speed skiing

(skiing) The speed events of formal alpine skiing, the speed disciplines of super-G and downhill. (The technical events of the sport of alpine skiing are slalom and giant slalom)

(skiing) Alternative spelling of speedskiing


speedskiing

(skiing) Alternative spelling of speed skiing (super-G and downhill of formal alpine skiing)

speed skiing

(skiing) A discipline of skiing not part of formal alpine skiing, involving skiing as quickly as possible down a straight piste; where the skier tries to set the fastest trap speed at a spot or lowest time across a zone with the highest speeds.


technical skiing

technical discipline
technical discipline

(skiing) The technical events of alpine skiing, the technical disciplines of giant slalom and slalom. (The speed events of the sport of alpine skiing are downhill and super-G)


alpine skier

(skiing) A skier who specializes in alpine skiing (the disciplines of super-G, giant slalom, slalom, downhill)


downhill skiing

cross-country skiing

skiing that primarily involves skiing across flatland

(sports) A formal sports discipline in alpine skiing, involving primarily going down a piste with few turns.

speedskiing

not part of formal alpine skiing, involving going down a straight course


downhill skier

(sports) An alpine skier who specializes in the discipline of downhill skiing (downhill).


cross-country skier

en-noun

cross-country skier (plural cross-country skiers)

cross-country skiing
cross-country skiing

(skiing) A skier who participates in cross-country skiing.

biegacz narciarski

someone who participates in cross-country skiing


GOE

(sports) Initialism of grade of execution.


body wire

(fencing) The insulated wire that runs under a fencer's jacket, connecting the Electrical Competition weapon to the reel, and thence to the scoring machine.


sentiment du fer

Borrowed from French sentiment du fer (literally “feeling of the iron”).

bor

(fencing) The ability to feel along the length of a fencing sword through holding only the weapon's grip, a quality of an experienced fencer.


open the batting

en-verb

open the batting (third-person singular simple present opens the batting, present participle opening the batting, simple past and past participle opened the batting)

opens the batting (present singular third-person)
opening the batting (participle present)
opened the batting (participle past)
opened the batting (past)

(cricket) To be one of a pair of cricketers (batsmen) that start a side's innings, who are also known as the opening pair or openers.


bisweptual

From bi- + sweep (“rowing style in which each rower has only one oar and rows on one side”) + -ual, in analogy to bisexual.

affix

(US, rowing) Able to row sweep on either port or starboard with equal or near-equal proficiency.


bisweptual

(US, rowing) A person who is bisweptual.


way enough

weigh enough (alternative)
way 'nuff (alternative)

(Canada, US, rowing) A coxswain's order for rowers to cease rowing immediately.


way enough

en-verb

way enough (third-person singular simple present way enoughs, present participle way enoughing, simple past and past participle way enoughed)

way enoughs (present singular third-person)
way enoughing (participle present)
way enoughed (participle past)
way enoughed (past)
weigh enough (alternative)
way 'nuff (alternative)

(Canada, US, rowing) To stop rowing after a "way enough" command.


icecross

From ice + -cross.
Formed in analogy to skicross, boardercross, BMX, motocross; and being raced on ice.

(skating) An ice skating sport, involving racing over an obstacle course similar to that found in snowboardcross, skiercross, or BMX.

icecross downhill

a discipline of icecross, involving a downhill course, like that of boarder-X or skier-X, except on ice instead of snow


wolf jump

(gymnastics) A kind of jump where the knees remain together but one leg is bent while the other is stretched out.


butt bag

An alpine hammer, which has seen better days but never ice, slots into his holster. A wire brush, a nut pick, jumars and etriers all clip onto his harness and his butt bag (belay seat) goes into his pocket.

1986, New Zealand Alpine Journal - Volume 39, page 113:

Some continuously steep routes with numerous hanging belays necessitate a belay seat or butt bag. A butt bag with three points of suspension is more comfortable than a two-point bag.

1999, Mark Twight, James Martin, Extreme Alpinism: Climbing Light, High, and Fast, →ISBN:

If you're tackling a super-steep rock route, then consider taking along, or making, a nylon 'butt bag' – a fabric seat that will take some of the weight off of your harness.

2016, Andy Kirkpatrick, 1001 Climbing Tips, →ISBN:

With nearly no moves easier than 5.8 or harder than 5.10a, and with no rest ledges, it is heaven for 5.10 climbers, as long as you bring a butt bag or a comfortable harness for the hanging belays.

2004, Greg Barnes, Larry DeAngelo, Red Rocks Climbing: SuperTopos:

(mountaineering) A seat attached to ropes on which a climber can sit while belaying.


rush defence

He [Finn Russell] fashioned the first try after 15 minutes, moments after Owen Farrell had equalised Greig Laidlaw’s opening penalty, with a chip in behind the rush defence.

2018 February 24, Paul Rees, “Finn Russell masterminds historic Scotland victory over England”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2018-04-22:


Calcutta Cup

The match was only a few minutes old when the second-row Jonny Gray squared up to [Dylan] Hartley and invited Courtney Lawes to join in. The message was clear: a side that had not won the Calcutta Cup for 10 years were going to fight for everything.

(rugby) A trophy won by the winner of the match between England and Scotland in the Six Nations competition.


dark blue

en-noun

dark blue (countable and uncountable, plural dark blues)

Coordinate term: light blue

The university did not touch my world directly but you couldn't be a boy in Oxford without supporting the dark blues against the Cambridge light blues, in the boat race […]

2018, Will Wyatt, Oxford Boy: A Post-War Townie Childhood:

(UK, rowing) A member of the Oxford rowing team.


light blue

light blue (countable and uncountable, plural light blues)

From Middle English light blewe, equivalent to light + blue.

Coordinate term: dark blue

(UK, rowing) A member of the Cambridge rowing team.


weight for age

[H]e would merely have remarked on its elegant hocks and golden horn and suggested that she enter it weight for age at Flemington.

2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 243:

(horse racing) Handicapped according to the age of the racehorse competing (and certain other factors).


weight for age

"What did I say about Nightcap last week? Here he's won the Weight for Age at twelve to one."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 140:


knifehand

(martial arts, often attributive) A strike using the part of the hand opposite the thumb (from the little finger to the wrist); a karate chop.


cement hands

(sports, informal) Hands that do not catch or grip well because they are too tense.


para-nordic

para nordic skiing
para nordic skiing#English

(skiing) Ellipsis of para nordic skiing.


para nordic skiing

(skiing) A parasport, an adapted form of Nordic skiing.


tuck up

en-verb

tuck up (third-person singular simple present tucks up, present participle tucking up, simple past and past participle tucked up)

tucks up (present singular third-person)
tucking up (participle present)
tucked up (participle past)
tucked up (past)

(intransitive, boxing) To protect one's face by covering it with the gloves


go to bat

go to bat (third-person singular simple present goes to bat, present participle going to bat, simple past went to bat, past participle gone to bat)

goes to bat (present singular third-person)
going to bat (participle present)
went to bat (past)
gone to bat (participle past)

Turner hit to short right and took his first, and then his second by a wild throw of Winslow, but was trapped between second and third and put out by Stearns. Detroit thus retired without recording a tally, and the University again went to bat.

1875 June, University of Michigan, “Various Topics”, in The Chronicle, page 201:

Robinson went to bat for the last time that day in the eighth inning, singling for his fourth straight hit.

1968 December, A.S. Young, “Jackie Opens the Door — Wide!”, in Ebony, page 136:

(baseball) To be the individual or team that is currently batting; play offense.


emergency goalie

en-noun

emergency goalie (plural emergency goalies)

(ice hockey) A goaltender who will play for either team in the case that their goalies are unable to play.


goalieing

(ice hockey, rare, colloquial) goalkeeping


frontstretch

frontstretches (plural)
front stretch (alternative)
front-stretch (alternative)

The new track will be built of a sandy loam running surface providing improved turns and a layout with new spirals to ease entry into the turns. The frontstretch and backstretch will be lengthened by 660 feet.

1991, Harness Horse - Volume 56, Issues 27-34, page 11:

D-shaped ovals are modified ovals that have one long sweeping arc of a turn for a frontstretch instead of a straightaway.

2009, Mark Martin, NASCAR For Dummies, →ISBN:

In addition to often scheduling the autograph sessions, speedway officials would open the frontstretch gate and allow fans to come onto the track and the grassy frontstretch apron after an event.

2017, Deb Williams, Charlotte Motor Speedway, →ISBN, page 24:

(athletics, horse racing, car racing) The straight (or gently curved) part of a racetrack, running track, etc. where the race begins.


game ball

game balls (plural)
gameball (alternative)

(squash) The state of play when the server can win the game by scoring one more point.


call an audible

en-verb

call an audible (third-person singular simple present calls an audible, present participle calling an audible, simple past and past participle called an audible)

calls an audible (present singular third-person)
calling an audible (participle present)
called an audible (participle past)
called an audible (past)

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


V-cut

Like the jab, the V-cut is used to get a defender off balance or out of position and to thereby give the offensive player the advantage.

2012, Morgan Wootten, Joe Wootten, Coaching Basketball Successfully, 3rd edition, page 109:

If you make a V-cut and come back for the ball, the defender can't get into the passing lane.

2013, Don Zimmerman, Peter England, Men's Lacrosse, page 96:

(sports) An evasive manoeuvre in which a player makes a sharp turn to run back on themselves.


startlist

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(cycling) The list of cyclists who are to start a race


hero ball

(basketball, derogatory) A style of play where a single player tries to be the team's hero by taking and missing many low percentage shots.


offside rule

The computer-programming sense was coined by British computer scientist Peter Landin in 1966 and named after the rule in football (soccer).

coin

For the time the Etonians had their way, and it was not until 1867 that the Association adopted its present off-side rule, which provides that no man can be ' off-side ' unless there are less than three players of the opposite side in front of him when the ball is passed.

1889, Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes - Volume 20, page 277:

To the unintelligent or careless, the great stumbling-block is Law 6, known as the off-side rule. It is of itself a reflection on the bulk of young players that this particular provision is so little understood, or rather so misunderstood. The rule provides that when a player kicks the ball, or throws it in from touch, any one of the same side who at such moment of playing or throwing is nearer to the opponents' goal-line, is out of play, and may neither touch the ball himself, nor in any way whatever prevent other players from doing so, until the ball as been played, unless there are at such moment of kicking or throwing, at least three of his opponents nearer their own goal-line.

1897, Hoffmann, Every Boy's Book of Sport and Pastime, page 429:

The off-side rule in football states that no player may be closer to his opponents' goal than his last two opponents (usually a defender and the goalkeeper) and the ball at the time the ball is kicked forwards towards him.

