scaption

Shortened form of scapular plane elevation.

(exercise) An exercise designed to strengthen the rotator cuff muscle and the deltoid by raising one's arms in front of the body while holding weights and maintaining a straight back.


cadency

en-noun

cadency (countable and uncountable, plural cadencies)

(heraldry) Any systematic way of distinguishing similar coats of arms belonging to members of the same family.


buhlwork

(woodworking) Alternative form of buhl work


buhl work

The inlaid plates of brass and rosewood, called buhl work, which ornament our furniture, are, in some instances, formed by punching; but in this case, both the parts cut out, and those which remain, are in many cases employed.

1835, Charles Babbage, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, 4th edition, page 96:

(woodworking) Carved pieces of brass or other material for inlay in furniture and other woodwork.


chabot

Chabots[:] Or three chabots gu.

1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 839:

Over all an escutcheon of pretence : 1 and 4 , Gules, nine mascles conjoined or, 3, 3, 3 (Rohan); 2 and 3, Or, three chabots hauriant gules (Chabot).

1901, Ex Libris Society, The Journal of the Ex Libris Society, page 66:

"Or, three chabots gules” is the crest of a French family of the name of Chabot.

1904, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopaedia of Armory, London : T.C.; & E.C. Jack, page 186:

Arms : Gules three gemels gold on a quarter silver three chabots erect gules.

1928, New England Historic Genealogical Society. Committee on Heraldry, A Roll of Arms:

(heraldry, rare) A kind of fish, mainly found on the coat of arms of the Chabot family ("or, three chabots gules").


en creux

(engraving) In intaglio; by sinking or hollowing out the design.


escroll

Or, on a bend sable, three ostrich feathers argent, the quills transfixed through as many escrolls gold. - Sir Roger de CLARENDON, [natural son of Edward the Black Prince].

1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 238:

(heraldry) A long strip or scroll (resembling a ribbon or a band of parchment), sometimes bearing a motto or other text, either (rarely) used as a charge upon the shield, or placed above the shield and supporting the crest, or below the shield.


masculy

en-adj

masculy (comparative more masculy, superlative most masculy)

more masculy (comparative)
most masculy (superlative)

Masculy arg. and gu. William FITZWILLIAM, Y. Sire Robert POGEYS, N. PORGYES OF POGERS, co. Bucks. Sir John RIVERS, J, K.
Masculy arg. and sa. BEROMY, Cumberland. Sire T. de BEZOM, N. Nicolas de CROFTS, Y. […]

1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 977:

There are some number of coats which are said to have had a field masculy. Of course this is quite possible, and the difference between a field masculy and a field fretty is that in the latter the separate pieces of which it is composed interlace each other; but when the field is masculy it is all one fretwork surface, the field being visible through the voided apertures.

1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, page 148:

(heraldry) Bearing or composed of mascles.


rally cap

His cap was turned backwards in the manner of a catcher or a rally-cap, though he had no intention of catching and there certainly wasn't a rally going on.

2001, Melissa M. Dudek, Wildfire Summer: A Season With the Wyoming Wildfire, page 56:

"It's a rally cap! It's a rally cap!” shouted her father teasingly, rubbing her head with every base runner.

2005, Allen St. John, chapter 9, in Clapton's Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument, page 89:

[…]Brian always wore a Detroit Tigers baseball cap. He would turn his cap into a "rally cap" when anyone needed a bit of a rally in their lives.

2007, April 16th: Virginia Tech Remembers, page 207:

(US, baseball) A baseball cap worn inside-out and backwards, or in another unconventional manner, by players or fans, as a talisman in order to will a team into a come-from-behind rally late in the game.


bourdonnée

A shield of arms : bendy of six, over all a cross bourdonnée fitchée.

1898, British Museum. Department of Manuscripts, Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, page 185:

Crest - Upon a crest coronet or, charged with a cross bourdonnée azure, a pelican argent, holding in the bill a nail or. Motto - "Sine labe nota." Residence - Henley House, Avenue Road, Regent's Park, N.W. PILKINGTON[…]

1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 1282:

(heraldry, of a cross) Having the ends terminating in rounded knobs like those on a pilgrim's staff; pommetty.


three-and-out

(American football) The situation where a team is forced to punt the football without having made any first downs.


pannel

Old spelling of panel which became standard in falconry.

