put up the shutters

put up the shutters (third-person singular simple present puts up the shutters, present participle putting up the shutters, simple past and past participle put up the shutters)

puts up the shutters (present singular third-person)
putting up the shutters (participle present)
put up the shutters (participle past)
put up the shutters (past)

(cricket) To bat defensively in the last innings of a match in order to force a draw when winning is not possible.


fly ball

fly balls (plural)
flyball (alternative)

(baseball, softball) A batted ball that has been hit into the air above the outfield; a fly.


pop-up

(baseball) A pop-up ball: a ball that has been hit to a considerable height above the infield or the shallow outfield; a pop fly.


ground ball

(baseball) A batted ball that bounces one or more times on the infield; a grounder.

(lacrosse) A loose ball that is on the ground during play.


grounder

From Middle English grounder, grownder, equivalent to ground + -er.


infield hit

Jones got an infield hit when the ball tipped off of the outstretched glove of the diving shortstop.

(baseball) When a batter reaches base with a ground ball that does not leave the infield or shallow outfield.


shortstop

The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.

“Your father was the best baseball player anyone had ever seen.” Excited but halting, her voice ran on past all obstacles. “We watched him play shortstop, and my father said he was the best, and my brothers too. The Cardinals sent a man down to talk to him about one of their teams.” Like an ancient marineress, she would not let go. She meant the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm teams.

2016, Mike Westphal, Cloud of Expectation; Book One: The In America Series, Xlibris, →ISBN:

(baseball) The infield defensive player that stands between the second baseman and the third baseman.

interbase

baseball: defensive player between second and third baseman


first baseman

First basemen are usually left-handed.

(baseball) The infield defensive player that stands near first base.


second baseman

The second baseman started the 4-6-3 double play.

(baseball) The infield defensive player that stands between the first baseman and the shortstop, normally on the right field side of second base.


third baseman

The third baseman charged in to field the bunt.

(baseball) The infield defensive player that stands near third base.

kolmosvahti

baseball: defensive player near third base


at-bat

This is his third at-bat of the night.

He only had 220 at-bats this season because of injury.

(baseball) official at-bats. Batting opportunities minus walks, hit by pitches, and sacrifices


zip code

zip codes (plural)
zipcode (alternative)
ZIP Code (alternative)
ZIP code (alternative)
Zip Code (alternative)
Zip code (alternative)

United States Postal Service
ZIP Code
Zone Improvement Plan

From ZIP Code, a trademark of the United States Postal Service, from ZIP (“Zone Improvement Plan”), introduced 1963.

Wallace and Brewer are almost certain to finish 1-2 in some order – no one else is even in the same zip code.

(sports, by extension) A grouping of athletes or teams with similar skill level.


amplitude

en-noun

amplitude (countable and uncountable, plural amplitudes)

Borrowed from Middle French amplitude, from Latin amplitūdō, from amplus (“large”). By surface analysis, ample + -itude.

(gymnastics) The range of motion of the gymnast's body while performing a skill.


corkscrew

[…] the immovable McCoy let fly his most miraculous punch of the evening, of his lives, a world-beater of a right corkscrew, a punch years in the windup […]

2002, Darin Strauss, The Real McCoy, →ISBN, page 42:

(boxing, martial arts) A type of sharp, twisting punch, often one thrown close and from the side.

コークスクリュー

boxing, martial arts: a type of sharp, twisting punch


no contest

Calque of Latin nolō contendere (“I don't want to contest”).

cal

(boxing, historical) The result of a boxing bout, promoted as an exhibition when the sport of boxing was illegal, when a knockout did not occur.

(boxing) A bout that the referee cancels early, either due to a serious injury early in the fight or due to a lack of action


sprawl

en-verb

sprawl (third-person singular simple present sprawls, present participle sprawling, simple past and past participle sprawled)

sprawls (present singular third-person)
sprawling (participle present)
sprawled (participle past)
sprawled (past)

From Middle English spraulen, from Old English spreawlian, ultimately through a Proto-Germanic form cognate with *spreutaną (“to sprout”) from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”). Compare North Frisian spraweli.

(wrestling, martial arts) To scoot the legs backwards, so as to land on the upper back of an opponent attempting a takedown.


sprawl

en-noun

sprawl (countable and uncountable, plural sprawls)

(wrestling, martial arts) A defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, where one scoots the legs backwards so as to land on the upper back of the opponent.


shortie

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They got a shortie at the start of the third.

(ice hockey, informal) A short-handed goal.


two-minute warning

two-minute warning (plural two-minute warnings)

(American football) In the NFL, a timeout and warning given to the coaches with two minutes to go before the end of each half.


encounter

From Middle English encountren, from Anglo-Norman encountrer, Old French encontrer (“to confront”), from encontre (“against, counter to”), from Late Latin incontrā (“in front of”) itself from Latin in (“in”) + contrā (“against”).

Andre Santos equalised and the outstanding Theo Walcott put Arsenal ahead for the first time before Juan Mata's spectacular strike set up the finale for an enthralling encounter.

2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:

(sports) A match between two opposing sides.


halfback

From half + back, in reference to position on the field of play; compare fullback.
In the sense of someone who moves to Florida and then to a more temperate climate, from moving "half way back"

(field sports) A player who occupies one of these positions.

(American football) An offensive back whose primary jobs are to carry the ball on running plays and to serve as a receiver or blocker on passing plays.

(Canadian football) A defensive back whose primary jobs are to cover the slotback on passing plays and prevent running plays from going to the outside.

(rugby) The player who feeds the ball into the scrum, and receives the ball as it emerges from the back of the scrum.


fly out

en-verb

fly out (third-person singular simple present flies out, present participle flying out, simple past flew out or (baseball) flied out, past participle flown out or (baseball) flied out)

flies out (present singular third-person)
flying out (participle present)
flew out (past)
flied out (past)
flown out (participle past)
flied out (participle past)

Jones flied out to right field.

(intransitive, baseball) To become out by hitting a fly ball which is caught.


fly out

fly outs (plural)
flyout (alternative)
fly-out (alternative)

A fly out was recorded on the scorecard.


field goal

field goals (plural)
drop-kick (alternative)
field-goal (alternative)

He kicked a 33 yard field goal just before the half.

Sure, Homer and Marge being caught naked in front of the town is funny, but why not make it total humiliation? Why not have Homer dragged ass-first over a church’s glass ceiling and force the pastor to give praise to God’s floors? Why not have Homer’s rear end block a game-winning field goal?

2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club:

(American football, Canadian football) A kick of the ball through the uprights and over the crossbar (not after a touchdown). It scores 3 points.

He got six field goals in the first half, two from three-point land.

(basketball) A shot that is scored while the ball is in play (i.e. not a free throw).

(rugby) A goal scored where a ball that is in play but on the ground is kicked through the uprights and over the crossbar.


offensive tackle

en-noun

offensive tackle (plural offensive tackles)

One of the few surprises saw the New York Giants take offensive tackle Andrew Thomas at number four while the Buccaneers traded up to 13 for offensive tackle Tristian Wirfs to give some protection to their new quarterback Brady.

2020 April 24, “NFL draft 2020: Joe Burrow first pick for Cincinnati Bengals”, in BBC Sport:

(American football) A lineman for the team in possession of the ball located outside one of the guard positions.

bloquejador

lineman outside guard position in the offensive team


defensive tackle

defensive tackle (plural defensive tackles)

(American football) Any of a few defensive positions in the middle of the defensive line.


tight end

National Football League
New England Patriots
Rob Gronkowski
Tampa Bay Buccaneers

From tight (“of a space, arrangement, etc.: narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it”) + end (“position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line; player playing this position”), from the fact that the player takes up a position close to the tackle.

近端鋒 /近端锋

(American football, Canadian football) position at the end of the offensive line

Jones played tight end.

The position at the end of the offensive line whose primary jobs are to block and serve as a short receiver.

The tight end caught the pass.

He has also written about some on the Right’s aversion to the N.F.L., particularly as some concoct convoluted conspiracy theories involving singer Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, the Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, while others denounce professional sports as a whole.

2024 February 11, Jane Coaston, “What MAGA Influencers Are Missing About Football”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A player (called an end) playing the position of tight end (sense 1.1).

ala tancat

(American football, Canadian football) player playing the position of tight end

The position at the end of the offensive line whose primary jobs were to block and serve as a short receiver; this position is no longer used.

A player (called an end) playing the position of tight end (sense 2.1).


split end

Jones played split end.

offensive line of scrimmage
offensive line of scrimmage

(American football) The position which lines up wide and on the offensive line of scrimmage, whose primary job is to serve as a wide receiver.

The split end ran deep.

(American football) A player playing the position of split end.


retire hurt

en-verb

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

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

(intransitive, cricket) To stop batting because of having sustained an injury.


return crease

(cricket) One of the white lines, perpendicular to the popping crease, within which the bowler's back foot must land.


reverse sweep

(cricket) A batsman's shot made by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc from leg to off, normally whilst kneeling.

(sports) The act of winning a match after losing every set up to the maximum number where, should you lose one more set, you would instead lose the match.


reverse sweep

reverse sweep (third-person singular simple present reverse sweeps, present participle reverse sweeping, simple past and past participle reverse swept)

reverse sweeps (present singular third-person)
reverse sweeping (participle present)
reverse swept (participle past)
reverse swept (past)


reverse swing

(cricket) Sideways movement of the old ball through the air in the opposite direction to normal swing.


ring field

(cricket) An attacking ring of infielders, square and in front of the wicket: point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket, square leg.


roller

→ Welsh: rholer

* From Middle English rollere, equivalent to roll + -er.
* (credits in TV or film): These were originally printed on a physical cylinder that was rotated in front of the camera.

(cricket) A large rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch.

(cycling) One of a set of rolling cylinders allowing a rider to practise balance while training indoors.


run chase

(cricket) the situation in which the side batting last need to score a certain number of runs to win; the effort made by such a side to win


run out

run out (third-person singular simple present runs out, present participle running out, simple past ran out, past participle run out)

runs out (present singular third-person)
running out (participle present)
ran out (past)
run out (participle past)

Jackson was run out for a duck in the first over.