2010, Will Rollason, We Are Playing Football, →ISBN:

(various team sports) The rule determining whether a player is in an offside position; that is, an illegal position ahead of the ball, puck, etc.

(soccer) The prohibition of teammates closer to the opponents' goal than the person kicking or throwing the ball unless there are two (originally three) opponents at least as close to their goal line.


octathlon

en-noun

octathlon (plural octathlons or octathla)

(athletics) A sporting event consisting of eight different sports or contests.

octatló

event in which contestants compete in eight different sports


Eurostep

They have seen it enough that they have come to understand that the Eurostep is a pretty good way to get around a defender, used so routinely that Harden's teammate Clint Capela, a center that rarely goes one-on-one, has employed it, though in his case, it should probably just be called a "Step."

2018 April 17, “Why James Harden isn't traveling on his step-back 3-pointers”, in Houston Chronicle:

(basketball) A basketball move in which an offensive player picks up their dribble, takes a step in one direction, and then quickly takes a second step in another direction.


base camp

base camps (plural)
basecamp (alternative)

(climbing) An encampment used temporarily for storing supplies and preparing for a larger activity, such as mountain climbing or hunting.

perusleiri

encampment used for preparing for a larger activity


stick the landing

en-verb

stick the landing (third-person singular simple present sticks the landing, present participle sticking the landing, simple past and past participle stuck the landing)

sticks the landing (present singular third-person)
sticking the landing (participle present)
stuck the landing (participle past)
stuck the landing (past)

Evidently by metaphor with sticking (placing quickly, thrusting) something quite accurately into a specific place. The term is not specific to aviation: see stick. Thus, this term evidently does not come from a reference to an aircraft's stick (“control stick”). It also does not involve the same metaphor as deadstick landing, whose stick is, originally, a wooden propeller that has lost its engine power.

When Park came down from his vault, sticking the landing perfectly upright and unwavering, a huge roar went up from the 13,596 spectators.

1988 September 24, Lawrie Mifflin, “Seoul Olympics: Soviet Men on Another Roll”, in New York Times, retrieved 2018-05-01:

Holland also did many of his own stunts, including his entry flip. Apparently the studio didn't want the 19-year-old to perform the flip, but the directing duo told him to go for it and he stuck the landing.

2016 May 10, Jack Shepherd, “Captain America: Civil War: How Tom Holland won over Marvel to become Spider-Man”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2018-05-01:

(sports) To complete a gymnastic or other athletic routine involving leaps, vaults, somersaults, etc. by landing firmly, solidly, and flawlessly on one's feet.


Juve

(informal, soccer) Juventus Football Club, a football team from Turin, Italy


Young Lions

(soccer) The members of an England national football youth team, such as the under-21, under-20, under-17 etc.


finger fan

During gaps of combinations, insert: 1. non-commitements to distract the opponent, or to improve positioning or the flow. 2. delicacy to score without destroying the overall balance and flow of the combination (finger jabs, finger fan, finger flicks, backhand, palm thrust).

1977 February, “Bruce Lee's Attack Strategies for Fighting (Part II)”, in Black Belt, volume 15, number 2, page 60:

In truth, people who require fine use of their hands in their work (artists, surgeons, typists) may favor using palm strikes and finger fans over the more demanding fist or single-finger strikes.

(martial arts) A blow delivered to the face with fingers spread.


discaire

From English disc (“vinyl gramophone or phonograph record”) + French -aire (suffix forming adjectives or nouns), modelled after disquaire. Disc is derived from French disque (“disk, record”), from Latin discus (“discus, quoit; dish shaped like a discus; disc of a sundial”), from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disc, quoit; dish; round mirror; reliquary”), probably of Pre-Greek origin.

der

[I]n the winter he used to go out dancing at five in the morning, and why? Because then the crowd had gone, the discaire was no longer playing for them, but for his friends, and that was the best dancing.

1978, Andrew Holleran, chapter 1, in Dancer from the Dance: […] (A Plume Book), New York, N.Y.: New American Library, published October 1986, →ISBN, page 25:

There was no one word to describe the variegated music we spent the night with. It was distinct enough for the discaire to begin a set quietly, build gradually to a climax, then let you down to start all over again. Do you remember that vanished custom?

1978 December, Andrew Holleran, “Dark Disco: A Lament”, in Christopher Street, volume 3, number 5, New York, N.Y.: That New Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC; republished in Michael Denneny, Charles Ortleb, and Thomas Steele, editors, The Christopher Street Reader, New York, N.Y.: Perigee Books, 1983 (1984 printing), →ISBN, page 74:

While the selection of tracks was a pretty accurate reflection of what was being played in discotheques at the time— [...] the "mixing" was pretty appalling (the songs just scrunched together as if they were on a crowded bus and there was no DJ credited on the album, not that any self-respecting discaire would have wanted to be associated with it) despite the claim that the album was "tight and distinctive … professional and polished … never contrived or stylized."

2005, Peter Shapiro, Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco, New York, N.Y.: Faber and Faber, →ISBN:

The DJ booth was built in a glass elevator so the discaires could play for four different dancefloors at once, gliding from one to another as they selected their tunes.

2006, Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, “Balearic Bryllyant”, in Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey, updated edition, New York, N.Y.: Headline Book Publishing, →ISBN:

The most famous club, Le Discotheque (French for "The Record Library"), opened on rue de la Huchette [in Paris] in 1941. With a discaire, or disc jockey, spinning jazz records all night long, the main attraction was dancing. Thumbing their noses at the occupying Reich, Le Discotheque and other underground clubs opened their doors to blacks and homosexuals, the same groups that would first embrace disco music 30 years later.

2007, “Why Disco Happened”, in Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges into Music (Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader), e-book edition, Ashland, Or.: Portable Press/The Bathroom Readers’ Institute, Printers Row Publishing Group, published November 2011, →ISBN:

A third, a discaire, also died; "That's absolutely the last disco funeral I'll ever attend," my friend reported. "You do know, don't you, that they played all his greatest tapes at the funeral."

2014, Edmund White, “New York City”, in States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 275:

(dance, music) Alternative spelling of disquaire (“disc jockey”)


TPR

en-noun

TPR (countable and uncountable, plural TPRs)

total player rating
total player rating#English

(baseball) Initialism of total player rating.


hit the board

en-verb

hit the board (third-person singular simple present hits the board, present participle hitting the board, simple past and past participle hit the board)

hits the board (present singular third-person)
hitting the board (participle present)
hit the board (participle past)
hit the board (past)

(horse racing) To finish in first, second, third or fourth place, thus appearing on the winners' board.


on the muscle

Tallhato was "on the muscle" going down the backside, attempting to run out. That's not the formula to beat a filly like Windy's Daughter.

1973, Chronicle of the Horse, volume 36, numbers 1-13, page 5:

I really wasn't able to rest him too much because he was on the muscle more than usual tonight.

1990, Harness Horse, volume 56, numbers 5-8, page 22:

(horse-racing) Of a horse: frisky and energetic, seeming keen to race.


AVG

(baseball) Abbreviation of batting average.


shakehand

(sports) A form of grip in table tennis in which the hand is in a position similar to that when shaking hands


teebox

teeboxes (plural)
tee-box (alternative)
tee box (alternative)

(golf) The area where play begins for a hole of golf.


pusher-thruster

(sumo) A rikishi who uses his weight to push and pummel his opponent, rather than holding the opponent's mawashi and attempting to throw him


snap-volley

Timo Werner produced a snap-volley from close range that flew into the crowd.

2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-05:

(sports) A snap volley; a volley taken quickly.


toe drag

The toe drag is an excellent way to control and protect the puck when moving around defenders. It is a fine motor skill maneuver that is exciting to watch when executed by the pros.

(ice hockey) A deke in which a player uses the toe of their stick to drag the puck back towards themselves and out of a defender's reach.


toe drag

toe drag (third-person singular simple present toe drags, present participle toe dragging, simple past and past participle toe dragged)

toe drags (present singular third-person)
toe dragging (participle present)
toe dragged (participle past)
toe dragged (past)


butcher boy

One of his [Casey Stengel's] more practical creations? The butcher boy, in which a batter would draw the infield in by squaring up to bunt ... only to quickly pull it back and take a short, downward swing at the ball.

2016 June 14, “The origin stories behind 11 uniquely strange baseball terms”, in MLB.com, retrieved 2018-06-26:

(US, baseball) Batting at a pitch with a short swing from a bunt position; a slash bunt, a slug bunt.


second yellow card

en-noun

second yellow card (plural second yellow cards)

Another fortuitous event - the suspension of Garre after receiving a second yellow card - removed a classic left back from the scene and permitted the entry of Julio Jorge Olarticoechea, a prototypical defender with the ability to play as a midfielder and even an attacker.

1996, Andrés Cantor, Daniel Arcucci, Goooal!: A Celebration of Soccer:

He will miss the Joburg game after collecting a stupid second yellow card. Just what was he thinking, deliberately handling the ball in the opponent's half?

2005, Drum: A Magazine of Africa for Africa, page 106:

If McCall had been incensed about Varga escaping a second yellow card in the first half, he was much quieter when Billy Dodds got involved in an off-the-ball incident with Henrik Larsson early in the second half.

2012, Krys Kujawa, From Seville To Sevilla, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 130:

Some managers may instruct players to ‘earn’ a second yellow card and miss a relatively unimportant group game rather than risk missing important semi-finals or finals.

2021, Deepak Dhayanithy, Strategy Huddle: Management Lessons from Sports, SAGE Publishing India, →ISBN:

(soccer) The dismissal from the game of a player who has already been booked and would receive another yellow card, indicated by the referee by showing the player the yellow immediately followed by the red card, distinct from and less grave than a straight red card.


nothing but net

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(basketball) The situation where the ball passes through the net without striking either the rim or the backboard, reflecting an especially good shot.


-cross

(sports) Forms the names of sports that involve racing across an artificial cross-country course of bumps, jumps, drop-offs, troughs, curves, and such.


double off

en-verb

double off (third-person singular simple present doubles off, present participle doubling off, simple past and past participle doubled off)

doubles off (present singular third-person)
doubling off (participle present)
doubled off (participle past)
doubled off (past)

The fielder doubled the runner off for the second out.

(baseball, transitive) After a fly ball is caught, to tag the base (a runner) was on at the time of the pitch, thereby causing them to be out for failure to tag up.


Three Lions

the Three Lions (canonical plural)
3 Lions (alternative)

A reference to the crest or badge of the team, which depicts three lions.

The Three Lions are in the last four for only the third time. They went on to win their home tournament in 1966 but lost to West Germany on penalties in 1990.