Glut is the slimy substance that lies in the hawk's pannel.

1860, John Potter Hamilton, Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman:

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909


cold-shut

(metalworking) Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; said of a forging or casting.


maximaphily

(philately) A branch of philately involving the study and creation of maximum cards.


raguled

Compare French raguer (“to chafe, fret, rub”), or English rag.


NVI

(philately) Initialism of (a stamp with) no value indicated.


slagger

Miravich closes his eyes and remembers his days as a slagger. When a mold is full, a slagger moves in with his tool, a technological marvel othereise known as a board slightly larger than a two-by-four. He leans out over the track and skims slag off the top of the boiling steel, risking what is called “catching a flyer,” which occurs when hot metal explodes out of the mold, spraying everyone in the vicinity.

2009, John Hoerr, Monongahela Dusk, page 255:


escalop

Old French escalope (“shell”), French escalope (“a sort of cut of meat”).

uder

(heraldry) A bearing or charge consisting of an escalop shell, considered as a sign that the bearer had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.


tricorporate

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tricorporate.

(heraldry) Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head.


antirocker

(skateboarding) A wheel configuration where the inside wheels are smaller than the outside ones.


duck call

(hunting) A hunter's technique of luring waterfowl by imitating its cry.

(hunting) A tool used to produce a whistling sound for this purpose.


merlette

From Late Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman merlet (from merle (“blackbird”) + -et (“suffix forming a noun”)), or from Middle French merlette (“little blackbird; merlette (heraldic charge)”) (from merle (“blackbird”)—formerly a feminine noun) + -ette (“diminutive suffix for a feminine noun”). Merle is from Latin merula (“blackbird”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ems- (“black; blackbird”).

der

(heraldry) In French heraldry, a depiction of a mythological bird without beak or feet.

martlet

depiction of a bird in English heraldry with stylized feet


banana ball

When trying to bend the ball around defenders, a defensive wall, or the goalie's outstretched hands, the banana ball is used.

1987, Kurt Aschermann, Coaching Kids to Play Soccer, →ISBN, page 53:

Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.

2001, Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles, →ISBN, page 155:

As we've seen, Imran was among the first to master the art, and in particular the extravagantly curving 'banana ball' that was to bring him a rich harvest of wickets in 1981 and beyond.

2009, Christopher Sandford, Imran Khan: The Cricketer, The Celebrity, The Politician, →ISBN, page 138:


banana shot

He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.

2002, Andrew Collins, Guild of Honor, →ISBN, page 53:

[...]Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.

2006, Richard Witzig, The Global Art of Soccer, →ISBN, page 247:

No one squealed, even though all saw Andrew unleash his poor imitation of a Brazilian Banana shot forty-five degrees away from its intended target.

2009, Wilson Orhiunu, Love Letters, →ISBN, page 85:

(sports) A shot with a ball sent on a curved banana-shaped trajectory.


scringe

Trawling, or scringing, for salmon trout is, in some respects, similar to splashing, and is also carried on between the hours of sunset and sunrise, in the nooks, bays, and other suitable places along the sore of either the coast or of the sea-water loch, into which rivulets and streams empty themselves, although there are many places in which the splash net can be advantageously used where the scringe cannot be employed, as the latter requires a clear bottom, without any impediments, otherwise it cannot be drawn to the shore.

1859 October, “Trawling, or Scringing, For Salmon Trout and Other Fish”, in The Knapsack, volume 1, page 258:

The scringe decidedly takes the precedence of the splash, provided sufficient strength as well as skill be employed for its effective management — because, if the net is not drawn equally and continuously towards the shore, many fish will escape.

1867, Irwin Edward Bainbridge Cox, Facts and Useful Hints Relating to Fishing and Shooting, page 24:

Of course, with surface-swimming fish the scringe or ground seine need not touch the bottom.