With three runs needed from two balls, Adil Rashid was run out coming back for a second. When Wood suffered the same fate from the final ball, the match was tied.

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

(cricket) To get a batsman out (dismissed from play) via a runout.


run rate

(cricket) The number of runs scored by a side divided by the number of overs taken to score them.


run up

run up (third-person singular simple present runs up, present participle running up, simple past ran up, past participle run up)

runs up (present singular third-person)
running up (participle present)
ran up (past)
run up (participle past)

He runs up... and bowls. Smashed away for four runs!

(cricket) Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.


ground out

ground out (third-person singular simple present grounds out, present participle grounding out, simple past and past participle grounded out)

grounds out (present singular third-person)
grounding out (participle present)
grounded out (participle past)
grounded out (past)

Jones grounded out to lead off the third.

(baseball) To become out by hitting a ground ball which is fielded and leads to a force or tag of a runner.


ground out

ground outs (plural)
groundout (alternative)

A ground out was recorded on the scorecard.

(baseball) An instance of grounding out.


late innings

He is at his best in the late innings.

(baseball) The seventh, eighth, and ninth innings of a game.


punch out

punch out (third-person singular simple present punches out, present participle punching out, simple past and past participle punched out)

punches out (present singular third-person)
punching out (participle present)
punched out (participle past)
punched out (past)

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The ump punched out the batter with relish to close out the game.

(transitive, baseball) To rule (by an umpire) that a pitch is a called third strike, often done emphatically.

Jones punched out the batter to start in the sixth.

(transitive, baseball, of a pitcher) To throw a called third strike; to strike (someone) out.


punch out

(baseball) Nonstandard spelling of punchout.


oh for

oh fors (plural)
ofer (alternative)
o-fer (alternative)
oh fer (alternative)
ohfer (alternative)
ofor (alternative)
o-for (alternative)
ohfor (alternative)

Jones has gone oh for on his scoring opportunities this season.

(sports) A game or time period in which a player did not manage to sustain a particular attainment.

Yesterday's oh for made him overly aggressive today at the plate.

(baseball) An instance in which a player did not get a hit in a game.


ride the pine

ride the pine (third-person singular simple present rides the pine, present participle riding the pine, simple past rode the pine, past participle ridden the pine)

rides the pine (present singular third-person)
riding the pine (participle present)
rode the pine (past)
ridden the pine (participle past)

Jones rode the pine much of the season.

(idiomatic, sports) To sit on the bench, to not be used in a game.


pinch hit

Jones drove in a run with a pinch hit for Smith in the sixth.

(baseball) A hit made by a pinch hitter.


pine tar

en-noun

pine tar (usually uncountable, plural pine tars)

(baseball) This or a similar material used by batters to improve their grip.


goon

→ Portuguese: guna

Alice the Goon
Peter Sellers
Popeye
Spike Milligan
The Goon Show

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōm
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm
Proto-Indo-European *-ō
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ
Proto-Germanic *gumô
Proto-West Germanic *gumō
Old English guma
Middle English gone?
English gooney
English goon
Shortened from gooney, from obsolete gony (“simpleton”), used circa 1580, of unknown origin. Perhaps a familiar term derived from Middle English gone, a variant of gome (“man, person”). Gony was applied by sailors to the albatross and similar big, clumsy birds (circa 1839). The term goon first carried the meaning "stupid person" (circa 1921). Compare Scots goni, guni (“a bogey, bugbear, hobgoblin”), dialectal Swedish gonnar (“elves, goblins”, plural).
* Sense 1 ("hired thug"; circa 1938) is largely influenced by the comic strip character Alice the Goon from the Popeye series.
* Sense 3 ("fool") was reinforced by the popular radio program, The Goon Show, starring Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers.
* Sense 5 ("guard") was influenced by both sense 1 and sense 3, though not by The Goon Show reference, which arose about 10 years after WWII.

unk

unknown

cog

[…]a scout from the Flames came down from Saskatoon, said, "There's always room on our team for a goon"

2002, “Hit Somebody!”, performed by Warren Zevon:

(ice hockey, derogatory) An enforcer or fighter.


goon

en-verb

goon (third-person singular simple present goons, present participle gooning, simple past and past participle gooned)

goons (present singular third-person)
gooning (participle present)
gooned (participle past)
gooned (past)

unk

unknown

The 23-year-old posted some photos on Instagram on Saturday of himself gooning around for the camera.

2015 December 27, “Dennis Quaid's son Jack posts hilarious photo posing with his dad and siblings pulling faces on Christmas Day”, in The Daily Mail, archived from the original on 2016-01-24:

Imagine losing to a team that gooned it up and attempted to take out your best players with heavy hits?

2019 June 13, Dan Shaughnessy, “What experts are saying about the Bruins' Stanley Cup loss”, in The Boston Globe, archived from the original on 2022-12-22:

Obviously, we wanted to kill Kozlov. We thought it was the dirtiest thing in the world. Things picked up after that. We were out for blood after that. We didn't goon them. They gooned us, really, and we just had to respond.

2022 June 24, David Fleming, quoting Mike Ricci, “Fight Night at the Joe: Remembering the legendary Colorado Avalanche-Detroit Red Wings brawl of 1997”, in ESPN, archived from the original on 2022-12-22:

(transitive, slang, ice hockey) To act like a goon; to act in an intimidating or aggressive way towards opponents.


ROC

Translingual: ROC

(sports) Abbreviation of Russia(n) Olympic Committee.

COR

Russian Olympic Committee, an organization

Coordinate term: IROC

(motor racing) Abbreviation of Race of Champions.


Canuck

Canucks (plural)
canuck (alternative)
Canack (alternative)
Cannack (alternative)
Canuc (alternative)
canuc (alternative)
Canuk (alternative)
Conuck (alternative)
Cunnuck (alternative)
Kanuck (alternative)
Kanuk (alternative)
K'nuck (alternative)

American Dialect Society
Greenwood Publishing Group
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Leiden University
University of Alabama Press

Origin uncertain, often hypothesized to derive from the name or speech of an early Canadian minority, later broadened to denote all Canadians:
* Since 1975, many scholars have come to think the name is from Hawaiian kanaka (“man”), a self-appellation of indentured colonial canoemen and Hawaiian sailors working off the Pacific Northwest, Arctic, and New England coasts, from French canaque (“indigenous Melanesian inhabitant of New Caledonia, Kanak”); or, more likely, American whalers’ pidgin, then re-interpreted as Can(adian) + a suffix. (More below on that [specific] putative suffix.) Compare English Kanak and German Kanake.
* Some dictionaries suggest it is derived from the first syllable of Canada, or its etymon Laurentian kanata (“village”), or a related word kanuchsa meaning “villager” in either Laurentian or another Iroquoian language; with the second syllable connected to Inuktitut inuk (“man; person”), from Chinook (“Aboriginal people of the U.S. Pacific Northwest”), or another First-Nation language ending like -oc, -uc, or -uq.
* Fanciful and unlikely suggestions include German genug von Canada (literally “enough of Canada”) (allegedly uttered by German mercenaries during the American War of Independence), French quelle canule (“what a bore”) (allegedly uttered by the French during a siege of Quebec), or the surname Connaught /ˈkɑ.nəxt/ (supposedly a French-Canadian nickname for the Irish).

noncog

French Canadian
French Canadian#Adjective

(Canada, US, informal, sometimes derogatory) A Canadian person; specifically (archaic), a French Canadian person; a pea-souper; also (obsolete) a Canadian person of other non-English descent.

(ice hockey) A member of the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.

Canucksin pelaaja

(skiing) Chiefly as Crazy Canuck: a member of the Canadian alpine ski team.


Canuck

en-adj

Canuck (comparative more Canuck, superlative most Canuck)

more Canuck (comparative)
most Canuck (superlative)

(ice hockey) Of or relating to the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.

Canucks-joukkueen

of or relating to the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team


incision

en-noun

incision (countable and uncountable, plural incisions)

From Middle English inscicioun, from Middle French incision, from Late Latin incisiō from the verb incidō (“I cut into”) + action noun suffix -iō.

Riyad Mahrez also dragged wide after a De Bruyne incision.

2021 March 7, David Hytner, “Manchester United catch City cold as Fernandes and Shaw end winning run”, in The Guardian:


relay

From Middle French relai (“reserve pack of hounds”), from relaier (“to exchange tired animals for fresh”); literally, "to leave behind", from Old French relaier (“to leave behind”), from re- + laier (“to leave”), of uncertain origin.

смяна

a new set of anything that can be used to relieve the existing set when worn out

váltó

competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action — see also relay race

(sports) A competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action.

(athletics) A track and field discipline where runners take turns in carrying a baton from start to finish. The most common events are 4×100 meter and 4×400 meter competitions.


offensive line

(American football, Canadian football) The five players of the team possessing the ball comprising the center, the left and right offensive guards, and the left and right offensive tackles who are positioned around the ball at the line of scrimmage.

(American football, Canadian football, uncommon) The seven players required to be within one yard of the line of scrimmage in an offensive formation.

(American football, Canadian football, uncommon) All of the offensive players, whether obligatory or not, lined up one yard or less from the line of scrimmage.


lateral pass

(American football) a pass thrown laterally and that counts as a hand-off

(American football) any hand-off, whether lateral or backward


backward pass

(American football) A pass thrown backwards instead of forward, equivalent in the rules to a hand-off.


smear

en-verb

smear (third-person singular simple present smears, present participle smearing, simple past and past participle smeared)

smears (present singular third-person)
smearing (participle present)
smeared (participle past)
smeared (past)

From Middle English smeren, smerien, from Old English smerian, smyrian, smierwan (“to anoint or rub with grease, oil, etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *smirwijan, from Proto-Germanic *smirwijaną. Doublet of schmear.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian smeere, Dutch smeren, Low German smeren, German schmieren.

(climbing) To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.


smear

en-noun

smear (countable and uncountable, plural smears)

(climbing) A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact


triple double

→ Norwegian Bokmål: trippel-dobbel

Yes, the Knicks had fallen prey to the habitual wizardry of the Thunder star Russell Westbrook, who had 27 points, 18 rebounds and 14 assists, his third straight triple-double and his eighth in 19 games this season.