2018 July 7, Phil McNulty, “Sweden 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport:

(soccer) The England national football team.


tag out

tag out (third-person singular simple present tags out, present participle tagging out, simple past and past participle tagged out)

tags out (present singular third-person)
tagging out (participle present)
tagged out (participle past)
tagged out (past)

(transitive, sports) To touch a contestant or player in order to do something, such as to remove a runner from play in baseball or to replace a wrestler with a teammate in tag-team wrestling.


yump

yump (third-person singular simple present yumps, present participle yumping, simple past and past participle yumped)

yumps (present singular third-person)
yumping (participle present)
yumped (participle past)
yumped (past)

From jump, as mispronounced by Scandinavians, according to a book by Tony Gardiner.

(intransitive, motor racing) To leave the ground briefly when driving over a ridge at high speed.


ski-thru

A variant of ski-through; from ski + thru, modelled after drive-thru.

[page 14] [T]wo resort owners in the Ely area were asked if they would be willing to join forces and attempt to get a trail constructed to connect the two businesses and jointly market a ski-thru program. […] [page 15] The end product of this activity was the construction of trail segments linking the existing cross-country ski trails with each other and with the two resorts. In addition to marketing cross-country skiing individually, the two resorts put together a ski-thru package and marketed it in cooperation with Amtrak.

1971, Staff Paper, St. Paul, Minn.: Institute of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 14 and 15:

Three lodges—Borderland, Gunflint Lodge, and Bearskin Lodge—have initiated a ski-thru program. Skiers can tour between lodges. Your gear is transported ahead to be there on arrival.

1982 November, Mitch Mode, “Update: Cross Country Midwest”, in Dick Needham, editor, Ski, volume 47, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Times Mirror Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page CC17, columns 1–2:

The lodge-to-lodge ski-thru program is a co-operative effort of several of the Gunflint Lodges where skiers can stay at different lodges each night and ski different trail systems.

1989, The Boundary Waters Journal: The Magazine of America’s Favorite Wilderness Area, Ely, Minn.: Boundary Waters Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:

Recommended hotels include the Tandådalens and the Högfjället. Onkel Jean restaurant is praised for its 'delicious elk steaks'. McSki is the world's first and only ski-thru McDonalds.^([sic])

1999, Peter Hardy, Felice Eyston, editors, The Good Skiing and Snowboarding Guide 2000: The Essential Guide to What’s What and Where’s Where in 600 Ski Resorts across Five Continents, Woodstock, N.Y.: The Overlook Press, →ISBN, page 506:

When fast food chains open outlets in other countries, the architecture must frequently be modified to meet local conditions. The most unusual modification to date is Sweden's McSki, which provides ski-thru service so that skiers "can ski up to the counter and order their favorite McDonald's sandwich without missing a beat on the slopes."

2006, Andrew F. Smith, “Drive-thrus”, in Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 83:

(skiing, informal) Alternative spelling of ski-through


ski-thru

McDonald's / Worldwide locations include Beijing in China, Pushkin Square and Gorky Street in Moscow, and a ski-thru in Sweden. There is also a McDonald's on a ferry which sails between Stockholm and Helsinki.

2004, Angela Pumphrey, Superbrands: An Insight into Britain’s Strongest Brands 2004, London: Superbrands, →ISBN, page 129:

By the late 1990s McDonald’s claimed to be opening a new store somewhere every three hours. In Sweden, that meant a ski-thru.

2015 May, Jeff MacGregor, “Taking Stock of 75 Years of McDonald’s: Has the Original Fast-food Restaurant Finally Reached the End of Its Success?”, in Smithsonian, archived from the original on 2017-08-03:


video assistant referee

en-noun

video assistant referee (plural video assistant referees)

(soccer) A football assistant referee who reviews decisions made by the head referee with the use of video footage and a headset for communication, officially introduced in 2018.


makeup call

(sports) The situation where a referee calls out one team in an attempt to make up for a previous call that may have been erroneous.


hors categorie

hors categories (plural)
hors catégorie (alternative)

(cycling) The toughest category of climbs, tougher than category 1. One of six categories of climbs, HC, 1, 2, 3, 4, and not classified; not classified being the easiest.


wicket taker

(cricket) A person who takes a wicket in the game of cricket


backstraightaway

backstraightaways (plural)
back straightaway (alternative)

as well as dropping the drivers into the clutches of other cars with an advantage in straight line speed down the long backstraightaway at CTMP.

2018 July 9, IMSA, “Sixth Place In Canada For Mazda Team Joest”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

More recently, a “short course” was created by connecting the exit of Turn One to the backstraightaway,

, “Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. threw a huge block on Blaney down the backstraightaway, resulting in contact that sent Stenhouse sideways in front of the field.,

2018 February 18, Steven Taranto, “Aggressive driving triggers multi-car wreck in Daytona 500”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

From the start-finish line to halfway down the backstraightaway, we had the fastest car

1995 July 8, Roy Hasty, “Martin Has Smooth Ride At Nhis”, in Hartford Courant:

in fact i passed an old 911 turbo with slick coming out of the corkscrews and down the backstraightaway

1999 August 5, Dralwhite, “A driving issue”, in alt.autos.porsche (Usenet), message-ID <19990804230638.10608.00006679@ng-fb1.aol.com>:

The 6 car (Mark Martin) pushed me all the way down the backstraightaway pretty hard

2002 July 7, Ryan Newman, “NASCAR-WCS: Daytona II: Raybestos Rookie race quotes”, in rec.autos.sport.info (Usenet), message-ID <ag8g99$55n$1@montecarlo.motorsport.com>:

(motor racing) the straight part of an oval racetrack that does not include the finish line.


puntless

en-adj

puntless (comparative more puntless, superlative most puntless)

more puntless (comparative)
most puntless (superlative)

That was the first puntless game in NFL playoff history.


matchweek

matchweeks (plural)
match-week (alternative)

(sports) The week in which a sporting event takes place.


ringpost

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling) Any of the posts that surround the ring.


outbrake

en-verb

outbrake (third-person singular simple present outbrakes, present participle outbraking, simple past and past participle outbraked)

outbrakes (present singular third-person)
outbraking (participle present)
outbraked (participle past)
outbraked (past)

Westbrook was able to outbrake Bruni's Ferrari entering the first turn of the final lap and hold the lead.

We had to go through it but there was a choice of just where, so I outbraked Tim to get the best line I could, and then I outbraked myself as well.

2014, Don Simpson, Too Old for Motor Racing: A Short Story in Case I Didn’t Live Long Enough to Finish Writing a Longer One:

(transitive, motor racing) To brake late in order to get an advantage over.


outbrake oneself

outbrake oneself (third-person singular simple present outbrakes oneself, present participle outbraking oneself, simple past and past participle outbraked oneself)

outbrakes oneself (present singular third-person)
outbraking oneself (participle present)
outbraked oneself (participle past)
outbraked oneself (past)

(motor racing) To brake too late and go wide in a curve.


dolphin kick

(swimming) An underwater swimming stroke, where both legs are held together and undulated, like a mermaid's tail, to propel the swimmer


butterfly kick

(swimming) The kicking motion associated with the butterfly stroke.


rim out

rim out (third-person singular simple present rims out, present participle rimming out, simple past and past participle rimmed out)

rims out (present singular third-person)
rimming out (participle present)
rimmed out (participle past)
rimmed out (past)

(transitive, basketball) To miss a basket by bouncing the ball off of around the rim.


all-courter

(tennis) A player who can play as a baseliner or serve-and-volleyer


serve-and-volleyer

(tennis) A player who plays in a serve and volley style


Australian doubles

(tennis) A game of tennis with three people, pitching a singles player against a doubles pairing, and rotating who plays singles each game


American doubles

(tennis) A game of tennis with three people, pitching a singles player against a doubles pairing, and rotating who playes singles each game


Canadian doubles

(tennis) A game of tennis with three people, pitching a singles player against a doubles pairing, with some modified rules


forced error

(sports, especially tennis) An error caused by an opponent's good play


double break point

en-noun

double break point (countable and uncountable, plural double break points)

(tennis) A situation in which the receiver has two break points (15-40 using the tennis scoring system)


chair umpire

(tennis) The official who sits in the umpire chair, who is the main authority during a match


wood shot

(tennis) A shot hit off the frame of the racket


singles stick

(tennis) A stick used to support a doubles net so that it meets the requirements of a singles net


doubles net

(tennis) A net used for playing doubles, longer than a singles net


singles net

(tennis) A net used for playing singles, shorter than a doubles net


time violation

(tennis) The breaking of a rule where a player takes too long to get ready between a point


point penalty

(tennis) The awarding of a point for a player's opponent, as a result of infringement of the rules, e.g. foul language or time violation


four-belt

(boxing) Relating to the four forms of professional heavyweight boxing - WBO, WBC, IBF and WBA


pitboard

pitboards (plural)
pit board (alternative)

My pitboard put me in eighth, with lap times varying from the low 1:405 to the high 1241s, depending on traffic.

1998 January 21, Nick Ienatsch, “Back in the Fray”, in Cycle World Magazine, page 118:

I knew I didn't make a timing mistake this time so I told them to put 147+ on the pitboard.

2005, Denny Miller, Eddie Sachs The Clown Prince of Racing, →ISBN, page 339:

(motor racing) A board used to communicate brief important information to a racing driver such as driver name, laps, and current position in the race.


smack out

en-verb

smack out (third-person singular simple present smacks out, present participle smacking out, simple past and past participle smacked out)

smacks out (present singular third-person)
smacking out (participle present)
smacked out (participle past)
smacked out (past)

He smacked out a triple.

(transitive, baseball, by extension) To hit a ball very hard.


free agency

en-noun

free agency (countable and uncountable, plural free agencies)

2013 Alex Malcolm, Andrejs Everitt gets to Carlton in last minute deal Football365, 25 October 2018. Accessed 6 August 2018.
"It has been a profitable trade period for the Blues. They also secured Dale Thomas as a restricted free agent and Sam Docherty from the Brisbane Lions, having lost Shaun Hampson in a trade with Richmond and Eddie Betts under free agency."

(sports) A system through which professional athletes are free to play for or sign a contract to play for any team.

2018 Brian Windhorst, Get ready: Superteams and superstars can recruit LeBron again ESPN, 9 June 2018. Accessed 6 August 2018.
"In his past two free agencies, James joined a team with another superstar in residence, and another star came with him."

(sports) The movement of an athlete to a team through free agency.