1895, John Bickerdyke, Sea Fishing, page 282:

(fishing) A type of dragnet with a bag in the center and a very fine mesh.


scringe

en-verb

scringe (third-person singular simple present scringes, present participle scringing, simple past and past participle scringed)

scringes (present singular third-person)
scringing (participle present)
scringed (participle past)
scringed (past)

The evil complained of, so far from having decreased, has been greater than before, as the men engaged in this lawless pursuit, finding that they scringe with impunity, have become emboldened, and are more industrious than ever.

1874, Archibald Young, Notes on the Scotch Salmon Fishery Acts of 1862 and 1868, page 30:

But in spite of their watchfulness, sometimes a black-looking boat slips over in the dead of night from somewhere in the neighbourhood of Oban, catches the keepers napping, and 'scringes' the mouth of a river, clearing off every salmon and sea-trout in the bay.

1918, Poor Law Magazine and Local Government Journal, page 349:


bogle

Uncertain; possibly cognate with bug or from Welsh bwgwly (“to terrify”).

At the turn of the Nineties, the footballer Ian Wright would often celebrate his goals by running to the corner flag, and doing a ‘bogling’ move—the ‘bogle’ was a ragamuffin reggae dance then popular in the black community.

2001 November 25, Diran Adebayo, “Young, gifted, black…and very confused”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

In Jamaica, there's a constant stream of new moves, corresponding to big club tunes. Dancers race to put videos online in the hope of starting the next bogle, dutty wine or hot wuk sensation.

2013 July 6, Kate Hutchinson, “It's summer, let's dance!”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(dance) A Jamaican dance move that involves raising and lowering the arms while moving the body in a waving motion.


AAU

Amateur Athletic Union
w:Amateur Athletic Union

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
w:Oxford University Press

(US, sports) Initialism of Amateur Athletic Union; also A.A.U.


flash cut

Be in a strong, balanced stance and ready to withstand any contact that may take place as you stop the flash cut.

1994, Hal Wissel, Basketball: Steps to Success, →ISBN, page 201:

If the opponent's post players have an advantage in size and strength, the flash cut will not be as effective because the defender can step in front of the cut and use and arm bar to prevent it from being executed.

2007, Kathy McGee, Coaching Basketball Technical and Tactical Skills, →ISBN, page 144:

When the defenders switch, the screener is open (option b) on the inside flash cut (slip) to the ball.

2008, Jerry Krause, Don Meyer, Jerry Meyer, Basketball Skills and Drills, →ISBN, page 32:

(sports, basketball) A quick move from the weak side toward the ball.


bridle path

A party came round the angle of a rock, along the narrow bridle-path, in single file; two ladies on horseback, followed by as many gentlemen on foot, and preceded by the usual guide.

1835, James Fenimore Cooper, The Monikins, Introduction:

It was not a bridle-path—merely a pedestrian's track, and the boughs spread horizontally at a height not greater than seven feet above the ground, which made it impossible to ride erect beneath them.

1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 3, in Far from the Madding Crowd:

Then in the evening, he came suddenly upon Sue riding a spirited black horse in a bridle path at the upper end of the park.

1916, Sherwood Anderson, chapter 5, in Windy McPherson's Son:

Some complaints about the Prospect Park trails seem to reflect the ever-present realities of urban horseback riding. Joggers and even bikers wander onto the bridle path.

2008 June 2, Kareem Fahin, “For Riders and Mounts, Rough Going in Prospect Park”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-10-03:

(equestrianism) An established trail used by riders mounted on horses.


sclaff

From Scot sclaf, to shuffle: of echoic orig (

(golf) A poor golf shot, where the club hits the ground before it hits the ball.


sclaff

sclaff (third-person singular simple present sclaffs, present participle sclaffing, simple past and past participle sclaffed)

sclaffs (present singular third-person)
sclaffing (participle present)
sclaffed (participle past)
sclaffed (past)


oversharpen

oversharpen (third-person singular simple present oversharpens, present participle oversharpening, simple past and past participle oversharpened)

oversharpens (present singular third-person)
oversharpening (participle present)
oversharpened (participle past)
oversharpened (past)

(transitive, photography) To sharpen too much.