2016 November 28, Mike Vorkunov, “Despite Flash of Rose’s Prime, Knicks Are Dazed by Westbrook and Thunder”, in The New York Times:

(basketball) The achievement of a two-digit number of any three of points scored, assists, rebounds, blocks, or steals in a single game.


quadruple double

Norwegian Bokmål: firdobbel-dobbel

(basketball) The achievement of a two-digit number of any four of points scored, assists, rebounds, blocks, or steals in a single game.


quintuple double

quintuple double (plural quintuple doubles)

Norwegian Bokmål: femdobbel-dobbel

(basketball) The achievement of a two-digit number of all five of points scored, assists, rebounds, blocks, and steals in a single game.


hookah

hookahs (plural)
hooka (alternative)
hooker (alternative)
houka (alternative)
hukka (alternative)
hukkah (alternative)
huqqa (alternative)
huqqah (alternative)

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Borrowed from Hindustani حقہ / हुक़्क़ा (huqqā) and , in turn, derived from Arabic حُقَّة (ḥuqqa, “pot, jar”), from حُقّ (ḥuqq, “cavity, hollow”).

(underwater diving) A tankless surface air compressor pump and umbilical piping system that supplies air to a diving mask.


septime

(fencing) The seventh defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at knee level.


sector

Sector (Star Trek)
Sector (instrument)
sector

(motor racing) A fixed, continuous section of the track, such that sectors do not overlap but all sectors make up the whole track.

(climbing) An area of a crag, consisting of various routes


plateau

Borrowed from French plateau, diminutive of plat (“a plate”); see plate. Doublet of platter.

(sports, broadcasting) A notable level of attainment or achievement.


scorecard

scorecards (plural)
score card (alternative)
score-card (alternative)

(cricket) A tabular representation of the most important statistics of an innings or match.


seamer

From Middle English semer, semere, from Old English sēamere (“tailor; seamer”), equivalent to seam + -er.

(cricket) A bowler skilled at making the ball seam.


second new ball

second new ball (plural second new balls)

(cricket) The first replacement new ball in an innings; in Test cricket, usually taken after 80 overs.


bus stop

bus stops (plural)
busstop (alternative)

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bus stop chicane
bus stop chicane#English

(motor racing) Ellipsis of bus stop chicane.


the Ashes

From a satirical obituary published in an English newspaper after its loss to Australia in 1882, announcing the death of English cricket and that "the body would be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia".

(cricket) A trophy played for by England and Australia in Test cricket; in the form of a small urn containing the ashes of a cremated cricket stump or set of bails.

(cricket) A series of Test cricket matches played between England and Australia.

(rugby league, sports, by extension) A nominal trophy contested by England and Australia in other sports, especially rugby league.

(rugby league, sports) A series of such test matches.


-burger

Rebracketing of hamburger, as if it were ham + burger.

-burger

suffix used to make names for hamburger-like dishes

Let's start with Harden's 60-burger against Atlanta: His 24 shot attempts were the fewest ever in a 60-point game in NBA history.

2019 December 3, Kirk Goldsberry, James Harden is the greatest scorer of this NBA era, ESPN:

(US, sports) Used to emphasise a high number of points scored by a player or team.


skiing

Editor John Torinus could enlighten us on wineology, crosscountry skiing, sailing and the joys and pains of being an editor.

1975 August 24, Knauf, “Let’s chip in, buy Novitiate”, in Sunday Post-Crescent, page B-3:

(sports) A group of sports using skis as primary equipment.


horsehide

horsehide (countable and uncountable, plural horsehides)


hand out

(baseball, slang, 1800s) a player is out


muffin

→ Chinese: 瑪芬 /玛芬 (mǎfēn)

→ Danish: muffin

→ Esperanto: mafino

→ Finnish: muffini, muffinssi, muffinsi

→ French: muffin

→ German: Muffin

→ Japanese: マフィン (mafin)

→ Korean: 머핀 (meopin)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: muffins

→ Polish: muffin

→ Portuguese: muffin

→ Russian: ма́ффин (máffin)

→ Swedish: muffins

→ Yiddish: מאָפֿין (mofin)

From earlier moofin, probably a diminutive of Low German Muffe ("small cake"; Muffen (plural)), from Middle Low German muffe (“small pastry”). An alternative, and phonologically less plausible theory suggests a connection to Old French (pain) moflet (“roll”, literally “soft (bread)”).

gl

"small cake"; <i class="Latn mention" lang="nds">Muffen</i> (plural)

ncog

(baseball, slang) A less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball.

(ice hockey, slang) A very weak shot in ice hockey where the puck does not travel fast.


break one off

en-verb

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

breaks one off (present singular third-person)
breaking one off (participle present)
broke one off (past)
broken one off (participle past)

(baseball, dated, slang, 1800s) To throw a curve ball.


side out

(slang, baseball, dated, 19th c.) three outs.


sky ball

(baseball, slang, 1800s) A high fly ball


stringer

(sports) A person who plays on a particular string.

(surfing) Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.

(baseball, slang, 1800s) A hard-hit ball.


selector

(cricket) An administrator responsible for selecting which players will play for a side.


foul tick

The catcher held onto the foul tick for the out.

(baseball, slang, rare) A foul ball which just brushes by the bat, making a ticking sound.


foul tip

The foul tip hit the umpire in the shoulder.

(baseball) a foul ball which glances off the bat and continues back with only a moderate change in direction


thrower

(cricket) A bowler who illegally throws the ball instead of bowling it.


feeder

From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed + -er.

(baseball, slang, archaic, 1800s) The pitcher.


force out

force out (third-person singular simple present forces out, present participle forcing out, simple past and past participle forced out)

forces out (present singular third-person)
forcing out (participle present)
forced out (participle past)
forced out (past)
force-out (alternative)
forceout (alternative)

Jones forced out Smith to end the inning.

(baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground


force out

force outs (plural)
force-out (alternative)
forceout (alternative)

A force out was recorded on the scorecard.

(baseball) An instance of an out created by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.


sacrifice bunt

The sacrifice bunt was fielded cleanly, but the only play was to first.

The manager will likely call for a sacrifice bunt here.

(baseball) A play in which the batter intentionally hits the ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance at the cost of an out to advance one or more runners.

sacrifici

play in which the batter intentionally hits the ball softly at the cost of an out


sacrifice fly

Jones' sacrifice fly brought in the tying run.

(baseball) A fly ball that allowed a runner to advance after it was caught


drag bunt

Jones fielded the drag bunt, but the runner beat out his throw for a single.

(baseball) A ball that has been hit by a batter who started to run towards first base while holding the bat back over the plate, typically in an attempt to get a hit rather than to sacrifice

The drag bunt is a skill that few players perfect.

(baseball) The act of bunting while running towards first base


drag bunt

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

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

Jones drag bunted the pitch.

(baseball, transitive) to bunt while running towards first base

Smith often drag bunts if he sees the third baseman playing back.

(baseball, intransitive) to bunt while running towards first base


push bunt

The push bunt went between the pitcher and the first baseman who was charging too hard.

(baseball) A ball that has been hit with a bat which moves forward by a batter who is in an arms spread stance, usually in an attempt to bunt the ball past a charging infielder

The push bunt is only used in certain situations.

(baseball) The act of bunting with a bat that moves toward the ball


push bunt

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

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

Jones push bunted the pitch.

(transitive, baseball) to bunt while moving the bat towards the ball

Smith push bunts if an infielder charges too aggressively.

(intransitive, baseball) to bunt while moving the bat towards the ball


dead-red

The pitch was a dead-red.


sit dead-red

sit dead-red (third-person singular simple present sits dead-red, present participle sitting dead-red, simple past and past participle sat dead-red)

sits dead-red (present singular third-person)
sitting dead-red (participle present)
sat dead-red (participle past)
sat dead-red (past)

Popularized by broadcaster and former player Joe Morgan.

If I were him, I would sit dead-red on this 3 and 1 pitch and try to launch one.

(baseball) For a batter to look for a four-seam fastball.


fastball count

Batters will often sit dead-red when there is a fastball count.

(baseball) A pitch count such that a fastball is likely to be thrown, usually 3-0 or 3-1.


swinging bunt

The catcher fielded Jones' swinging bunt and easily threw him out.

(baseball) A ball that travels a short distance as if it were bunted, but was produced by a full or checked swing.


AT

en-noun

AT (countable and uncountable, plural ATs)

anaerobic threshold
anaerobic threshold#English

(US, sports) Initialism of anaerobic threshold.


columns

(juggling) pattern which involves throwing props in the air alternately.


steamer

From steam + -er. The steamer duck or steamer (sense 6.2) is apparently named for its resemblance to a paddle steamer when swimming rapidly.

(horse racing) A racehorse the odds of which are becoming shorter (that is, decreasing) because bettors are backing it.


CIS

Canadian Interuniversity Sport
w:Canadian Interuniversity Sport

(Canada, sports, historical) Initialism of Canadian Interuniversity Sport.

Clark International Speedway
w:Clark International Speedway

(Philippines, motor racing) Initialism of Clark International Speedway.


ump

If you take it to court, you're the guy who screams at the ump ’cause they don't like the call at the plate.

2006, Eli Attie and John Wells, The West Wing, season 7, episode 17 “Election Day Part II”


sleeper

(martial arts, wrestling) A sleeper hold.


second session

(cricket) the session of a day's play between lunch and tea


third session

(cricket) the session of a day's play between tea and close of play


second slip

(cricket) The fielding position between first slip and third slip.


sheet anchor

sheet anchors (plural)
sheet-anchor (alternative)

(cricket) A batsman who provides dependable defence while a series of other batsmen score rapidly.


short leg

short leg (countable and uncountable, plural short legs)

When he dismissed Keith Miller, caught at short leg off a lifter, I turned round to Tony Lock[.]

1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 148:

(cricket, uncountable) A fielding position on the leg side, square of, and close to the batsman.