2018 Free agents XI: Out-of-contract stars yet to sign a deal Football365, 27 June 2018. Accessed 5 August 2018.
"These players, in a 3-5-2 formation, are days away from free agency with no club yet acquired as pre-season training approaches…"

(sports) The status of an athlete as a free agent.


bank shot

(snooker, pool, billiards) A shot in which the player causes the cue ball or an object ball to rebound off a cushion.

(basketball) A shot in which the basketball glances off the backboard before reaching the basket.


rap down

en-verb

rap down (third-person singular simple present raps down, present participle rapping down, simple past and past participle rapped down)

raps down (present singular third-person)
rapping down (participle present)
rapped down (participle past)
rapped down (past)

We built an interim anchor and Mike rapped down to Jeff.

2016, American Alpine Club, Accidents: In North American Climbing 2016:

(transitive, Canada, US, slang, mountaineering) To rappel down a mountain.


ab off

ab off (third-person singular simple present abs off, present participle abbing off, simple past and past participle abbed off)

abs off (present singular third-person)
abbing off (participle present)
abbed off (participle past)
abbed off (past)

Every one's up on a crag where he'd got stuck and had to ab off.

1995, Matt Sarnet, Climbing: Issues 151-153, page 93:

Two of them abbed off to leave enough for the other two.

(British English, transitive, slang, mountaineering) To abseil down a mountain.


take gas

take gas (third-person singular simple present takes gas, present participle taking gas, simple past took gas, past participle taken gas)

takes gas (present singular third-person)
taking gas (participle present)
took gas (past)
taken gas (participle past)

Jordan took gas. He got rolled around the rocks and eventually came to a stop.

2014, Greg Gutierrez, Zen and the Art of Surfing:

He really took gas on that one.

2014, Douglas Preston, The Kraken Project: A Novel:

(slang, surfing, of a surfer) To be knocked off one's surfboard by a wave.


assault at arms

en-noun

assault at arms (plural assaults at arms)

(fencing) A display of attack and defence in fencing.


walk in

en-verb

walk in (third-person singular simple present walks in, present participle walking in, simple past and past participle walked in)

walks in (present singular third-person)
walking in (participle present)
walked in (participle past)
walked in (past)

(transitive, weightlifting) To step to the rack again with after having stepped away in order not to hit it during execution of the exercise.


Joe the Goose

tlb

(Australian rules football, sometimes derogatory, often attributive)

Joe the Gooses (plural)
Joe the goose (alternative)
Joe-the-Goose (alternative)
Joe-the-goose (alternative)

"His first goal was a ‘‘Joe the Goose’’ over the top, but Brown followed it up with another mark and conversion barely a minute later."

2014 September 7, Rohan Connolly, “North Melbourne storms home to defeat the Essendon Bombers in their elimination final”, in The Examiner, retrieved 2018-08-16:

"As for Darcy Moore, well he kicked two goals today – one of them a classic “Joe the Goose”, but still – and with no senior key forward to partner with it’s no surprise he gets kept out of the contest at times."

2017 April 25, Josh Elliott, “Five more quick takes from AFL Round 5”, in The Roar, retrieved 2018-08-19:

"“He’s opened his mouth all year, he’s been the best receiver in the game in the goalsquare — the old Joe the Goose. But when it counted about getting out there and winning your own ball in pressure situations, he fell short,” Walls said."

2017 October 2, Ben Waterworth, “Robert Walls slams Grand Final output of three Adelaide tall forwards against Richmond”, in News.com.au, retrieved 2018-08-20:

A (usually easy) goal scored by a player who has received a handball in the goalsquare and is without an opponent close to them.


inwick

(curling) A stroke in which the stone rebounds from the inside edge of another stone, and then slides close to the tee.


play the man and not the ball

en-verb

play the man and not the ball (third-person singular simple present plays the man and not the ball, present participle playing the man and not the ball, simple past and past participle played the man and not the ball)

plays the man and not the ball (present singular third-person)
playing the man and not the ball (participle present)
played the man and not the ball (participle past)
played the man and not the ball (past)
play the man (alternative)
play the man, not the ball (alternative)
play the man not the ball (alternative)

(sports) To attack an opponent instead of attacking the ball, which is usually being controlled by the attacked player at the time.


play the ball and not the man

play the ball and not the man (third-person singular simple present plays the ball and not the man, present participle playing the ball and not the man, simple past and past participle played the ball and not the man)

plays the ball and not the man (present singular third-person)
playing the ball and not the man (participle present)
played the ball and not the man (participle past)
played the ball and not the man (past)
play the ball (alternative)
play the ball, not the man (alternative)
play the ball not the man (alternative)

(sports) To attack the ball instead of an opponent who is usually controlling the ball. Often considered a positive action, and sometimes a requirement not to concede a penalty.


cornerbacking

(sports) The playing of the cornerback position.


laptime

(motor racing) The time taken to complete a lap of the circuit.


spinorama

spinoramas (plural)
spinarama (alternative)
spin-o-rama (alternative)

From spin + -orama. A "Gallivanism" coined by sportscaster Danny Gallivan.

(ice hockey) The action of spinning a full turn while skating with the puck, in order to protect it from opponents.


bore draw

bore draws (plural)
bore-draw (alternative)

From the notion that a scoreless draw is boring to watch.

"ROB GREEN was the hero as his penalty save allowed returning Eden Hazard to settle this bore draw in a shootout."

2018 August 7, Tom Barclay, “KANTE BELIEVE IT Chelsea 0 Lyon 0 (5-4 pens): Eden Hazard and N’Golo Kante return as Rob Green makes Blues debut in goal”, in The Sun:

(soccer) A draw in which neither team scores, i.e. the game ends 0–0.

(soccer, rarely) A draw in which both teams score but it is considered a boring game to watch.


flood the zone

flood the zone (third-person singular simple present floods the zone, present participle flooding the zone, simple past and past participle flooded the zone)

floods the zone (present singular third-person)
flooding the zone (participle present)
flooded the zone (participle past)
flooded the zone (past)
followed by with (usually)

The NFL renaissance of Doug Flutie is a reminder of one of the great plays in college football history. […] "The play was called 'Trips Right, Flood Tip,'" Phelan said. "That meant three receivers to the right side, flood the zone and try for the tip."

1998 November 22, Hal Bock, “Hail To Flutie And The Gang: Miracle Pass to Phelan Still Has Lasting Effect on Players”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2018-09-03:

McCarthy could spot his curveball for strikes, and flooded the zone with fastballs and cutters.

2017 April 17, Andy McCullough, “Dodgers taxed bullpen gives up first homer in 4-2 loss to Diamondbacks”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2018-09-03:

Of the 17 Padres position players who saw the most playing time in 2017, 16 of them were 29 or younger. […] Of course, simply flooding the zone with young players doesn't guarantee anything.

2017 November 19, Jonah Keri, “Astros Lead Our Offseason Power Rankings”, in Sports Illustrated, retrieved 2018-09-03:

(chiefly US, idiomatic, sports) To fill a relevant region of the field of play.


score draw

score draws (plural)
score-draw (alternative)

"The former Liverpool captain, renowned for his reputation in the past as a no-nonsense midfield-enforcer, put Thierry Henry firmly in his place on Sunday afternoon after Arsenal's score draw with Tottenham."

2015 November 9, Callum Davis, “Graeme Souness shouting at Thierry Henry is frightening and awkward”, in The Telegraph:

(soccer) A draw in which both teams score, i.e. the game ends 1–1, 2–2, 3–3, etc.


outswinging

en-adj

outswinging (comparative more outswinging, superlative most outswinging)

more outswinging (comparative)
most outswinging (superlative)

(soccer) Moving so as to curve away from the goal or centre


track meet

(sports) An athletic contest for track and field sports.


switch codes

en-verb

switch codes (third-person singular simple present switches codes, present participle switching codes, simple past and past participle switched codes)

switches codes (present singular third-person)
switching codes (participle present)
switched codes (participle past)
switched codes (past)

(rugby) To change from playing rugby league to rugby union or vice versa


Torricellian chamber

en-noun

Torricellian chamber (plural Torricellian chambers)

atmospheric pressure
atmospheric pressure

(underwater diving) A cave chamber with an airspace above the water at less than atmospheric pressure.


setup man

(baseball) A (male) relief pitcher who appears in the inning prior to the closer, typically the 8th inning.


line to gain

(American football) The points on the football field needed to pass to convert a first down.


dirty bulk

dirty bulk (countable and uncountable, plural dirty bulks)

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Near-synonym: dirty bulking (“the system or practice of doing dirty bulks”)

(bodybuilding) A bulk where one is eating excessive amounts of food and putting on excessive amounts of fat as a result.


clean bulk

clean bulk (countable and uncountable, plural clean bulks)

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(bodybuilding) A bulk where one tries to gain strength and muscle while putting on as little body fat as possible.


best and fairest

best and fairest (plural best and fairests)

Australian rules football
Australian rules football

(Australia, sports, rugby, Australian rules football) an award given to a player deemed to have been the best performer in a game or over a season


York round

(archery) six dozen, four dozen, and two dozen arrows shot at each of three distances


American round

(archery) five ends, of six arrows each, shot at each of three distances


butt wink

(weightlifting) An error while performing a squat of bending the lower back and moving the pelvis in under the body.


counter-canter

She used to come to the indoor riding school at Knightsbridge and ride my charger, Foxhunter, which I taught to do counter-canters, extended trots, half-passes and other dressage movements.

2005, James Hewitt, Moving On, →ISBN, page 11:

Before you start teaching your horse to do a flying change, you need to be able to perform counter-canter.

2012, William Micklem, Complete Horse Riding Manual, →ISBN, page 151:

Because it challenges your horse's balance and strengthens his outside hind leg, the counter-canter is an excellent gymnastic exercise for improving balance and collection.

2012, Jennifer O. Bryant, The USDF Guide to Dressage, →ISBN:

(dressage) A canter that is performed in a circle, leading with the leg opposite to the direction of the canter.


runstand

(cricket) The number of runs scored by two batters in a partnership


Nations League

(soccer) A biennial European football tournament pitting similarly-ranked teams against each other, serving as qualification for the European Championship


Birkie

(skiing, informal) The American Birkebeiner, a cross-country ski race.


Phillie

(baseball) A player that plays for the Philadelphia Phillies


upkick

The general position of the feet is that heels and rear part of the toes just break the surface of the water on the upkick and drive to the position of about 45 cms underneath.

2002, Kishin R. Wadhwaney, The Story of Swimming:


charging the mound

(baseball) The act of a batter running towards the pitcher's mound with the intent of physically assaulting the pitcher for a perceived grievance.


bench-clearing brawl

bench-clearing brawl (plural bench-clearing brawls)

(sports) A fight during a sporting event that causes non-participating players to leave their benches to get involved.


spot-barred

a spot-barred game or tournament

(billiards) In which the spot stroke is forbidden to be played more than twice consecutively.