B.A.S.E. jumping

If any of the extreme sports can be considered truly high risk, then B.A.S.E. Jumping is that sport. […] Modern B.A.S.E. jumping is believed to have started in 1978, where daring parachutists first began jumping off of El Capitan, a 3,000 foot (915m) cliff high above Yosemite National Park.

1996, Joe Tomlinson, The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports, Carlton Books, →ISBN, page 12:

(sports) Alternative form of BASE jumping


scap

(bodybuilding, exercise, colloquial) The scapula.


hiper

A tall wrestler who is an expert hiper is always a terror to a man of smaller stature. Edward Norman, of Carlisle, who stands close on six feet, is at present the best hiper in England.

1890, Walter Armstrong, Wrestling, page 14:

(wrestling) A wrestler who uses the hipe technique.


duck walk

(bodybuilding) A type of loaded walk in which the sportsman squats somewhat and steps forward or backward with his knees alternatingly while optionally carrying a dumbbell or kettlebell on each side or a kettlebell or cupped dumbbell between the legs.

The start is critical to the race's outcome. Racers run on their skates, lurching toward the first turn with a furious duck walk.

1998, Kevin Hillstrom et al., The Handy Sports Answer Book, page 410:

Generally skaters run on their stops until they are about to fall forward; then they change to the Duck Walk.

1979, Ann-Victoria Phillips, The Complete Book of Roller-Skating, page 195:

(skating) A means of acceleration, moving with each foot turned 45 degrees from the forward position.


neverfade

2 beautiful doubleweight gloss enlargements. 8 guaranteed neverfade prints each roll 25c.

1940 November, Popular Mechanics, volume 74, number 5, page 626:

(photography, printing, dated) Never fading; permanent.


doubleweight

To reproduce right-of-way, speed-restriction, yard-limit, and other signs, photograph the original signs, and make prints, scale size, on doubleweight paper.

1958 December, Boys' Life, volume 48, number 12, page 8:

(photography, printing) Being or relating to a paper of twice the ordinary weight.


floor general

(basketball) A point guard or other player who provides leadership by running the offense.


WHIP

walks plus hits per inning pitched
w:walks plus hits per inning pitched

(baseball) Acronym of walks plus hits per inning pitched; a statistic of the number of baserunners a pitcher has allowed per inning pitched.


detangler

(cycling) A device used with a freestyle BMX bicycle to allow the handlebars to turn 360° without tangling of the brake cables.


losing hazard

(English billiards) The situation where one's cue ball bounces off another ball and then sinks into a pocket. If the ball bounced off is the red ball, then three points are scored; but if it is the opponent's cue ball, then two points are scored.


winning hazard

(English billiards) When one's cue ball strikes some other ball and causes that other ball to sink into a pocket. If the sunken ball is the red ball then one scores three points, but if the sunken ball is the other player's cue ball then one scores two points.


backhead

backhead (third-person singular simple present backheads, present participle backheading, simple past and past participle backheaded)

backheads (present singular third-person)
backheading (participle present)
backheaded (participle past)
backheaded (past)

(soccer) To hit the ball with the back of the head


away goals rule

(sports) A rule whereby, in case of an aggregate draw, the team with the most away goals wins.


crancelin

From French crancelin, from German Kränzlein (“small garland”).

A chaplet of rue, sometimes called a crancelin, is blazoned bend-wise in the shield of Saxony – Barry often or and sa., over all a chaplet of rue vert.

1914, Charles Boutel, AC Fox-Davies, The Handbook to English Heraldry, page 151:

His arms show the crancelin of Saxony impaled with the crossed swords of the Marshalcy of the Empire which went with the Saxon Electorate.

1991, Jiří Louda, Michael Maclagan, Lines of Succession, page 204:

The crancelin, running from upper left to bottom right, took the form of a crenellated garland in deep green.

2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 565:

(heraldry) A chaplet of rue, as used as a charge on the arms of Saxony.


rubberbanding

From rubber band + -ing, referring to the fact that when two objects are connected by an elastic band then the movement of one is constrained by the other.