(cricket, countable) A fielder in this position.


short of a length

(idiomatic, cricket) of a ball that pitches short of a good length; a ball that bounces closer to the bowler than the area of the pitch regarded as the best for dismissing or restricting the scoring of the batsman.


attacker

(soccer) One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.

مُهَاجِم

(soccer) movement of the team in possession of the ball


shoulder arms

en-verb

shoulder arms (third-person singular simple present shoulders arms, present participle shouldering arms, simple past and past participle shouldered arms)

shoulders arms (present singular third-person)
shouldering arms (participle present)
shouldered arms (participle past)
shouldered arms (past)

(intransitive, cricket) To deliberately lift the bat out of the path of the ball when it is judged to be missing the wicket.


sightscreen

The batsman swung and thwacked it behind him over the sight-screens.

1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 24:

(cricket) A large screen, at each end of a cricket field, coloured to provide visual contrast to the cricket ball, to aid the batsman in seeing its movement through the air.


boodler

(slang, baseball, dated, 19th century) A person displaying unsportsmanlike behavior.


daisy cutter

daisy cutters (plural)
daisy-cutter (alternative)
daisycutter (alternative)

* From plowing through a field and flattening and mowing down hypothetical daisies.
* (explosive): From flattening vegetation in a round region creating a clearing reminiscent of a daisy flower

(baseball, slang, dated, 1800s) A well-struck ground ball.

(cricket) A low ball that bounces more than once before reaching the batsman.


show a little ginger

show a little ginger (third-person singular simple present shows a little ginger, present participle showing a little ginger, simple past showed a little ginger, past participle showed a little ginger or shown a little ginger)

shows a little ginger (present singular third-person)
showing a little ginger (participle present)
showed a little ginger (past)
showed a little ginger (participle past)
shown a little ginger (participle past)

(baseball, slang, 1800s) To play harder or smarter.


baseman

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(baseball, softball) A player positioned at or near a base: first baseman, second baseman or third baseman.


banjo hit

(baseball) A weakly hit fly ball which goes just over the infielders.


blooper

Again the blooper wafted up to the plate. Ted waited and waited and then let loose. The ball rose in a high trajectory and sailed deep into the bullpen for a homer. The fans roared. The slugger had killed the blooper.

1949, Jimmy Powers, Baseball Personalities: The Most Colorful Figures of All Time, New York, N.Y.: R. Field, →OCLC, page 254:

The blooper, delivered with a shot-put motion, floated in an arc that reached twenty-five feet, then suddenly dropped across home plate in the strike zone.

2003, Richard F. Peterson, The Pirates Reader, Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 139:

(baseball, slang) A fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders.


plug the runner

plug the runner (third-person singular simple present plugs the runner, present participle plugging the runner, simple past and past participle plugged the runner)

plugs the runner (present singular third-person)
plugging the runner (participle present)
plugged the runner (participle past)
plugged the runner (past)

(baseball, slang, 1800s) Synonym of soak the runner


soak the runner

soak the runner (third-person singular simple present soaks the runner, present participle soaking the runner, simple past and past participle soaked the runner)

soaks the runner (present singular third-person)
soaking the runner (participle present)
soaked the runner (participle past)
soaked the runner (past)

(baseball, slang, 1800s) To throw the ball at the runner in order to "tag" him out (illegal after 1845).


five-by-five

five-by-fives (plural)
five by five (alternative)

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(basketball) A performance in which a player accumulates five points in each of five statistical categories (points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks) in a single game.


VAR

en-noun

VAR (countable and uncountable, plural VARs)

[Harry] Kane was the victim in incidents plucked straight from the world of wrestling in each half, and on neither occasion did any of the officials – on the pitch or in the VAR booth – see fit to intervene in what were obvious penalties.

2018 June 18, Phil McNulty, “Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2019-04-21:

video assistant referee
video assistant referee#English

(soccer) Initialism of video assistant referee.


rearguard

rearguards (plural)
rear guard (alternative)
rear-guard (alternative)

/ˈɹɪəɹˌɡɑɹd/

From rear + guard. Attested in The Song of Roland circa 1150 (rereguarde). Doublet of retrogarde.

Mancini's side only showed enough ambition when it was too late and by then battle lines were drawn as James Collins and former City captain Richard Dunne fought a magnificent rearguard action at the heart of Villa's defence.

2011 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:

(soccer) The defence, collectively the defenders.


submariner

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/sʌbˈmæɹɪnə/

/sʌbˈmæɹɪnɚ/

Jones was a submariner and could often confuse a batter with his unorthodox delivery.

(US, baseball) A pitcher that throws with an underhand motion.


fisticuffs

In his college days of athletic exercises, Mr. Crisparkle had known professors of the Noble Art of fisticuffs, […]

1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, “Chapter XVII”, in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:

(plural only, sports, dated) Bare-knuckled boxing, a form of boxing done without boxing gloves or similar padding.


back into

en-verb

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

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

The 2006 St. Louis Cardinals backed into the playoffs.

(sports, idiomatic) To advance to the post-season as a result of another team's loss, especially where one's own team has also lost.

I didn't have any other options, I was backed into it.

(sports, idiomatic) To be forced into a situation by circumstances.


hardwood

en-noun

hardwood (countable and uncountable, plural hardwoods)

(sports, slang) The sport of basketball, in particular, an indoor basketball court; so named because the floor of an indoor basketball court is normally made of hardwood.


carom

carom (countable and uncountable, plural caroms)

Probably derived from French carambole (the red ball in billiards).

(countable, cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.

carambola

shot in which the cue ball strikes two balls


on the line

The ball was on the line but the umpire ruled it out.

(sports) On one of the lines marked on a playing field or court; (by extension) within bounds.

viivalla

sports:on a line marked on field or court


line up

en-verb

line up (third-person singular simple present lines up, present participle lining up, simple past and past participle lined up)

lines up (present singular third-person)
lining up (participle present)
lined up (participle past)
lined up (past)

The Nigerian forward lined up on the left of a front three with Keane in the middle and Frederic Piquionne on the right, and it was from Keane's lay-off that the former Portsmouth striker curled a shot straight at Ben Foster on 20 minutes.

2011 February 6, Alistair Magowan, “West Ham 0 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC:

(intransitive, sports) To start a game in a certain position on the playing field.

alinear

sports: to start a game in a certain position


lineup

The manager fielded his strongest lineup for the game against United.

Elton Brand in 1998 missed 15 games because of an injury in the middle of the year but returned to the lineup late in the season, so he is listed as a starter here. The aim here is to list the lineup that was in use near the end of each season […]

2006, John Roth, Ned Hinshaw, The Encyclopedia of Duke Basketball, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 369:

Before any game, a team is usually quite interested in its opponent's lineup.

2007, Larry Stockstill, He Teaches My Hands to War, page 133:

Rossi's five starts during the 2015 Formula One season were more like a tryout for the Manor Marussia team, in which he replaced Roberto Merhi for a few races in order to help the team decide what its driver lineup would be the next year.

2022, Elizabeth Blackstock, Alanis King, Racing with Rich Energy, page 75:

(sports) Collectively, the members of a team.

formació

sports: collectively, the members of a team

More than any other batter in the lineup, he can keep the inning going with a a base hit, and over a season he'll have as many at-bats as teh lead-off man and thus hit hard and often for his team.

1993, Jerry Kindall, Baseball: Play the Winning Way, page 248:

For example, as before, the leadoff hitter for the visiting team in the top of the first inning fails to come to bat and the #2 batter in the lineup subsequently becomes the initial batter in the inning.

2015, Andres Wirkmaa, The Complete Baseball Scorekeeping Handbook, page 70:

That meant Howell moved from a weak-hitting lineup to a great-hitting lineup, and players generally said they hit better if they had better hitters around them.

2022, Paul Aron ·, The Lineup: Ten Books That Changed Baseball, page 96:


first blood

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(sports) The first score in a competition.


yard sale

yard sales (plural)
yardsale (alternative)

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Pro athletes are expected to be Very Online. Some polish their profiles to a high shine; Courtney rides her own line. There are the obligatory golden-hour shots, but her Insta also has quirky strength-training videos and footage of total yard sales—like her endoing on a training ride this spring.

2019 December 9, “The 2019 Outsiders of the Year”, in Outside:

No yard sales on my watch!

2021 February 16, Charlie Berens and DudeDad, The 5 People on the Ski Slopes:

(sports) The state of a skier, snowboarder, skateboarder, cyclist, etc. and their equipment after a severe crash, laid out across the ground like items in a yard sale.

(sports, by extension) A notable fall during a sports activity, such as trail running.


biff

biff (third-person singular simple present biffs, present participle biffing, simple past and past participle biffed)

biffs (present singular third-person)
biffing (participle present)
biffed (participle past)
biffed (past)

(informal, sports) To wipe out; to faceplant; to fall.


cadence

en-noun

cadence (countable and uncountable, plural cadences)

Borrowed from Middle French cadence, from Old Italian cadenza (“conclusion of a phrase of music”), from Latin *cadentia (literally “a falling”), form of cadēns, the present participle of cadō (“I fall, I cease”). The Latin verb is inherited, via Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱad-e- (“to fall”, thematic present). Doublet of cadenza and chance.

der

The cadence in a galliard step refers to the final leap in a cinquepace sequence.

(dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.

závěr

(music) chord progression concluding a section or piece

(fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.

rytmi

(fencing) series of actions’ rhythm and sequence

(cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.

rytme

(cycling) number of revolutions per minute

(horseracing) The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground


sharpshooter

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sharp + shooter, a calque of German Scharfschütze.

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling) A submission hold characterized by one wrestler twisting the other's legs upwards while sitting on their back.


weight training

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(weightlifting) A form of physical exercise using weights to increase the strength and size of muscles by using exercises specific for each muscle group.


weight-train

en-verb

weight-train (third-person singular simple present weight-trains, present participle weight-training, simple past and past participle weight-trained)

weight-trains (present singular third-person)
weight-training (participle present)
weight-trained (participle past)
weight-trained (past)

(intransitive, weightlifting) To take part in weight training


creeper

From Middle English crepere, from Old English crēopere, equivalent to creep + -er. Slang usage derived from phrase give the creeps or creep out (distinct from merely one who creeps).