Dilscoop

From the surname of Sri Lankan batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan, and scoop.

(cricket) A kind of batting stroke, aiming to go on one knee to a good length or slightly short of length delivery off a fast- or medium-paced bowler and 'scoop' the ball over the head of the wicketkeeper, straight towards the boundary.


run game

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Tristan Wirfs should help. His diverse athletic background — his past in wrestling, in particular — informed his approach to playing offensive tackle. An absolute mauler in the run game and a reliable pass-blocker, Wirfs played mostly right tackle at Iowa and ceded only 40 quarterback pressures on 1,138 pass-blocking snaps at Iowa, according to Pro Football Focus.

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

(American football) The running component of a team's offense, as distinct from passing and kicking.


dead-ball era

(baseball) The period between around 1900 and 1919, characterized by low scoring games with few home runs.


live-ball era

(baseball) The period after about 1919, following the dead-ball era.


winged T

(American football) A formation with two halfbacks, where one lines up just behind the line of scrimmage between the split end and the offensive tackle, and the other lines up behind the quarterback and next to the fullback.


crossback

* cross + back
* (Catholic person): Alluding to Catholic priests wearing crosses on the backs of their vestments in church services.

There is a constant crossback movement, first with one foot and then with the other.

1957, Beale Fletcher, How to improve your tap dancing:

Step with the left foot ending behind the right (crossback position).

1990, Jo Ann McNamara, Sharon Pendleton, The ABCs of Aerobics, →ISBN, page 28:

Whether tip-toeing daintily or skidding with controlled abandon across the space, Harold's softshoe dance ran the gamut of classic jazz dance steps. Circling crossbacks and crossovers, step-ball-changes, spin turns and grapevines, ...

2000, Constance Valis Hill, Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers:

(dance) A step in which one leg crosses behind the other.

Ruddey made two on a crossback and Reddey was forced along for one., after which Hachah decided to punt, which he did forthwith, the ball alighting in Hart 's arms.

1906, The Lafayette Weekly - Volume 33, page 33:

On the kick-off, Cochran ran the ball back to the thirty-eight-yard line. It took only seventeen plays, most of them off tackle plunges, before Houlahan slid over the line on a crossback for the touchdown.

1919, Columbia Alumni News - Volume 9, page 119:

Go over several movements that the running backs and quarterback can make (i.e., option, crossback plays, quick pitches, sweeps, etc.).

1998, Mike Bobo, Spike Dykes, Principles of Coaching Football, →ISBN, page 94:

(American football) A play in which the player with the ball crosses to one side of the field and then doubles back to the other.


fair weather fan

fair weather fan (plural fair weather fans)

From fair-weather + fan, drawing an analogy between good weather and trouble-free times.

(sports, idiomatic) A fan who only pays attention to their favorite team when they are performing well.


bandwagon fan

(sports, idiomatic, often derogatory) A fan who has shown no past loyalty to a team and supports them all because they are actively succeeding or trendy.


murderers' row

(sports) A team with an exceptionally talented group of players, or that group of players.


Murderers' Row

(baseball, historical) The batting lineup of certain New York Yankees teams in the early twentieth century, most notably the 1927 team.

(boxing, historical) A group of middleweight boxers in the 1940s.


Air Coryell

(American football) An offensive scheme developed by NFL coach Don Coryell.


USFL

United States Football League
w:United States Football League

(American football) Initialism of United States Football League.


AAFL

All American Football League
w:All American Football League

(American football) Initialism of All American Football League.


super-sub

Toone, who has gone from super-sub to starter since the Euros, also took her opportunity to cement her place in midfield in the absence of injured Chelsea star Fran Kirby and got a goal to show for her efforts.

2023 April 6, Emma Sanders, “Women's Finalissima:England beat Brazil in dramatic shhotout”, in BBC Sport:


YNWA

you'll never walk alone
w:you'll never walk alone

(soccer) Initialism of you'll never walk alone, an anthem commonly used by Liverpool football club Liverpool F.C. and the Scottish club Celtic F.C.

you'll never walk alone

(soccer, offensive) Initialism of you'll never walk again, used as a taunt in reference to the Hillsborough Disaster.


circle pit

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From circle + pit, modelled after mosh pit.

Call Me in the Morning also fuses old and new, referencing the Rolling Stones' Paint It Black while swimming in Auto-Tune. The circle pit then swirls anew for Open the Till, which features a yellable chorus and more gnomic Skinnerisms. "You make ends meet," he [Mike Skinner] notes, "then they move the ends."

2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-08:

(dance, music) A dance at a concert where participants mosh in a circular path, leaving the centre clear.


underhit

en-verb

underhit (third-person singular simple present underhits, present participle underhitting, simple past and past participle underhit)

underhits (present singular third-person)
underhitting (participle present)
underhit (participle past)
underhit (past)

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The golfer underhit the ball and failed to reach the green.

(sports, transitive) To hit with insufficient force.


minor premier

minor premiers (plural)
minor premiers (alternative)

(sports) the team at the top of the competition ladder before the finals begin.


minor premiers

minor premiers (plural)
minor premier (alternative)


carry out one's bat

carry out one's bat (third-person singular simple present carries out one's bat, present participle carrying out one's bat, simple past and past participle carried out one's bat)

carries out one's bat (present singular third-person)
carrying out one's bat (participle present)
carried out one's bat (participle past)
carried out one's bat (past)

(cricket) To leave the wickets without having been put out.


above par

(golf) (of a score) More than par for the hole or course.


trife

A conceptual and phonetic blend of tripe and trifle

Trife is trife even, in a reform synagogue.

1991, Richard M. Elman, Tar Beach, page 259:

l thought niggahs was trife, but bitches ain't no joke.

2003, Ed McNair, My Time to Shine: A Novel, page 232:

This life is trife!

2014, Keough Collins, My Surrender is Never II, →ISBN, page 29:

You may refurbish your life But, you can't avoid trife

(hip-hop, slang) A trivial matter or matters.


trife

en-adj

trife (comparative more trife, superlative most trife)

more trife (comparative)
most trife (superlative)

Okay, you wanna act trife and flip the script / With your Wonderama drama slash coma riff.

1991, Pete Rock, C.L. Smooth, Mecca and the Soul Brother:

My life is as trife as your favorite rap record.

This shit is trife!

2007, KaShamba Williams, Thomas Long, La Jill Hunt, Around the Way Girls 2, page 31:

He bought her that drug, Satan's so trife, Now she addicted to the needle, A friend done ruined her life,

2008, Tyrone Purcell Roundtree Sr., Soapbox, page 35:

Just get out of my crib with your trife ass!

(hip-hop, slang) Unforgiveable; reprehensible.


supersub

supersubs (plural)
super sub (alternative)

(sports) A substitute player who significantly contributes to a team's success.

(cricket) In non-standard cricketing rules, a substitute player who is able to come on and replace any player at any point during the game, and to take over the other player's batting and bowling duties.


mainshaft

mainshafts (plural)
main shaft (alternative)

(archery) The primary shaft of an arrow into which the foreshaft containing the arrowhead is inserted.


TOI

en-noun

TOI (countable and uncountable, plural TOIs)

(ice hockey statistics) Icetime; Abbreviation of time on ice.


icetime

(ice hockey, ice skating) Time spent on the ice rink.


ski-through

Deverbal from ski through, modelled after drive-through.

[page 14] [T]wo resort owners in the Ely area were asked if they would be willing to join forces and attempt to get a trail constructed to connect the two businesses and jointly market a ski-thru program. […] [page 15] The end product of this activity was the construction of trail segments linking the existing cross-country ski trails with each other and with the two resorts. In addition to marketing cross-country skiing individually, the two resorts put together a ski-thru package and marketed it in cooperation with Amtrak.

1971, Staff Paper, St. Paul, Minn.: Institute of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 14 and 15:

Three lodges—Borderland, Gunflint Lodge, and Bearskin Lodge—have initiated a ski-thru program. Skiers can tour between lodges. Your gear is transported ahead to be there on arrival.

1982 November, Mitch Mode, “Update: Cross Country Midwest”, in Dick Needham, editor, Ski, volume 47, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Times Mirror Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page CC17, columns 1–2:

There are four lodges on the Gunflint trail (County Road 12) that are owned by the originators of the first midwest ski-through program. Skiers start at one lodge, ski its trails, and then move out to the main artery trail and ski-through to the next lodge. Their luggage and car will be moved on ahead to the next participating lodge. This gives guests the opportunity to ski many more trails of the Gunflint community […]

1985, Elizabeth Noren, Gary Noren, Ski Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.: Nodin Press, →ISBN, page 115:

The lodge-to-lodge ski-thru program is a co-operative effort of several of the Gunflint Lodges where skiers can stay at different lodges each night and ski different trail systems.

1989, The Boundary Waters Journal: The Magazine of America’s Favorite Wilderness Area, Ely, Minn.: Boundary Waters Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:

A ski-through system by Entrelogic will be installed at four resorts this season.

2004, Ski Area Management, volume 43, North Salem, N.Y.: Beardsley Publishing Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 49:

(skiing) Of a ski lodge or other hotel establishment: providing skiers with the service of transporting their equipment, luggage, and vehicles to other establishments so they can ski directly to those establishments.

Families can ski together in a friendly atmosphere on specially marked areas, and you and your children can spend time at our fun-filled Children's Adventure Mountain™ with special ski-through attractions.

1992 September, “Get Away to It All [advertisement]”, in John Fry, editor, Snow Country: The Year-round Magazine of Skiing, Mountain Sports & Living, volume 5, number 5, Trumbull, Conn.: Golf Digest/Tennis, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 67:

Resort-level snow and ski-through, car-free village give an Alpine atmosphere.

1994, Chris Gill, Dave Watts, editors, Where to Ski, London: Boxtree, →ISBN, page 149:

Recommended hotels include the Tandådalens and the Högfjället. Onkel Jean restaurant is praised for its 'delicious elk steaks'. McSki is the world's first and only ski-thru McDonalds.^([sic])

1999, Peter Hardy, Felice Eyston, editors, The Good Skiing and Snowboarding Guide 2000: The Essential Guide to What’s What and Where’s Where in 600 Ski Resorts across Five Continents, Woodstock, N.Y.: The Overlook Press, →ISBN, page 506:

All points of entry at the lifts are ski-through and non-contact.

