, genitive Jungen, plural Jungen or Jungs or Jungens, diminutive Jünglein n or Jüngelchen n or Jüngchen n or (rare, often poetic) Jüngelein n)

Jungen (genitive)
Jungen (plural)
Jungs (plural)
Jungens (plural)
Jünglein (diminutive neuter)
Jüngelchen (diminutive neuter)
Jüngchen (diminutive neuter)
Jüngelein (diminutive neuter often poetic rare)
Junge (nominative singular)
Jungen (definite nominative plural)
Jungs (colloquial definite nominative plural)
Jungens (colloquial definite nominative plural)
Jungen (genitive singular)
Jungen (definite genitive plural)
Jungs (colloquial definite genitive plural)
Jungens (colloquial definite genitive plural)
Jungen (dative singular)
Jungen (dative definite plural)
Jungs (colloquial dative definite plural)
Jungens (colloquial dative definite plural)
Jungen (accusative singular)
Jungen (accusative definite plural)
Jungs (accusative colloquial definite plural)
Jungens (accusative colloquial definite plural)
Jung (alternative)

Fixed nominalisation of Middle High German jung (“young”), from Old High German jung (“young”).
Already occasionally in Middle High German [Term?], later gaining a fixed noun form based on its weak nominative inflection (giving ein Junge instead of ein Junger). The recognition as the normal standard term for “boy” is based on Central and Low German usage and has only fully asserted itself during the 20th century (compare Knabe). The now quite common plural form Jungs (Jungens) is also from German Low German [Term?]. Cognate with English young (noun).


ludar

head

ludar (present tense ludas, past tense ludis, future tense ludos, imperative ludez, conditional ludus)

ludas (present)
ludis (past)
tense ludos (future)
ludez (imperative)
ludus (conditional)
ludar (infinitive present)
ludir (infinitive past)
ludor (future infinitive)
ludas (present)
ludis (past)
ludos (future)
ludus (conditional present)
ludez (imperative present)
ludanta (active adjective participle present)
ludinta (active adjective participle past)
ludonta (active adjective future participle)
ludante (active adverbial participle present)
ludinte (active adverbial participle past)
ludonte (active adverbial future participle)
ludanto (active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
ludinto (active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
ludonto (active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
ludanti (active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
ludinti (active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
ludonti (active future noun-from-verb participle plural)

(intransitive, games, sports) to play (with)


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.


kiss chase

(games) A children's game similar to tag, the object being for the person who is "it" to catch and kiss another of the participants, who then subsequently becomes "it".


walking stick

walking sticks (plural)
walking-stick (alternative)
walkingstick (alternative)

(card games, slang) A playing card with the rank of seven.

seiska

slang: playing card with the rank of seven


pung

(mahjong) A set of three identical tiles.


plena

(games) a game similar to bingo popular around Christmastime


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.


choke

en-verb

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)
choak (alternative)
choake (alternative)
chock (alternative)

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.


follow suit

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

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

(card games) To play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card.


reject

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.


manhattan

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


tactic

Borrowed from New Latin tactica, from Ancient Greek τακτικός (taktikós, “fit for ordering”), from τάσσω (tássō, “to order, to arrange”).

der

(chess) A sequence of moves that limits the opponent's options and results in an immediate and tangible advantage, typically in the form of material.


counter

→ Japanese: カウンター

→ Korean: 카운터 (kaunteo)

→ Malay: kaunter

desc

→ 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


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.


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)

pancakes (plural)
pan cake (alternative)

→ 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.


semicircle

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


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)


farmhand

(baseball) A player in the minor leagues.


willow

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.


scrum-half

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


lineout

lineouts (plural)
line-out (alternative)

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


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)


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.


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.


black jack

black jack (nominative singular)
black jacki (nominative plural)
black jacka (genitive singular)
black jacków (genitive plural)
black jackowi (dative singular)
black jackom (dative plural)
black jacka (accusative singular)
black jacki (accusative plural)
black jackiem (instrumental singular)
black jackami (instrumental plural)
black jacku (locative singular)
black jackach (locative plural)
black jacku (singular vocative)
black jacki (plural vocative)

/blɛɡˈd͡ʐɛk/

Unadapted borrowing from English blackjack.

ubor

(card games) Alternative spelling of blackjack


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.