May joined Hutton and proceeded to play masterly cricket in which the straight-drive predominated. There was always the possibility that he might be trapped by a creeper, but May watched the ball intently.

2009, Steven Lynch, Wisden on the Ashes, page 292:

(cricket) A ball that travels low, near ground level.


DW

(dance) Initialism of diagonally to the wall.


cascade

From French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”), from Vulgar Latin *cāsicāre, derived from Latin cadere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d-.

(juggling) A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.


sortie

PIE word
 *upó
The noun is borrowed from French sortie (“act of exiting; exit, way out; (military) sally, sortie”), the feminine past participle of sortir (“to exit, go out”), from Old French sortir, from Latin sortīrī, the present active infinitive of sortior (“to cast or draw lots; to choose, select; to distribute, divide; to obtain, receive; to share”), from sors (“something used to determine chances, a lot; casting or drawing of lots; decision by lot; a share”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, tie together; a thread”)), possibly influenced by surrēctus (“arisen, having been caused to arise; gotten up, having been gotten up”), the perfect passive participle of surgō (“to arise, get up, rise”), from subrigō (“to lift up; to straighten”), from sub- (prefix meaning ‘beneath, under’) + regō (“to direct, guide, steer; to govern, rule; to manage, oversee”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to right oneself, straighten; just; right”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.

scramble

emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft

Kai Johansen made a sortie down the right and, running out of ideas, tried a shot from more than 20 yards.

1998, David Potter, Tom Campbell, Jock Stein: The Celtic Years, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN:

(by extension)
(figuratively)
(sports) An attacking move.


derby

desc

→ Arabic: دَرْبِي (darbī), الدَّرْبِي (ad-darbī)

→ Catalan: derbi

→ Cebuano: derbi

→ Chinese:

Cantonese: 打吡 (daa2 bei2), 打比 (daa2 bei2)

Mandarin: 德比 (débǐ)

→ Czech: derby

→ Dutch: derby

→ French: derby

→ German: Derby

→ Hebrew: דֶּרְבִּי (dérbi)

→ Hungarian: derbi

→ Indonesian: derbi

→ Italian: derby

→ Japanese: ダービー (dābī)

→ Lao: ເດີຣບີ (dœ̄n bī)

→ Lao: ເດີຣບີ (dœ̄n bī)

→ Macedonian: де́рби (dérbi)

→ Persian: دربی (derbi)

→ Polish: derby

→ Portuguese: dérbi

→ Romanian: derby

→ Russian: де́рби (dérbi)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: де̏рби

Latin script: dȅrbi

→ Spanish: derbi

→ Swedish: derby

→ Thai: ดาร์บี้ (daa-bîi)

→ Turkish: derbi

→ Ukrainian: де́рбі (dérbi)

From Epsom Derby horse race, named after Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby. Ultimately from Derby.

named-after

(sports) A sports match between rival teams.

Defeat sees Forest remain a point outside the top six with a derby against Leicester up next.

2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport:

The left-back had been a selection concern because of an injury niggle but his first goal since last March swung this derby decisively in United’s favour, extending their club record unbeaten run away from home in the Premier League to 22 games and torpedoing City’s sequence of 21 straight wins in all competitions.

2021 March 7, David Hytner, “Manchester United catch City cold as Fernandes and Shaw end winning run”, in The Guardian:


meatball

→ Japanese: ミートボール

→ Korean: 미트볼 (miteubol)

And then. A 98.4 fastball on the inside half of the plate, ring him up, Strike 3, game over. It wasn’t a meatball like Terrence Long watched to finish 2003 ALDS Game 5, but it felt the same.

2020, Alex Hall, “Oakland A’s faced all their nightmares in Game 3 and wrote a new ending”, in Athletics Nation:

(baseball) An easy pitch to hit, especially thrown right down the middle of the plate.


silly mid on

en-noun

silly mid on (countable and uncountable, plural silly mid ons)

(cricket) a fielding position, on the leg side, forward of the batsman's wicket, and very near the batsman; a fielder in this position


silly mid off

(cricket) a fielding position, on the off side, forward of the batsman's wicket, and very near the batsman; a fielder in this position


silly point

silly point (countable and uncountable, plural silly points)

(cricket) A fielding position, on the off side, square of the batsman's wicket, and very near the batsman; a fielder in this position.


clean and jerk

clean and jerks (plural)
clean-and-jerk (alternative)

(weightlifting) The act of lifting the barbell from the floor to a resting position across the front of the shoulders (the clean phase), pausing, and thrusting the barbell over the head to a stationary position in one movement (the jerk phase). The normal technique for both parts of this act involves propelling the barbell upwards, quickly lowering the torso, and then straightening the legs.


clean and jerk

(weightlifting) To lift and manipulate a weight in this fashion.


letterbox

letterboxes (plural)
letter box (alternative)

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His strength was running out fast: one more good letterbox was all that he could conceive himself able to make. He made it, hacking away with slow, painful strokes, his axe-handle slippery with his sweat.

1954, Daniel Talbot, A Treasury of Mountaineering Stories, page 239:

(mountaineering) A rectangular hole or slot.


backstop

backstops (plural)
back-stop (alternative)

(baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.

Bench may be the greatest catcher subjectively, but he's not statistically. Statwise, Yogi Berra is the all-time backstop, regardless of which measure you prefer. Berra's Total-Z is one-third of a standard deviation higher than Bench's, and his Core-Z average is a point better.

2002, James F. Vail, Outrageous Fortune: What's Wrong with Hall of Fame Voting and How to Make It Statistically Sound, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 143:

(baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.


schtick

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(sports, games) The stick used to play schlockey.


dunking

(basketball) Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above.


SB

SB (countable and uncountable, plural SBs)

(sports) Initialism of season best. (this season's personal best).

(baseball) Abbreviation of stolen base.; The statistic reporting the number of stolen bases.


takedown

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(martial arts) A taking down: an act of bringing one's opponent to the ground by grabbing one or both legs and applying a rearward bending moment.


plowing

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(snowboarding): riding with neither foot leading, with the stick perpendicular to the fall line; not goofy nor regular.


fall line

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(snowboarding, skiing) The imaginary line downhill that something falling downhill would naturally follow.


ollie

From Ollie. Named after American skateboarder Alan Gelfand (1963–), via the Floridian skateboarder's nickname.

named-after

In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]

2007, Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Böttger, Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism, page 124:

(skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding) An aerial maneuver in which one catches air by leaping off the ground with the skateboard and into the air.


toe edge

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(snowboarding) The sharp edge on the long side of a snowboard closest to one's toes, regardless of which way one if facing (up-mountain or down-mountain) or riding (goofy or regular).


half-pipe

half-pipes (plural)
halfpipe (alternative)
half pipe (alternative)

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But the kid who washed windows for $2 an hour when he was 8 so he could buy his first snowboard served notice he could be a contender at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics with a silver medal yesterday in men's halfpipe.

2009 January 24, Randy Starkman, “Silver medal eases pain for Batchelor at world championships”, in Toronto Star:

(skateboarding, snowboarding, skiing, BMX, rollerskating, kickscootering, etc.) A structure used to perform tricks, approximately semicircular in cross-section, resembling the bottom half of a cylinder lying down.


carving

calving (non-rhotic, Received Pronunciation, trap–bath split)

(snowboarding) Executing turns without pivoting.


right back

(soccer) a defender who normally plays on the right side of the field


alphabet soup

en-noun

alphabet soup (countable and uncountable, plural alphabet soups)

(motor racing, slang) The series of preliminary races (denoted by letters) through which drivers must advance to the main event.


SSI

Scuba Schools International
w:Scuba Schools International

(underwater diving) Initialism of Scuba Schools International.


wheels

Martin: Just for legs, Tom Platz in his heyday has never been approached.
OB205: I totally agree with this, even to this day no one can beat those WHEELS!

1999 March 22, “OB205”, “Re: Freakiest Bodybuilder?”, in misc.fitness.weights (Usenet):

But Mary J. goes all-out during big leg day, and look at her wheels—toned but very feminine.

2004 December 28, Mark Jenkins, Jeff O’Connell, The Jump Off: 60 Days to a Hip-Hop Hard Body, HarperCollins, page 76:

...try this big wheels program to pack on muscle to your quads and hams.

2006 April 30, Jim Stoppani, Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength, Human Kinetics Publishers, page 131:

(bodybuilding, slang) Well-developed thigh muscles.


LDS

(underwater diving) Initialism of local dive shop.


fairway

(golf) The area between the tee and the green, where the grass is cut short.

carrer

(golf) the area between the tee and the green


dead bird

Jones got on board with a dead bird to start the innning.

(baseball, slang) A ball which falls over the infielders’ heads for a hit, as if it were a bird shot by a hunter.


hard count

Jones is good at drawing a defense offside with his hard count.

(American football) The situation where the quarterback attempts to draw the defense offside through a deceptive snap count sequence, sometimes accompanied by subtle body movements which simulate the initiation of the play.


linebacker

The linebacker corralled the runner who had slipped through the hole.

(American football) The defensive players who are in position behind the defensive linemen and in front of the safeties and cornerbacks and whose principal responsibilities are to tackle runners and to defend against shorter passes.


bandit

bandit (plural bandits or (archaic) banditti)

bandits (plural)
banditti (archaic plural)

Borrowed from Italian bandito (“outlawed”), a derivative of Italian bandire (“to ban”), from Late Latin bandīre, an alteration (due to Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bandwjan, “to signal”)) of Late Latin bannīre (“to ban”), from Frankish *bannan (“to ban”). Doublet of bandito.

(sports, slang) A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.


schooling

schooling (countable and uncountable, plural schoolings)

(dressage) The training of a horse at dressage.


NASCAR

2008 February 16, Peter Sagal (host), Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio
Chuck Liddell, also known as Ice Man, is one of the stars of the sport that has been called the NASCAR of the twenty-first century, mixed martial arts.

Unfortunately for Brown, the reaction was negative. Despite being a rising NASCAR star, he said it became “extremely difficult” to attract sponsors because major corporations saw his unintentional association with the LGB meme to be divisive.