(video games, racing games) The speeding up of computer-controlled cars far behind the player, often as a method to increase the level of challenge provided to the player.


victory roll

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling) A wrestling pin in which the attacking wrestler jumps onto the opponent's shoulders from behind and rolls forward. As the attacker flips over, they hook the opponent's shoulders with their legs, flipping the opponent over onto their shoulders. The attacker hooks both of the opponent's legs to hold them in place for the pin.


Twin

(baseball) A player who plays for the Minnesota Twins.


Rangers

(baseball) The team Texas Rangers, located in Arlington, Texas.

(ice hockey) The team New York Rangers, located in New York City.

(soccer) The team Rangers F.C., located in Glasgow.


Ranger

(sports) A player on any of various teams called Rangers, such as the Texas Rangers (in baseball) or the New York Rangers (in ice hockey).


long Tom

Digging around second-hand shops you may come across an old newspaper or picture agency 'Long Tom' lens.

1976, David Hodgson, All about action photography, page 43:

One of the last 'Long Toms' produced for Fleet Street, it was used by a Daily Mirror photographer on Coronation Day, 2 June 1953.

1983, The Photographic Collector, volumes 4-5, page 87:

(photography) A high-powered lens for long-distance filming or photography.


crosskick

(rugby) A kicked pass from one side of the pitch to the other.


middle-distance

(athletics) Designating a race of length greater than that of a sprint but less than several kilometres


FA Cup

(soccer) The most prestigious cup competition held every season between clubs in the English leagues.


call time

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

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


field lacrosse

From field (“open field”) + lacrosse (“la crosse”).

compound

(sports) A variety of lacrosse played on a grassy field, outdoors.


[Huw] Jones was also involved in the second try, which started when [Finn] Russell received the ball near his own 22 and immediately detected that England’s defence was narrow, with Jonny May having strayed infield.

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


slipstitch

(crocheting) a stitch used to connect different parts of a work, achieved by pulling the thread through two non-adjacent loops


adarme

From Spanish adarme (“¹⁄₁₆ Spanish ounce, peso”), from Andalusian Arabic الدرهم (ad-dárham), from Arabic دِرْهَم (dirham, “dirham”), from Middle Persian 𐭦𐭥𐭦𐭭 (drahm), from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ, “drachma”). Doublet of dram, drachma, diram, dirham, and dirhem.

bor

<small>¹<big>⁄</big>₁₆</small> Spanish ounce, peso

doublet

(numismatics) Synonym of peso, during periods when it was a Spanish coin notionally equivalent to an adarme of gold.


crop out

en-verb

crop out (third-person singular simple present crops out, present participle cropping out, simple past and past participle cropped out)

crops out (present singular third-person)
cropping out (participle present)
cropped out (participle past)
cropped out (past)

In fact, Newsweek chose to crop out two-thirds of the original photograph, which showed Mrs. Cheney, both of their daughters, and one of their grandchildren, who were also in the kitchen, getting ready for a simple family dinner.

2009 September 17, David Hume Kennerly, “Essay: Chop and Crop”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-09:

(transitive, photography) To adjust the borders of an image in a way that would remove someone or something from it or make it fit a certain space.


octofoil

(heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf with eight lobes; a double quatrefoil.


Moneyball

After the 2003 book by business journalist Michael Lewis; from money + ball.

Sure, the Florida Marlins and some others have a shot, but the “Moneyball” approach — using spreadsheets and unconventional thinking to fell baseball’s rich Goliaths — seems to have been co-opted by the big guys themselves.

2009 August 7, Tom Kuntz, “‘Moneyball’ Is in a Slump”, in NYTimes Idea of the Day Blog:

Sure, statistical analysis has changed baseball's front offices for the better. A little. But most things haven't changed. The Red Sox version of Moneyball, after all, includes lots and lots of money, and there's nothing new there.

2011 September 2, “The ‘Moneyball’ Effect: Are Sabermetrics Good for Sports?”, in The Atlantic:

The moneyball formula in baseball—replacing scouts’ traditional beliefs and biases about players with data-intensive studies of what skills actually contribute most to winning—is just as applicable to the battle against out-of-control health-care costs.