2003, Ski Area Management, volume 42, North Salem, N.Y.: Beardsley Publishing Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 86:

When fast food chains open outlets in other countries, the architecture must frequently be modified to meet local conditions. The most unusual modification to date is Sweden's McSki, which provides ski-thru service so that skiers "can ski up to the counter and order their favorite McDonald's sandwich without missing a beat on the slopes."

2006, Andrew F. Smith, “Drive-thrus”, in Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 83:

(skiing) Of a restaurant, shop, or other establishment or facility: providing service to skiers while they are still wearing their skis.


ski-through

ski-throughs (plural)
ski-thru (alternative)

McDonald's / Worldwide locations include Beijing in China, Pushkin Square and Gorky Street in Moscow, and a ski-thru in Sweden. There is also a McDonald's on a ferry which sails between Stockholm and Helsinki.

2004, Angela Pumphrey, Superbrands: An Insight into Britain’s Strongest Brands 2004, London: Superbrands, →ISBN, page 129:

By the late 1990s McDonald’s claimed to be opening a new store somewhere every three hours. In Sweden, that meant a ski-thru.

2015 May, Jeff MacGregor, “Taking Stock of 75 Years of McDonald’s: Has the Original Fast-food Restaurant Finally Reached the End of Its Success?”, in Smithsonian, archived from the original on 2017-08-03:

McDonald's and Burger King outlets are everywhere in the developed world. […] There is a ski-through on a slope in Sweden and by now Beijing and Moscow have their own outlets as well.

2016, Martin Beckstein, “Entrepreneurial Space Production”, in The Politics of Economic Life (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory; 63), New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN, section 7.2 (Fast-food Chains and the Production of Space):

(skiing) A restaurant, shop, or other establishment providing service to skiers while they are still wearing their skis.


full-course yellow

full-course yellow (plural full-course yellows)

full-course yellows (plural)
full course yellow (alternative)

From full (“entire”) + course (“racetrack course”) + yellow (“yellow flag”).

compound

(motor racing) A state where the entire track is operated under yellow flag conditions


shin-kicking

(sports) A traditional English sport in which two combatants hold each other by the collar while trying to kick each other's shin


cycle polo

(sports, uncountable) A team sport, similar to traditional polo, except that bicycles are used instead of horses.


schneid

Clipping of schneider, from German Schneider (“tailor”).

(Canada, US, sports, slang) A losing streak.


CFM

(soccer) Initialism of Club de Foot Montréal, a Canadian team playing in Major League Soccer.


cushion tire

cushion tires (plural)
cushion tyre (alternative)

(cycling) A bicycle tire made of india-rubber tubing, with india-rubber stuffing.


downsweep

(swimming) The downward motion of a swimmer's arm.


no-hander

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(sports, cycling) A move performed without the use of one's hands.


armored combat fighting

(sports) A gladiatorial combat sport, where medieval recreationists fight each other while fully armored in recreation medieval armor with recreation medieval weapons. Several variations of the sport exist, which include melee combat for last man standing winners, team-versus-team, and one-on-one combat.

tae kwon do

martial art and Korean armored kickboxing sport

jousting

medieval re-creation sport; and medieval knightly contest

kendo

martial art and Japanese armored sword dueling sport


armoured combat fighting

armored combat fighting
armored combat fighting#English

(sports) Alternative spelling of armored combat fighting


armored combat fight

en-noun

armored combat fight (plural armored combat fights)

armored combat fights (plural)
armoured combat fight (alternative)

armored combat fighting
armored combat fighting

(sports) a match in the sport of armored combat fighting


armoured combat fight

armoured combat fight (plural armoured combat fights)

armored combat fight
armored combat fight#English

(sports) Alternative spelling of armored combat fight


armored combat

armored combat (countable and uncountable, plural armored combats)

armored combats (plural)
armoured combat (alternative)

(sports, uncountable) Ellipsis of armored combat fighting. (a combat sport)

(sports, countable) Ellipsis of armored combat fight. (a sports match)


kaisa

(billiards) A variant of the game billiards played chiefly in Finland and Russia.


no-score draw

(soccer) a goalless draw, the result of a match in which neither side scores a goal.


counterthrow

(martial arts) A move that saves a fighter from being thrown by the opponent and converts the motion into a throw of the opponent instead.


jock sniffer

(sports, derogatory) A person who idolizes star athletes.


Big Game

From big + game, due to it being the most prominent sports match.

(US, sports, euphemistic) Synonym of Super Bowl (the annual national American football championship for the U.S. based National Football League)


false summit

(mountaineering) A minor peak or shoulder on a mountain which appears, when approached from below, to be the principal summit.

valehuippu

minor peak that appears the principal summit


face turn

face turns (plural)
heel/face turn (alternative)
heel-face turn (alternative)

From professional wrestling, in which the wrestler playing a villain role is called the "heel" and a wrestler playing the heroic role is called the "face".

In order to retain viewers, both promotions did their best to load their respective shows with as much action and as many dramatic twists as possible, including pay-per-view quality matches, title changes, heal/face turns, and shocking debuts on a weekly basis.

2000, Brian Solomon, Pro Wrestling FAQ, →ISBN:

Here are five superstars who would benefit tremendously from a character change, whether that be a heel/face turn or an entirely new gimmick.

2017 November 12, Blake Oestriecher, “5 WWE Stars who Badly Need a Character Change”, in Forbes:

WWE has been known to do heel/face turn experiments at live events.

2018 July 29, Corey Jacobs, “Bray Wyatt wrestled as a full-blown babyface on Saturday night”, in Wrestling News:

(professional wrestling) A situation in which a wrestler previously identified as a villain changes to being considered a hero.


safety stop

decompression sickness
decompression sickness

(underwater diving) A diver's pause at a certain depth when ascending, to prevent decompression sickness.


UEFAlona

UEFAlona win again, having been awarded two penalties in the last 20 minutes. Yeah, I don't smell corruption at all...

(humorous, derogatory, soccer) The football club F.C. Barcelona (viewed as being unrightfully favored by UEFA in terms of refereeing or other aspects).


stakeswinner

stakeswinners (plural)
stakes-winner (alternative)
stakes winner (alternative)
stakewinner (alternative)

(horse racing) A winner of a stakes race


television match official

television match official (plural television match officials)

(rugby) A referee who uses video recordings to assist in deciding if points have been scored


stakeswinning

(horse racing) Having won a stakes race.


underhook

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(wrestling, martial arts) A clinch hold performed by putting an arm under the opponent's arm, and holding the opponent's midsection or upper body.


underhook

en-verb

underhook (third-person singular simple present underhooks, present participle underhooking, simple past and past participle underhooked)

underhooks (present singular third-person)
underhooking (participle present)
underhooked (participle past)
underhooked (past)

(wrestling, martial arts, transitive) To use such a hold upon.


winter book

(horse racing) A bookmaker's guide to the likely performance of racehorses in the upcoming season.


100-meter dash

en-noun

100-meter dash (plural 100-meter dashes)

100-meter dashes (plural)
100-metre dash (alternative)

(athletics) A sprint race over 100 meters.


half-one

(golf) A handicap of one stroke every second hole.


time thrust

(fencing) A thrust made at the moment the opponent draws breath for his or her own thrust.


service box

(squash, racquetball) One of two sections of the court, inside which a server must have at least one foot during the service


victor ludorum

(UK, sports) The overall champion in a sports contest, typically at a public school


half butt

half butts (plural)
half-butt (alternative)

(snooker) An extra long snooker cue and bridge used to reach the cue ball when at the far end of the table.


major score

(Canadian football) A touchdown, which scores six points.


no yards

(Canadian football) A penalty in which the kicking team, on either a kickoff or punt, fails to give the receiver on the receiving team a 5-yard restraining area to catch the ball.


buddy breathe

en-verb

buddy breathe (third-person singular simple present buddy breathes, present participle buddy breathing, simple past and past participle buddy breathed)

buddy breathes (present singular third-person)
buddy breathing (participle present)
buddy breathed (participle past)
buddy breathed (past)

(underwater diving) To share a single demand valve and thus reduce the amount of breathing gas used up by each diver during an emergency rescue.


overager

(ice hockey) A player who is older than the maximum age permitted in a junior league.


Big Three

The Squat, Deadlift, and Bench Press are widely accepted to be the ‘Big Three’ powerlifting exercises by strength and conditioning experts.

2021 July 9, Sakdirat Kaewunruen, Junhui Huang, Jordan Haslam, “Insights into noise and vibration stemming from the gym’s heavy lifting”, in Sport Sciences for Health, volume 18, →DOI, pages 277–286:

(exercise) The deadlift, squat and benchpress.

(tennis) Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal, each considered to be among the greatest tennis players of all time.


P-

(sports) Initialism of position. (prefixed to a number) (indicates the placing of a competitor in (starting, during, after) a competition)


play club

(golf, historical) A wooden-headed golf club used for driving the ball the longest distances.


japow

(skiing slang) The low-humidity powder snow found in Japan's Snow Country


banshay

Borrowed from Burmese ဗန်ရှည် (banhrany).

(sports) A weapon-based martial art from Myanmar, focusing primarily on the sword, staff and spear.


naban

(sports) A traditional form of Burmese wrestling.


dummy half

(rugby) The player who receives the ball when it is returned into play behind the teammate who was just tackled.


stomp pad

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(snowboarding) A snowboard component for use removing snow from the bottoms of boots. Typically a metal or plastic plate, attached to the top of the snowboard between the bindings.


kickout

(surfing) A rapid turn performed by shifting one's weight to the rear of the surfboard.

On his first return scoring, against the Oilers, J.T. said, “I saw a hole on the right side, got a good kickout block and shot through.”

1979, The Sporting News - Volume 188, page 64:

In the short roll, playing 4-on-5 like a smaller Draymond, his job is simple: Read the defense and make the right play. Most of the time, it is either a lob, a floater or a kickout for a corner 3.

2021 May 16, James Herbert, “Power guard? Point center? The NBA's positional misfits are dismantling an antiquated system”, in CBS Sports:

They have to get there however possible tonight to create not just layups but also kickout 3s.

2021 May 21, Fred Katz, “Just what the doctor ordered for Wizards”, in The Athletic:

(basketball) A pass to another offensive player who immediately shoots for the basket.

This is the style of kick made by goal keepers in soccer in a kickout and by players in the Rugby type of game in the kick-off .

1917, Wilbur Pardon Bowen, Applied anatomy and kinesiology, the mechanism of muscular movement, page 292:

(soccer) A kick made by the goalkeeper from the goal area.

In the great Michigan game of 1903, it was he who got the ball on the kickout.

1906, Graff F. Wolfe, The Story of Wall Ka-Zoo, page 112:

Jones caught the kickout on the fifteen-yard line and Hudson kicked goal.