2022 January 5, “NASCAR rejects ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sponsorship”, in RT:

(sports) Acronym of National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, a U.S. auto racing organization founded in 1948.


steals

He has 25 steals this year.

(baseball, informal) The number of stolen bases by a baserunner.


sticks

It was a maiden race over the "sticks," and the trainer's instructions were to slip off and make the running throughout.

1902, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, volume 40, page 469:

Do they prefer flat or 'over the sticks' (jump races)? Does the group know what the races with jumps are called?

2009, Anni Bowden, Nancy Lewthwaite, The Activity Year Book, page 124:

(horse racing) Hurdles or other obstacles to be jumped over.


play ball

en-verb

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

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

(baseball, softball) An expression used at the beginning of a game of baseball or softball.

jugueu

if there's grass on the field, play ball

if there's grass on the pitch, play ball


net minder

net minders (plural)
net-minder (alternative)
netminder (alternative)

(ice hockey) goalkeeper, player whose role it is to defend the goal


sudden death

en-noun

sudden death (countable and uncountable, plural sudden deaths)

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(sports, games) A period or mode of play in which the next player or team to score wins instantly; often in an extra period of time following a tie at the end of the regular period of play.


coon

en-verb

coon (third-person singular simple present coons, present participle cooning, simple past and past participle cooned)

coons (present singular third-person)
cooning (participle present)
cooned (participle past)
cooned (past)

(climbing) To traverse by crawling, as a ledge.


welter-weight

Originally “heavyweight horseman” (1832), from welter (“heavyweight horseman”) + weight. Boxing sense 1896.

compound

(boxing) between lightweight and middleweight


welter-weight

welter-weights (plural)
welterweight (alternative)

(boxing) a boxer weighing more than a lightweight boxer and less than a middleweight boxer; someone boxing in the welterweight class

(horse racing) A weight of 28 pounds (or 40 pounds: a heavy welterweight), sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races.


mantel

A variant of mantle (“cloak, robe”) now distinguished in sense.

(climbing) A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body.


mantel

en-verb

mantel (third-person singular simple present mantels, present participle mantelling or (US) manteling, simple past and past participle mantelled or (US) manteled)

mantels (present singular third-person)
mantelling (participle present)
manteling (US participle present)
mantelled (participle past)
mantelled (past)
manteled (US participle past)
manteled (US past)

(climbing) To surmount a ledge by pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body.


uke

From Japanese 受け (uke), derived from the verb 受ける (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).

(judo, martial arts) The training partner against whom tori performs a move.


sophomore

From earlier sophumer, from the obsolete sophom, sophum (“sophism or dialectical exercise”), from Ancient Greek σόφισμα (sóphisma). Likely influenced by Ancient Greek σοφός (sophós, “wise”) + μωρός (mōrós, “fool”). Compare oxymoron (literally “sharp-dull”), a similar contradiction.

The filly had looked promising as a sophomore, but concerns over her health had prompted the owner to pull her from the season’s early races.

(US, horse-racing) A three-year-old horse.


all-American

/ˌɔːl əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/

/ˌɔl əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/

aitoamerikkalainen

comprising things wholly from the United States of America; made in the United States

He was an all-American basketball player last year.

After having conducted a country-wide poll of experts, Vanity Fair has chosen a truly All-American Collegiate Basketball Team. The nine picked is the result of the combined opinions of sporting editors, college coaches, graduate managers and old players from Cambridge, to Palo Alto and from Minneapolis to Atlanta.

1915 July, “Vanity Fair’s All-American College Basketball Team”, in Frank Crowninshield, editor, Vanity Fair, volume 4, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Vanity Fair Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 30:

I would rather a boy were a fine moral character, 5 feet 3 inches tall and unable to run a 100 yards in 20 seconds, than to see him 6 feet tall, weighing 180 pounds, an all-American full-back with a set of morals that disgraces his family and community.

1922 March 30, W[illiam] J[ames] Monilaw, “Papers Read at the Annual Convention of the Middle West Society of Physical Education, March 30, 31, April 1, 1922: President’s Address”, in James Huff McCurdy, editor, American Physical Education Review, volume XXVIII, number 2 (number 184 overall), Springfield, Mass.: American Physical Education Association, published February 1923, →OCLC, page 47, column 2:

In 1888 [Walter] Camp selected the first All-American team, an exercise that has continued into the twenty-first century. Each member of the team is chosen because he is the best of all players nationwide at playing his particular position.

2012, Larzer Ziff, “America as Middle Class: Adolescence, Frank Merriwell, Penrod”, in All-American Boy (Discovering America; 4), Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 95:

(US, chiefly sports) Of a person or a team, or some other thing: regarded as the best in the United States.


all-American

/ˌɔːl əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/

/ˌɔl əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/

[Bennie] Oosterbaan won letters in football, basketball, and baseball, and was selected as an All-American end for three successive years.

1930, “Athletics”, in George E. Leonard, editor, Michiganensian of 1930, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Published by the Senior Class of the University of Michigan, →OCLC, page 191:

Among the players he [Ward Lambert] coached were the legendary John Wooden, a three-time All-American; three-time All-American Charles "Stretch" Murphy; and All-Americans Don White, Ray "Candy" Miller, George Spradling, Norm Cotton, Emmett Lowery, Robert Kessler, Jewell Young, and Paul Hoffman.

2002, “Standing Tall”, in Purdue Reamer Club, compiler, A University of Tradition: The Spirit of Purdue, West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, →ISBN, page 92:

[T]he All-American [American football player] in [Walter] Camp's sense is not typical but superior, the best in America at performing the specific role he has been assigned. An All-American is one-eleventh of a whole.

We lost but that was probably the game that meant the most to me. It might have made me an All-American. I was named All-American that year and the actress Kim Novak was our host for the All-American luncheon and dinners. God, she was so gorgeous.

2014, Paul Hornung, Chuck Carlson, “Under the Golden Dome”, in The Paul Hornung Scrapbook, Chicago, Ill.: Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 43:

In lacrosse, the legacy of greatness belongs to No. 22. And unlike football's 44, lacrosse's 22 is still in circulation and still churning out All-Americans.

2014, Scott Pitoniak, “The Legend of 22”, in 100 Things Syracuse Fans should Know & Do before They Die, Chicago, Ill.: Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 243:

(US, chiefly sports) A person or a team, or some other thing, regarded as the best in the United States.


hang up one's boots

hang up one's boots (third-person singular simple present hangs up one's boots, present participle hanging up one's boots, simple past and past participle hung up one's boots)

hangs up one's boots (present singular third-person)
hanging up one's boots (participle present)
hung up one's boots (participle past)
hung up one's boots (past)

(informal, sports) To stop playing a field sport.


marbles

Some corners are littered with marbles, off the racing line.

2014, Amen Zwa, Going Nowhere Fast In Assetto Corsa (2015-05-01), →ISBN, page 395:

(motor racing) Bits of rolled-up rubber shed by the tires of race cars that accumulate at the edges of the track, especially at the corners.


pick up

pick up (third-person singular simple present picks up, present participle picking up, simple past and past participle picked up)

picks up (present singular third-person)
picking up (participle present)
picked up (participle past)
picked up (past)

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And soon after, no-one picked up Shotton who was free to power a 12-yard header over from another Pennant corner, before Pennant sent a free kick straight at Cardiff keeper Tom Heaton.

2011 January 18, David Dulin, “Cardiff 0-2 Stoke”, in BBC:

(soccer) To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.

(sports) To behave in a manner that results in a foul.


dipper

desc

→ Kashubian: dyper (Canada, United States)

From Middle English dippere; equivalent to dip + -er.

(cricket) A delivery bowled that curves into or away from the batter before pitching.


bring up

en-verb

bring up (third-person singular simple present brings up, present participle bringing up, simple past and past participle brought up)

brings up (present singular third-person)
bringing up (participle present)
brought up (participle past)
brought up (past)

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From Middle English bring up, dissimilated from Middle English upbringen (“to bring up, raise”). Doublet of upbring.

der

Warner smacked a four over midwicket to bring up his century.

(cricket) To reach a particular score, especially a milestone.


HT

en-noun

HT (countable and uncountable, plural HTs)


BB

BB (countable and uncountable, plural BBs)

BBs (plural)
B.B. (alternative)
B. B. (alternative)
bb (alternative)

(baseball) A walk; the statistic reporting the number of "bases on balls".

(gymnastics) Abbreviation of balance beam.


Emirates

(soccer, with the) Emirates Stadium, a football stadium in London that is the home ground of Arsenal F.C.


SFC

Southampton Football Club
w:Southampton F.C.

(soccer) Initialism of Southampton Football Club.

Sunderland Football Club
w:Sunderland F.C.

(soccer) Initialism of Sunderland Football Club.

(soccer) Initialism of Sydney Football Club.


gymkhana

→ Catalan: gimcana

→ Italian: gincana

→ Portuguese: gincana

→ Spanish: yincana

/d͡ʒɪmˈkɑnə/

From Hindustani گیند خانہ (gendxānā) / गेंदख़ाना (gendxānā, “racquet court”), from گیند / गेंद (gend, “ball”) + خانہ / ख़ाना (xānā, “court”). Influenced by gymnastics and gymnasium.

In the afternoon the British held athletic sports, an impromptu military tournament, and a gymkhana, all of which caused much merriment and diversion, and the Boers profited by the cessation of the shell fire to shovel away at their trenches.

1900, Winston Churchill, chapter 13, in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria:

(equestrianism) A competition where riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes.


grab some pine

en-verb

grab some pine (third-person singular simple present grabs some pine, present participle grabbing some pine, simple past and past participle grabbed some pine)

grabs some pine (present singular third-person)
grabbing some pine (participle present)
grabbed some pine (participle past)
grabbed some pine (past)

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Strike three! Grab some pine, meat! The saying references the pine benches in the dugout. It has absolutely nothing to do with pine tar used for grip on bats

(sports) Go sit on the bench. Typically used as a taunt after a strikeout. Popularized by Giants sportscaster Mike Krukow.