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.


apuntar

es-verb

apuntar (first-person singular present apunto, first-person singular preterite apunté, past participle apuntado)

apunto (first-person present singular)
apunté (first-person preterite singular)
apuntado (participle past)
apuntar (infinitive)
apuntando (gerund)
apuntado (masculine participle past singular)
apuntada (feminine participle past singular)
apuntados (masculine participle past plural)
apuntadas (feminine participle past plural)
apunto (first-person indicative present singular)
apuntas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
apuntás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
apunta (indicative present singular third-person)
apuntamos (first-person indicative plural present)
apuntáis (indicative plural present second-person)
apuntan (indicative plural present third-person)
apuntaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
apuntabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
apuntaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
apuntábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
apuntabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
apuntaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
apunté (first-person indicative preterite singular)
apuntaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
apuntó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
apuntamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
apuntasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
apuntaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
apuntaré (first-person future indicative singular)
apuntarás (future indicative second-person singular)
apuntará (future indicative singular third-person)
apuntaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
apuntaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
apuntarán (future indicative plural third-person)
apuntaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
apuntarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
apuntaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
apuntaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
apuntaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
apuntarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
apunte (first-person present singular subjunctive)
apuntes (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
apuntés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
apunte (present singular subjunctive third-person)
apuntemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
apuntéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
apunten (plural present subjunctive third-person)
apuntara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
apuntaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
apuntara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
apuntáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
apuntarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
apuntaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
apuntase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
apuntases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
apuntase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
apuntásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
apuntaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
apuntasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
apuntare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
apuntares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
apuntare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
apuntáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
apuntareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
apuntaren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
apunta (imperative informal second-person singular)
apuntá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
apunte (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
apunte (imperative singular third-person)
apuntemos (first-person imperative plural)
apuntad (imperative plural second-person)
apunten (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
apunten (imperative plural third-person)
apuntes (imperative negative second-person singular)
apunte (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
apunte (imperative negative singular third-person)
apuntemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
apuntéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
apunten (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
apunten (imperative negative plural third-person)
apuntarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
apuntarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
apuntarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
apuntarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
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apúntale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
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apúntense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)

From a- + punto + -ar or a- + punta + -ar. Compare English appoint.

(transitive, card games) to bet, to put up money, to stake (only in certain card games)


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:


Blatt

head

Blatt n (plural Bletter, diminutive Blettli)

From Middle High German blat, plat, from Old High German blat, from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą. Cognate with German Blatt, Dutch blad, English blade, Icelandic blað, Swedish blad.


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.


straff

straff (indefinite nominative singular)
straffs (genitive indefinite singular)
straffen (definite nominative singular)
straffens (definite genitive singular)
straffar (indefinite nominative plural)
straffars (genitive indefinite plural)
straffarna (definite nominative plural)
straffarnas (definite genitive plural)


back out

back out (third-person singular simple present backs out, present participle backing out, simple past and past participle backed out)

backs out (present singular third-person)
backing out (participle present)
backed out (participle past)
backed out (past)

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

1921, Henry Luttrell, Crockford's : Or Life in the West Sketch No. III
Whatever you throw is your chance. I called five for the main, which is the out chance, and threw seven to it, which is the in chance. If I throw five first, I lose, and if seven I win. You can back me in by betting the odds, or you can back me out, by taking the odds, the bank answers either way.

See also: sell short


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.


gank

gank (third-person singular simple present ganks, present participle ganking, simple past and past participle ganked)

ganks (present singular third-person)
ganking (participle present)
ganked (participle past)
ganked (past)

Our group totally ganked this guy.

(transitive, Internet, online gaming, slang) To kill much weaker players in an online video game in such a way that they cannot defend themselves.


max

max (indefinite nominative singular)
max (genitive indefinite singular)
maxen (definite nominative singular)
maxens (definite genitive singular)
maxar (indefinite nominative plural)
maxars (genitive indefinite plural)
maxarna (definite nominative plural)
maxarnas (definite genitive plural)


batting

en-noun

batting (countable and uncountable, plural battings)

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


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.