1906, The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette, page 276:

Another change requires that on the kickout the opponents line up on the 20-yard line, instead of on the 25-yard line, and that the ball be kicked from some point behind the 20-yard line.

The kickout was fumbled and Barrett lost his chance to try for the goal.

1915, The Cornell Alumni News - Volume 18, page 97:

“We called [the play] 26 Blast on that play and I was reading Jaydon Wright’s kickout block on the end,” Smith said.

2021 April 4, Nicholas Holstein, “FOOTBALL: Youthful Irish gain confidence, experience in win over Chicago Christian”, in Daily Journal (Kankakee, Illinois):

(rugby, American football) A drop kick by a player on the side to return the ball back into play.


sell the dummy

sell the dummy (third-person singular simple present sells the dummy, present participle selling the dummy, simple past and past participle sold the dummy)

sells the dummy (present singular third-person)
selling the dummy (participle present)
sold the dummy (participle past)
sold the dummy (past)

(sports) To succeed in deceiving an opposing player with a feigned action.


nursery cannon

See nurse (“to strike billiard balls gently”).

(billiards) A carom shot involving balls that are very close together.


long-slip

(cricket, dated) A fielder some distance behind and on the right of the batsman.


set shot

set shots (plural)
set-shot (alternative)

(basketball) A shot taken without jumping.


nursery slope

(skiing) A relatively undemanding slope for novices.


heel turn

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From heel (“rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg”) + turn; sense 2 (“act of turning around abruptly”) is derived from turn heel or turn on one’s heel.
Sense 4 (“situation in which a wrestler previously identified as a villain changes to being considered a hero”) is a pun on the word heel, which also means “a headlining wrestler whose ring persona embodies villainous or reprehensible traits”.

compound

The lady's step would then need to be drastically foreshortened, and would degenerate into a heel turn—not infrequent with beginners.

1951, Dancing Times, London: Dancing Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 235, column 2:

A second later, all I could think of was following Dad through the complex pattern of heel turns, weaves, spins and sweeping movements across the floor.

1996, Nicole Davidson, Dying to Dance (Avon Flare YA Horror), New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 69:

In some moves, such as a heel turn[…], the person dancing the heel turn cannot take a long second step, but the other person will.

2006, Paul Bottomer, “Slow Foxtrot”, in Dance Class: How to Waltz, Quick Step, Foxtrot, Tango, Samba, Salsa, Merengue, Lambada and Line Dance – Step-by-Step!, London: Southwater, Anness Publishing, →ISBN, page 234, column 1:

(dance) A ballroom dancing move in which the dancer steps backwards, shifts their weight on to the back foot, and turns on the heel of that foot while holding the other foot close and parallel to it.

Undoubtedly my old diagram was wrong in omitting to show cusps for the heel turns: […]

1880, George Anderson, “Instructions in Skating. Movements Performed on Both Feet.”, in The Art of Skating; […], 4th edition, London: Horace Cox, […], →OCLC, page 38:

Turn D, from outside backwards to inside forwards. This is also a heel turn, but is not so difficult as turn B; a considerable amount of practice, however, will be required before the skater will be able to do it with ease.

1894, Douglas Adams, “The Simple Turns”, in Skating. […] (The All-England Series), London, New York, N.Y.: George Bell & Sons, […], →OCLC, page 26:

The former of the heel turns, called turn D, can be learnt without a fall if taken at a very slow pace; […] if begun slowly and in the correct manner, it is not a figure which need cause a fall. This, unfortunately, cannot be said of the other heel turn, called the B turn, the pierre d'achoppement [stumbling block] of all skaters.

1897 March, Caroline Creyke, “Skating on Artificial Ice”, in James Knowles, editor, The Nineteenth Century: A Monthly Review, volume XLI, number CCXLI, New York, N.Y.: Leonard Scott Publication Co., […]; London: Sampson Law, Marston & Company, →OCLC, pages 479–480:

When you get a hammer in your hands and learn to turn faster, you will learn about the necessity of "sitting back" against the hammer pull at the low point so that your body weight will shift back to allow you to make the heel turn.

1985, Ken Doherty, Track and Field Omnibook, 4th edition, Los Altos, Calif.: Tafnews Press, →ISBN, page 280:

Heel turns are nearly a mirror image of toe turns: release the edge; pivot the back foot around the front; weight the heel edge and drive. […] First, keep your knees bent and driving forward with the turn. Many beginners push the board away from their bodies in a heel turn, straightening their legs in the process. Instinct tells them that that's the way to get the board on edge. Instead, drop your hips to the inside of the turn and drive with bent knees.

1991, Peter Shelton, “New Tools”, in The Snow Skier’s Bible, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 209:

Most new riders find heel-turns easier to learn than toe-turns. It's purely psychological. The mind likes facing downhill in the direction of travel better than it likes facing uphill while the body is traveling downhill. Eventually both turns will feel equally good. (No, make that GREAT.)

2002, Cindy Kleh, “Getting from Here to There (or Skating)”, in Snowboarding Skills: The Back-to-basics Essentials for All Levels (A Quintet Book), Enderby, Leicester: Silverdale Books, Bookmart, →ISBN, page 38, column 1:

As you enter the first turn, the plane of the hammer's orbit should be much flatter than that of the orbit during the winds. The orbital plane is also usually flatter when making a toe turn than when making a heel turn.

2003, Don Babbitt, “Hammer”, in Jay Silvester, editor, Complete Book of Throws, Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 137:

(chiefly skating, snowboarding) A turn executed by shifting weight on to the heel(s).

As a result of the heel turn, [Riki] Choshu was instantly elevated as a headliner and feuded with [Tatsumi] Fujinami in main events for two years over the WWF [World Wrestling Federation] International Heavyweight strap.

2002, John F. Molinaro, edited by Jeff Marek and Dave Meltzer, Top 100 Pro Wrestlers of All Time, Toronto, Ont.: Winding Stair Press, →ISBN, page 78, column 1:

The early 1999 destruction of [Ric] Flair in storyline fashion, even as Flair and Hulk Hogan were drawing the last of the company's great buy rates (although Flair's heel turn after drawing the last big buy rate for a SuperBrawl in San Francisco was Flair's own doing) was not a bunch of angles that were bad ideas, such as the period he was confined to a nut house (and somehow even made that drivel entertaining).

2004, Dave Meltzer, editor, Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Campbell, Calif.: Wrestling Observer Newsletter, page 1, column 2:

(professional wrestling) A situation in which a wrestler previously identified as a hero changes to being considered a villain

More than any other episode to date, “The Last Of The Starks” heralds Daenerys’ heel turn. She’s been poised for it for some time, though the timing varies depending on the character perspective—Varys has always been ready to fly to another camp if he felt something was amiss or he just found a more viable candidate, while Tyrion [Lannister] and Jon [Snow] still want to serve her.

2019 May 5, Danette Chavez, “Campaigns are Waged On and Off the Game Of Thrones Battlefield (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-01-28:

(by extension) A situation in which someone changes from being a hero into a villain.


return match

(sports) A second match played by the same set of players.


five-eighth

(rugby) A rugby position, one of the two half backs in a team, partnering the scrum-half.


magoos

2018 Sam Landsberger, Barometer: every club’s injury list and expert selection analysis Herald Sun, 6 August 2018. Accessed 11 May 2019.
Will Walker bobbed up late with an important goal and could not have done much more in just his second game of footy but with Shaun Higgins in the mix and with a shot at the finals still alive the youngster looks set to return to the magoos.

(Australia, rhyming slang, sports) A reserves team.


corner throw

(sports, in certain ball games) a throw made to restart play, e.g. in water polo after a defender was the last to touch the ball before it went over the goal line.


explosion shot

(golf) A powerful stroke that blasts the ball out of a bunker.


Wallaby

If the final margin was slightly harsh on a spirited Wallaby side it was hard-earned reward for England’s well-organised defence and the last-quarter power lurking on their bench.

2019 October 19, Robert Kitson, “England into World Cup semi-finals after bruising victory over Australia”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media:

(rugby) A player for the Wallabies, the Australian national rugby union team.


three-quarter time

en-noun

three-quarter time (countable and uncountable, plural three-quarter times)

three-quarter times (plural)
three quarter time (alternative)
three quarter-time (alternative)
three-quarter-time (alternative)
three quartertime (alternative)
three-quartertime (alternative)

2019 Ben Guthrie, AFL to enact heat policy for JLT this weekend Australian Football League, 1 March 2019. Accessed 13 May 2019.
The quarter-time and three-quarter time breaks will run for eight minutes (increased from six minutes), while the half-time changeover period has been extended to 22 minutes rather than the usual 20 minutes.

(sports) The interval between the third and fourth quarters of a sports match.


no-cut

(sports) Of a sportsman's clause or contract: guaranteeing that they will not be taken off the team during a designated period.

(sports) Of a sporting activity (in a school, etc.): allowing an unlimited number of participants, rather than members of a fixed-size team who must "make the cut".


quarter time

quarter times (plural)
quarter-time (alternative)
quartertime (alternative)

2019 Cameron Newbold and Tim Edmunds, Third quarter blitz guides Tigers to upset win Albany Advertiser, 12 May 2019. Accessed 13 May 2019.
Banks was sent off for the remainder of the game and Barrow received a yellow card for wrestling as the Kangas led by a solidarity point at quarter time.

(sports) The interval between the first and second quarters of a sports match.


three-quarter time
three-quarter time#English

(sports) Initialism of three-quarter time.


crunch game

(sports) A game in which a win or loss is decisive in determining a player or team's chance of winning the competition.


pony bottle

(underwater diving) A small diving cylinder fitted with an independent regulator, used as a backup in case of emergency.


gremmy

(surfing, skateboarding, slang) Synonym of gremlin (“a young or inexperienced surfer or skateboarder”)


gremmie

(surfing, skateboarding, slang) Alternative form of gremmy (“a young or inexperienced surfer or skateboarder”)


NJAC

(Canada, ice hockey) Abbreviation of national junior A championship.

(Canada, ice hockey) Abbreviation of national junior A champion.


Blue Bomber

(Canadian football) A player for the Canadian Football League's Winnipeg Blue Bombers.


Redblack

(Canadian football) A player for the Canadian Football League's Ottawa Redblacks


bottle it

en-verb

bottle it (third-person singular simple present bottles it, present participle bottling it, simple past and past participle bottled it)

bottles it (present singular third-person)
bottling it (participle present)
bottled it (participle past)
bottled it (past)

From Cockney rhyming slang bottle and glass, originally meaning arse. lose one's nerve was vulgarly lose one's arse, euphemised to lose one's bottle, clipped to bottle and subsequently given a dummy pronoun. See bottle.