OBP

en-noun

OBP (countable and uncountable, plural OBPs)

on-base percentage
on-base percentage#English

(baseball) Initialism of on-base percentage.


official at-bat

official at-bat (plural official at-bats)

A player's batting average is his hits divided by his official at-bats.

(baseball) A completed batting opportunity that did not result in a base on balls, hit-by-pitch, sacrifice fly, sacrifice bunt, or interference or obstruction.


(baseball) Double, a baseball statistic indicating a runner has safely advanced to second base.


(baseball) triple, a baseball statistic indicating a runner has safely advanced to third base


1B (countable and uncountable, plural 1Bs)

(baseball) The baseball statistic of one-base hits or singles.


walk-off

walkoff (alternative)
walk off (alternative)

Scott Podsednik hit the twelfth walk-off home run in World Series history on October 23rd, 2005.

(baseball, of a hit) That drives in a run that ends a game.


walk-off

walk-offs (plural)
walkoff (alternative)
walk off (alternative)

It was the Brewers' first walk-off walk since May 4, 2005, when Damien Miller drew a walk to win the game, 4-3, at home over the Cubs.

2010 May 27, “Brewers overcome errors in walk-off win”, in MLB.com:

(baseball) Any event or action in the bottom of the last inning of a game that scores a run and thereby ends the game with a victory to the team at bat.


paddock

The noun is almost certainly a variant of dialectal British parrock (“enclosure; park; croft, small field, paddock”), from Middle English parrok, parrock (“enclosed pasture, paddock; coop; feeding stall; cabin, hut”) [and other forms], from Old English pearroc, pearruc (“fence used to enclose a space; area enclosed by such a fence, enclosure”), from Proto-West Germanic *parruk (“enclosure; pen for animals”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“fence; enclosure”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *barō (“bar, beam; barrier”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce; to strike”). Doublet of park.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* Danish park (“pond”)
* Dutch perk (“flowerbed; garden; pen”)
* German Pferch (“sheepfold, sheep-pen”)

cog

We left the carriage, bought programmes, and walked across the infield and then across the smooth thick turf of the course to the paddock. […] The paddock was fairly well filled with people and they were walking the horses around in a ring under the trees behind the grand stand.

1929 May–October, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 20, in A Farewell to Arms, 1st British edition, London: Jonathan Cape […], published 1929, →OCLC, book II, page 138:

You remind me of a two-year-old, Dinny—one of those whipcordy chestnuts that kick up their heels in the paddock, get left at the post, and come in first after all.

1931 November, John Galsworthy, chapter XXIV, in Maid in Waiting, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: The Ryerson Press, published 1931, →OCLC, page 211:

(horse racing) An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.

haka

(motor racing) An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.

varikko

(sports, slang) A field on which a game is played; a playing field.


LCS

League Championship Series
w:League Championship Series

(US, baseball) Initialism of League Championship Series for each of the two leagues of Major League Baseball.


NLCS

National League Championship Series
w:National League Championship Series

(baseball) Initialism of National League Championship Series. It is a best of seven game series played to determine the champion of the National League and win the NL pennant.


ALCS

(baseball) The American League Championship Series, a best of seven game series played to determine the champion of the American League.


ALDS

American League Division Series
w:American League Division Series

(baseball) Initialism of American League Division Series., a pair of best of five game series played annually by Major League Baseball teams to determine the opponents in the American League Championship Series (ALCS).


NLDS

National League Division Series
w:National League Division Series

(baseball) Initialism of National League Division Series., a pair of best of five game series played annually by Major League Baseball teams to determine the opponents in the National League Championship Series (NLCS).


reliever

The first reliever got the last two outs of the sixth.


Southsider

I'm no baby bear fan; I'm a Southsider.

(baseball) A player or fan of the Chicago White Sox baseball team, which plays its home games on Chicago's south side.

(soccer) A fan of the Vancouver Whitecaps football team


unmarked

Bale worked Bozovic again as he was left unmarked in the Montenegro area but could not get enough power on his header from a looping cross.

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

(sports) Not marked, not closely followed by a defensive player.


coffee grinder

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(dance, gymnastics) A circular sweep of the leg around the body while supporting oneself on one's hands.


graveyard

/ˈɡɹeɪvˌjɑɹd/

From grave + yard. Compare West Frisian begraafplak (“graveyard”), Dutch begraafplaats (“graveyard”), Norwegian gravplass (“graveyard”).

kirkegård

final storage place for collections of things no longer used

(figuratively, by extension) A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.

(sports) A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.


snake eyes

From the resemblance of the two single pips to the eyes of a snake.


endomorph

/ˈɛndəʊmɔːf/

/ˈɛndəmɔːɹf/

(physical type): Derived from endoderm + -morph from William Herbert Sheldon. Equivalent to endo- + -morph.

(bodybuilding) A person having a theoretical body type with slow metabolism in which weight is gained easily, but fat levels are hard to reduce. Endomorphic bodybuilders tend to be the most massive.


ectomorph

/ˈɛktəʊmɔːf/

/ˈɛktəmɔːɹf/

Derived from ectoderm + -morph from William Herbert Sheldon. Equivalent to ecto- + -morph.

(bodybuilding): Theoretical body type in which a person has a high metabolism. Such a person can easily maintain a low fat physique, but does not add muscle or body weight easily.


dugout

Spurs, who were without boss Harry Redknapp after his heart surgery, failed to create a clear-cut chance. Redknapp is expected to be back in the dugout when Spurs play Fulham at Craven Cottage on Sunday but it was left to his assistant Kevin Bond to take a young team to Russia looking for the win that would put them through to the last 32.

2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:

(baseball, soccer, cricket) A sunken shelter at the side of a sports field where non-playing team members and staff sit during a game.

Spielerbank

where non-playing teammembers and staff sit during a game


Oriole

He became an Oriole as the result of a pre-season trade.

(baseball) A player on the team Baltimore Orioles.


Cardinals

(baseball) The team St. Louis Cardinals.

(American football) The team Arizona Cardinals.


Bums

The folks were quite happy about Sunday's thrilling reprieve in Philadelphia and happily confident that "d' Bums'll moider dem Jints"

1951 October 2, “VOICE OF FLATBUSH GOES UP AND DOWN; Loud Shouts of Morning Fall to …”, in New York Times:

To his credit, Allen could not imagine the Jints or Bums unabiding on New York's behalf. "New York is fully capable of supporting three clubs."

2007, Curt Smith, The Voice: Mel Allen's Untold Story, page 111:

The faithful cheered loudly for their beloved Bums; they jeered loudly at the others teams, especially if they were the hated "Jints" from the Polo Grounds.

2000, G. Richard McKelvey, The MacPhails: Baseball's First Family of the Front Office, page 38:

The Polo Grounds, which had been the site of many fierce battles between the "Jints" and the "Bums," was not friendly to the home team.

2001, G. Richard McKelvey, The Bounce: Baseball Teams' Great Falls and Comebacks, page 100:

(baseball) Nickname of the Brooklyn Dodgers, later the Los Angeles Dodgers.


jockstrap

jockstraps (plural)
jock strap (alternative)

From jock in the obsolete sense of "male genitals" and strap; from the earlier forms bike jockey strap and jockey strap.

With their jock-straps pinching, they slouch to attention
While queueing for sarnies at the office canteen.

1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull:

There are many accounts of men, back in the 1970s, work out in nothing but a jockstrap.

2010, Erick Alvarez, Muscle Boys: Gay Gym Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 105:

(sports) An athletic supporter worn by men and boys to support the genitals during strenuous exercise.


Jints

Eye dialect for popular New York City pronunciation of giants

1914 May 17, “The Old-Time Fan Refers To the Jints' Little Napoleon As a...”, in Atlanta Constitution:

1951 October 2, “VOICE OF FLATBUSH GOES UP AND DOWN; Loud Shouts of Morning Fall to...”, in New York Times:

He did about as well as could be expected with the Jints, though the halo he gained lastseason was knocked slightly askew in the process.

1952 September 4, “Sports of the Times; Wait Till Next Year”, in New York Times:

(baseball, informal) Nickname for the New York Giants, subsequently the San Francisco Giants.

On Sunday it would be even more drinking, plus the Times, and the pitiful "Jints" on TV.

2000, James Patterson, The Midnight Club, page 101:

(American football, informal) The New York Giants.

(US, sports) Nickname for many teams with name including Giants.


gapper

Bob's gapper cleared the bags.

(baseball) A ball hit through the regions between the outfielders.


seagulling

As long as he can stay away from the seagulling in the tight games.

2002 May 25, Greig Blanchett, “Re: So. To The ABs”, in rec.sport.rugby.union (Usenet):

Jack has to cut out the seagulling and get in and do the dirty work.

2009 December 28, Steve Hepburn, “Rugby: Oval ball gazing for 2011 World Cup”, in Otago Daily Times:

And while Williams cut down the seagulling, he still wasn't hitting the breakdown with any vigour.

2011 August 29, lord shineything [username], “Re: AB Players”, in rec.sport.rugby.union (Usenet):

(British, Australia, New Zealand, rugby slang) The practice, in Rugby Union, of forwards running in the back line rather than concentrating on their primary positional duties in open play (see rugby union positions).


Astro

Jones became an Astro as the result of a pre-season trade.

(baseball) A player for the Houston Astros.


Astros

The Astros lead the division through half the season.


FOM

(motor racing) Acronym of Formula One Management.


isu

(sumo) An individual seat in the loft-like balcony of a sumo arena.


go yard

en-verb

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

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

Question 162: To follow-up on the aforementioned Phillies slugger, in 1980 he set a career high and established a Major League record for home runs by a third baseman when he went yard 48 times.

2010, Major League Baseball IQ: The Ultimate Test of True Fandom:


fall classic

The White Sox swept the 2005 fall classic.


World Series

(US, baseball) The best-of-seven game series played annually in late October-early November to determine the year's championship of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, played between two teams, one each in the National League and the American League.


MLB

There was no repeat rainbow rebellion during last Saturday’s Pride Night at Tropicana Field after MLB introduced a policy this season forbidding teams from changing their uniforms to mark local themed events.

2023 June 12, Tom Dart, “US culture wars come to baseball as MLB celebrates Pride month”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Major League Baseball
w:Major League Baseball

(US, Canada, baseball) Initialism of Major League Baseball.


National League

(baseball) The older of the two professional baseball leagues within Major League Baseball.


American League

(baseball) The younger of the two professional baseball leagues within Major League Baseball.


League Championship Series

(baseball) The best-of-seven series of games to determine the winner of each of the National League and the American League.


earned run

(baseball) A run that was recorded without the benefit of an error.


lino

en-noun

lino (usually uncountable, plural linos)

Contraction of linesman + -o (“diminutive suffix”).

Lino flagged a bit late but was right

2014 October 4, MartTheTaxi, “Twitter status”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(UK, colloquial, informal, soccer) Abbreviation of linesman.


ISF

International Softball Federation
w:International Softball Federation

(softball) Initialism of International Softball Federation.


Nordic

en-adj

Nordic (comparative more Nordic, superlative most Nordic)

more Nordic (comparative)
most Nordic (superlative)
nordic (alternative)

From French nordique, from nord (“north”).

Coordinate term: alpine

cross-country skiing
cross-country skiing

(skiing) Of or relating to cross-country skiing or ski jumping.


NFI

(American football) Initialism of non-football injury; any injury sustained by a player outside of games or training.


RPC

Translingual: RPC

(sports) Abbreviation of Russian Paralympic Committee (an organization).


ICS

(motor racing) Initialism of Indy Car Series, the premier open-wheel racing series in the United States.


AAAA

(slang, baseball) A baseball player who is too good for Minor League Baseball, but not good enough for Major League Baseball.


sarabande

sarabandes (plural)
saraband (alternative)
sarabrand (alternative)
zarabanda (alternative)

Borrowed from French sarabande, from Spanish zarabanda.

(dance) A stately Baroque dance in slow triple time.


fuel cell

(energy) Synonym of fuel tank: A fuel storage tank.

(motor racing) A fuel tank with a flexible inner liner to reduce the risk of puncture.


ascender

(climbing) a mechanical device used for ascending on a rope; ascendeur.


riser

From Middle English ryser, risere, equivalent to rise + -er.


stint

From Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in āstintan (“to make dull, stint, assuage”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stuntijan, from Proto-Germanic *stuntijaną and Proto-Germanic *stintaną (“to make short”), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).

inh

(motor racing) A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.


FCS

w:NCAA Division I#Football Championship Subdivision

(American football) Initialism of Football Championship Subdivision.


left back

(soccer) A defender who normally plays on the left side of the field.


give away

en-verb

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

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

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Coordinate term: give up

England gave away six penalties in the first 15 minutes and were lucky to still have 15 men on the pitch, but Kvirikashvili missed two very makeable penalties in quick succession as Georgia were unable to take advantage of significant territorial advantage.

2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:


heya

(sumo) the so-called "stable" of rikishi who train under the instruction of a particular shisho; the place where this group lives and trains


pav

“It′s no good hanging around here. I vote we nip round to the back of the pav,” Jennings suggested. “We might be able to see Mr Findlater and wave to him through the window.”
They scurried round to the rear of the building where a row of windows overlooked a deserted part of the cricket ground.

1954, Anthony Buckeridge, According to Jennings, page 80:

Up goes the finger and the Dodo snaps to attention, rams the bat under his arm (subaltern with swagger stick) and retreats to the pav with a slowness intended as silent comment on a poor decision.

2000, Aidan Higgins, The Whole Hog, unnumbered page:

One of the most enjoyable drinking experiences in town can be had on a pleasant summer′s day on the balcony of the Pav, the cricket pavilion overlooking Trinity′s playing fields.

2008, Fionn Davenport, Dublin City Guide, Lonely Planet, page 166:

(cricket, informal) Clipping of pavilion.


pick and roll

He and [Dennis] Schröder developing pick-and-roll chemistry will certainly be an objective. [Markieff] Morris has a tendency to linger around the mid-range area after setting ball screens, but when he’s popping beyond the 3-point line, he can hurt defenses.

2019 February 25, Brett Dawson, Fred Katz, “How power forward Markieff Morris might fit in with the Thunder”, in The Athletic:

(basketball) An offensive play in which a player stops to block a defender for a teammate handling the ball and then slips behind the defender to accept a pass.


suplex

Perhaps related to the suplay of classical wrestling, if not further inspired by super; also see -ex. Another explanation could be from sub + plecto, (meaning essentially I turn, twist, combine, or "braid" from under) which could ultimately reduce into English as suplex due to it being a novel innovation.

(professional wrestling) A wrestling move in which the wrestler picks up their opponent off the ground (or mat) and then, using a large portion of their own body weight, drives the opponent down on the mat by throwing them over their center of gravity, usually arching their back.


suplex

suplex (third-person singular simple present suplexes, present participle suplexing, simple past and past participle suplexed)

suplexes (present singular third-person)
suplexing (participle present)
suplexed (participle past)
suplexed (past)

(transitive, professional wrestling) To subject to this manoeuvre.


decathlete

Simply to see what would happen, Paul Terek, a United States decathlete, wore a baseball cap bearing his name in Japanese when he landed at the Osaka airport a few weeks ago. Some children there took the bait.

2007 February 9, Juliet Macur, “Decathletes Struggle for Any Recognition”, in The New York Times:

“Heptathlon is very geared and favorable to those who are quick,” said Gray’s coach, Andy Eggerth, who trains both heptathletes and decathletes. “A lot of world-class heptathletes are relatively bad at javelin and shot-put.”

2021 June 7, Shauna Farnell, “An Olympic Hurdle: Why Is the Decathlon Only for Men?”, in The New York Times:

(athletics) An athlete who competes in the decathlon.


spotter

contrasted with the Übungsleiter m meaning “trainer”

Due to a spotter's lack of action in holding the weight when a lifter lost her balance, the lifter badly pulled some muscles.

1981 December 12, Melissa Wills, “Moving Metal”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 10:

(weightlifting, gymnastics, climbing) One who supervises a person performing an activity, in order to help them should they be unable to complete it.

(motor racing) A team member responsible for communication with the driver to keep them up-to-date about on-track events, such as other nearby cars.


aider

As I was switching my feet in my aiders, the hook popped.

(climbing) A mountaineer's stirrup or étrier.


tap up

tap up (third-person singular simple present taps up, present participle tapping up, simple past and past participle tapped up)

taps up (present singular third-person)
tapping up (participle present)
tapped up (participle past)
tapped up (past)

(transitive, British, sports) To make an approach to a player, under contract to another club, in order to attempt to negotiate a transfer.


basement

(sports, informal) Last place in a sports conference's standings.


backslide

(dance) A dance move in which the feet are alternately slid back and the heels lifted, giving the illusion of walking forwards while actually moving backwards.


bantam

Borrowed from Dutch Bantam (Banten province in Java).

(sports) A competitor in an age division between peewee and midget.


ramp

From French rampe, from Middle French rampe, deverbal of ramper, from Old French ramper (“to crawl, climb, scale up”), from Frankish *hrampōn (“to contract oneself, wrinkle, rumple, crumple, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to shrivel, shrink”). Cognate with German Rampf (“retraction, curvature, shrinkage, spasm”). Doublet of romp.
Akin also to Old English ġehrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple, rumple”), Old High German rimpfan (German rümpfen (“to wrinkle up”)). Compare Danish rimpe (“to fold" (archaic), "to baste”), Icelandic rimpa. More at rimple.

cog

(skating) A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.

ramp

skating: construction to do skating tricks


facemask

facemasks (plural)
face mask (alternative)

潛水面罩 /潜水面罩

covering used to protect the face used for diving

A covering used to protect or disguise the face.

(American football, Canadian football) The part of the helmet that directly covers the face, made of one or more plastic-coated metal bars.

(American football, Canadian football) The foul of grasping it during play.


face mask penalty

en-noun

face mask penalty (plural face mask penalties)

(American football) A penalty in American football where one player grabs the face mask of an opposing player. There are two versions of this penalty: incidental face mask penalty and the more serious personal foul face mask penalty.


diving

diving (countable and uncountable, plural divings)

(soccer, sports) The act of pretending to be tripped or brought to the ground by an opposition player in order to secure an undeserved penalty.


pintail

(surfing) A surfboard with a pointed back end.


all square

(sports, games, etc.) With all players or teams having the same score; tied, drawn.


strike rate

(baseball) The number of runs of a batter divided by the number of balls faced.

(cricket) The number of runs scored by a batsman per 100 balls faced; the number of balls bowled by a bowler divided by the number of wickets taken.


go over

en-verb

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

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

But in the closing stages Bishop spotted a gap to go over and Hook converted to set up a nervous finish for the Blues, who managed to hold on.

2010 December 31, “Magners League: Cardiff Blues 27-25 Osprey”, in BBC:


ripped

en-adj

ripped (comparative more ripped, superlative most ripped)

more ripped (comparative)
most ripped (superlative)

Near-synonyms: jacked, shredded

With the average male competitor weighing around 220, the total poundage of raw, ripped mass in the preliminary lineup is over 3,700 pounds.

1988, Steve Holman, “Christian Conquers Columbus”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 28-34:

That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut, ripped midsection.

2010, Bill Geiger, “6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks”, in Reps!, 17:106:

(bodybuilding) Having extremely low bodyfat content so that the shape of the underlying muscles become pronounced. Said especially of well-defined abdominal muscles or of men who have them.


shredded

shredded (comparative more shredded, superlative most shredded)

more shredded (comparative)
most shredded (superlative)

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Near-synonyms: jacked, ripped

(bodybuilding) Having very pronounced muscular definition.

факту́рный

having very pronounced muscular definition


defined

defined (comparative more defined, superlative most defined)

more defined (comparative)
most defined (superlative)

undefined

antonym(s) of “having a definition or value”

(bodybuilding) Having extreme muscle separation as a result of low body fat.


weightlifter

weightlifters (plural)
weight lifter (alternative)

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(weightlifting) A person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts.

重量挙げ選手

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