For a while, it was a three-horse race and, if anything, it looked like José Mourinho's Chelsea were the team to beat. Chelsea bottled it, Liverpool beat Manchester City and the title was theirs to lose ... which they did in that match against Chelsea.

2022 October 6, James Richardson, The Totally Football Book, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

If you want to win Wimbledon, you have to be controlled mentally, but he's too volatile. He's just not a level-headed guy out there. He's had many chances and he's always bottled it.

2024 June 20, Katherine Reilly, Match Point: an enemies to lovers tennis romance perfect for fans of Wimbledon, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

(especially sports) To fail in an embarrassing way in a crucial situation, especially due to nerves.


break one's maiden

break one's maiden (third-person singular simple present breaks one's maiden, present participle breaking one's maiden, simple past broke one's maiden, past participle broken one's maiden)

breaks one's maiden (present singular third-person)
breaking one's maiden (participle present)
broke one's maiden (past)
broken one's maiden (participle past)

(horse racing) Of a racehorse or jockey: to achieve victory in a race for the first time.


Sabbath stick

(golf, historical) A golf club disguised as a walking stick (with the club's head held in the hand while walking) for use on Sundays, on which the Church of Scotland had discouraged the playing of golf.


drive for show, putt for dough

Chosen for the rhyme. See dough (“money”).

(golf, informal) Long drive shots may look impressive, but putting accuracy on the green is most important in order to win.


umpie

(sports, informal) Alternative form of umpy.


captain's goal

1999 Clive Tyldesley, Juventus 2–3 Manchester United ITV, 21 April 1999. Accessed 8 June 2019.
Roy Keane with a captain's goal for Manchester United — game on!

2019 Andrew Stafford, Lions outlast Swans at drenched Gabba The Age, 4 May 2019. Accessed 6 June 2019.
It took a captain's goal to Dayne Zorko, who played his best game for the season, to put an anxious crowd – still learning to expect to win – at ease.

(sports) A goal scored by a captain when their team is in need of inspiration.


captain's try

2003 Aussies crash out of Rugby Sevens ABC News, 5 December 2003. Accessed 8 June 2019.
The reigning world sevens champions were heading out of the tournament trailing 10-5 in the dying seconds of the quarter-final clash before a captain's try from Karl Te Nana brought them level at 10-10 and took the game to sudden death.

2014 Waratahs stay top in Australian division after win over Waikato Chiefs South China Morning Post, 1 June 2014. Accessed 8 June 2019.
A late surge by the NSW Waratahs, sparked by a captain's try from Dave Dennis, carried them to a 33-17 victory over the defending champions Waikato Chiefs in their Super Rugby clash on Saturday.

(rugby) A try scored by a captain when their team is in need of inspiration.


Whites

Directly opposite the imperial box in the Hippodrome were the seats assigned to the Blues, the Reds, the Whites, and the Greens. These were the colours of the chariot-racing factions, the professional organizations initially responsible for fielding the teams, though at some point in the fifth century they took charge of other public spectacles as well, and thus we can find factions even in cities which had no hippodromes.

2002, James Allan Stewart Evans, The Age of Justinian..., p. 36

(sports, historical) Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly white, particularly

(historical) The chariot-racing faction of the Roman circus and Constantinopolitan hippodrome that wore white.

1996, S. Greenfield, "When the Whites Go Marching In? Racism and Resistances in English Football", Marquette Sports Law Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, Art. 7, p. 315: #*: "When the Whites go Marching In" is a version of the hymn "When the Saints Go Marching In" and has been sung by football fans whilst attending "away" matches in other countries... In this context the reference is to English supporters indicating their disapproval of black players.

When the Whites go marching in, oh, when the Whites go marching in, oh, I wanna be in that number when the Whites go marching in!

(soccer, UK) The away team during international matches.


scrum feed

(rugby) The action, performed by the scrum-half, of feeding the ball into the scrum.


co-selector

(sports) A person involved with others in selecting team players.


reserve grade

(sports, Australia, New Zealand) A second division in a sporting league or competition.


reserve grader

(sports, Australia, New Zealand) A player in the reserve grade.


pre-match

(sports) Taking place before a match; preliminary to a match.


goalfest

(informal, sports) A game, or part of a game, during which many goals are scored.


skyrunning

I was photographing two of the best mountain runners in the world in a race that would soon become legendary in the world of trail, mountain, ultra and skyrunning: Transvulcania.

2016, Ian Corless, “Introduction”, in Running Beyond: Epic Ultra, Trail and Skyrunning Races, →ISBN:

(sports) An extreme sport involving running on mountains or at high altitude.


stand on one's head

stand on one's head (third-person singular simple present stands on one's head, present participle standing on one's head, simple past and past participle stood on one's head)

stands on one's head (present singular third-person)
standing on one's head (participle present)
stood on one's head (participle past)
stood on one's head (past)

(idiomatic, ice hockey, soccer) Of a goalie: to make exceptional saves.


knock in

knock in (third-person singular simple present knocks in, present participle knocking in, simple past and past participle knocked in)

knocks in (present singular third-person)
knocking in (participle present)
knocked in (participle past)
knocked in (past)

With the tension rising Brecel knocked in a timely 51 to leave himself on the brink of victory, which he confirmed with a stylish 112 break.

2023 May 1, Steve Sutcliffe, “World Snooker Championship 2023 final: Luca Brecel beats Mark Selby for first world title”, in BBC Sport:

(snooker, transitive) To score (a break)


golden set

(tennis) A set which is won without conceding any of the 24 points.


LFL

Lingerie Football League
w:en:Lingerie Football League

(sports, American football) Initialism of Lingerie Football League.

Legends Football League
w:en:Legends Football League

(sports, American football) Initialism of Legends Football League.


tubeset

tubesets (plural)
tube set (alternative)

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(cycling) The set of metal tubes that make up the frame of the bicycle


most valuable player

en-noun

most valuable player (plural most valuable players)

(sports) A player chosen as having made the best contribution to a team during a match, often awarded a small prize.


campus board

(climbing) A piece of training equipment consisting of thin horizontal slats affixed to a larger, inclined vertical board. The climber uses only their hands to ascend.


Lioness

(soccer) A player for England women's national football team


on the boil

(sports, colloquial) Playing exceptionally well.

(sports, rugby, colloquial) (Of a player taking a pass) running at full speed towards the opposition.


off the boil

(sports, colloquial) No longer playing exceptionally well.


lay one down

en-verb

lay one down (third-person singular simple present lays one down, present participle laying one down, simple past and past participle laid one down)

lays one down (present singular third-person)
laying one down (participle present)
laid one down (participle past)
laid one down (past)

Martin laid one down to get Buckley over to second.

(intransitive, baseball, slang) To bunt (sense 4)


towboard

(sports) A skateboard or snowboard towed by a vehicle


long-stop

long-stop (third-person singular simple present long-stops, present participle long-stopping, simple past and past participle long-stopped)

long-stops (present singular third-person)
long-stopping (participle present)
long-stopped (participle past)
long-stopped (past)

(intransitive, cricket) To field in the role of long stop.


boundary four

It meant England were crowned world champions by virtue of having scored more boundary fours and sixes - 26 to New Zealand's 17 - in the entire match.

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

(cricket) A four scored by hitting the ball past the boundary (rather than an all-run four)


all-run four

(cricket) A four scored by the two batsmen running four times between the wickets


Black Cap

New Zealand stuck doggedly to a plan that centred on batting patience. Henry Nicholls' 55, and 47 from Tom Latham, held things together in the face of some probing England bowling.
The value of the Black Caps' pragmatism in reaching 241-8 was shown when England came to bat.

(cricket) A player for the New Zealand national cricket team


come to bat

come to bat (third-person singular simple present comes to bat, present participle coming to bat, simple past came to bat, past participle come to bat)

comes to bat (present singular third-person)
coming to bat (participle present)
came to bat (past)
come to bat (participle past)

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In that case, the player who was called out for failure to come to bat properly is charged with having been put out, and whatever happened that resulted in the improper batter being put out goes into the scoring box of the batter who failed to bat in proper turn.

2015, Andres Wirkmaa, The Complete Baseball Scorekeeping Handbook, →ISBN:

(cricket, baseball) To have one's turn at bat.


come home

come home (third-person singular simple present comes home, present participle coming home, simple past came home, past participle come home)

comes home (present singular third-person)
coming home (participle present)
came home (past)
come home (participle past)

The sport usage was popularised by the 1996 song "Three Lions", which contains the phrase "it's coming home", referring to the UEFA Euro 1996 championship hosted in England, the birthplace of association football.

(sports, of a sport) To achieve success (typically by winning an international competition) in the country in which the sport was invented.


on the rails

(horse racing) Racing toward the inside, near the fence that bounds the track.


bare-knuckle

The bare-knuckle boxing era ended in the early 20th century, when gloves were introduced, stricter rules implemented and oversight organizations formed.

2009, David Lindholm, Ulf Karlsson, Bare-Knuckle Boxer's Companion, →ISBN:

In bare-knuckle fights, one of the most frequent injuries is a broken hand.

2012, Ken Shamrock, Richard Hanner, Inside the Lion's Den, →ISBN:

He was known as a tough bare-knuckle boxer and had already consolidated a reputation from his teenage years, when he had first thrown his fists in anger.

2013, Eamon Dillon, Gypsy Empire, →ISBN, page 126:

The difference between a street fight and a bare-knuckle boxing match is an accepted set of rules, such as not striking a downed opponent.

2015, Patrick White, The Legends of Bare-knuckle Boxing: The History & the Champions, →ISBN:


baggy green

(cricket) The cap worn by members of the Australia Test cricket team


play fine

play fine (third-person singular simple present plays fine, present participle playing fine, simple past and past participle played fine)

plays fine (present singular third-person)
playing fine (participle present)
played fine (participle past)
played fine (past)

(billiards) To strike the object ball near the edge.


play full

play full (third-person singular simple present plays full, present participle playing full, simple past and past participle played full)

plays full (present singular third-person)
playing full (participle present)
played full (participle past)
played full (past)

(billiards) To strike the object ball nearer to its centre than its edge.


Red Star

(soccer) Red Star Belgrade (a professional football club from Belgrade, Serbia)


combined event

(athletics) any of the disciplines in athletics (track and field) that combine more than one other discipline: typically one of the indoor pentathlon (women), indoor heptathlon (men), outdoor heptathlon (women), or outdoor decathlon (men).


road event

(athletics) an athletics (track and field) discipline that takes place on a road: typically one of a 5K or 10K run, a half marathon or marathon run, or a 20K or 50K racewalk.