2013 June 20, John Bridgeland, Peter Orszag, “Can Government Play Moneyball?”, in The Atlantic:

(baseball) Baseball management relying on sabermetrics.


twifoil

(heraldry) A head of two leaves growing out of a stem.


breathing gas

en-noun

breathing gas (countable and uncountable, plural breathing gases)

(underwater diving) A mixture of gases used for respiration in breathing equipment, typically in scuba diving.


dufoil

From duo (“two”) + foil (“leaf”). Compare twifoil.


rippable

en-adj

rippable (comparative more rippable, superlative most rippable)

more rippable (comparative)
most rippable (superlative)

If you can't look good while surfing Chun's, it's time to take up another sport. The biggest danger in surfing the easy, rippable waves at Chun's is tripping over your newly inflated ego.

2006, Greg Ambrose, Surfer's Guide to Hawaii 2nd Edition, page 86:

(surfing) Easy to rip on; allowing a surfer to perform like an expert.


check swing

(baseball) A checked (halted, partial) swing of the bat.


dead money

(sports, slang) Money paid by a team to a player or coach who is no longer a player or coach with the team.


sound post

(lutherie) A wooden rod located inside the body of a violin-family instrument, close to the treble-side bridge foot.


bowess

(obsolete, falconry) A bower, or young hawk.


(American football) Initialism of first down.


goal suck

From goal + suck (“self-pitying person”, noun).

A chicken is often called a “goal suck”, a “one way player” or a “cherry picker” during the course of his deviant career. These three types all involve an emphasis on scoring goals and avoiding situations and places on the ice where physical confrontations are likely to occur.

1983, Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Proceedings, page 14:

His team mates called him a goal-suck, but were pleased that he was.

1993, Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada - Issues 9-10, page 9:

Gretzky always broke out of his own zone really early — in shinny terms he'd be called a goal suck — while the other team still had the puck.

1999, Andrew Podnieks, The Great One: The Life and Times of Wayne Gretzky, page 1:

Included with each CD was a ballot, which the Hansons asked people to sign and return, boosting Williams for the Hall ahead of “some of those fancy-schmancy, no-hitting prima-donna whining millionaire goal sucks.”

2009, Don Weekes, The Biggest Book of Hockey Trivia, Vancouver: Greystone Books, page 76:

He was seen as an out-of-shape goal suck capable of only one thing: flinging the puck into the net every few games.

2016 June 7, James Mirtle, “Phil Kessel's playoff performance is proof he was fine in Toronto”, in The Globe and Mail:

(derogatory ice hockey slang) A player who loiters near the opposing net, hoping to score goals without doing the work of moving the puck down the ice. One who goal-sucks.


goal-suck

en-verb

goal-suck (third-person singular simple present goal-sucks, present participle goal-sucking, simple past and past participle goal-sucked)

goal-sucks (present singular third-person)
goal-sucking (participle present)
goal-sucked (participle past)
goal-sucked (past)

[p 77] But the essential rules were the same everywhere: no goal-sucking, no raising, unless whoever’s younger brother was stuck in goal was also foolish enough to wear shin-pads, no long shots, no throwing your stick to stop a breakaway.
[p 88] Forwards lurked near their opponents’ line and called for the puck by banging their sticks on the ice until someone hollered goal-sucking.
[p 238] Old rules came back. Anderson threw his stick along the ice at a breaking-away Semenko—how graceful he looked from this perspective!—and Semenko was awarded an automatic goal. Driscoll was called for goal-sucking.

1981, Peter Gzowski, The Game of Our Lives, Surrey, B.C.: Heritage House Publishing, published 2004:

[p 63] goal-sucking [i.e., waiting near the opponent’s goal for a long pass and ensuing scoring opportunity]
[p 64] In shinny, everyone wins. Though rules are scaled back, the game is not loosened beyond all form, and the driving competitive element remains. [. . .] ‘Goal-sucking’ is banned because there are neither offsides nor referees to judge them.

2010, Jason Blake, Canadian Hockey Literature, Toronto: University of Toronto Press:

For a second Charlie was tempted to goal suck and look for the stretch pass.

2012, David Skuy, Game Time: Overtime, →ISBN, page 181:

Wound up with nothing to show for his night except a well-deserved -1 in the dying seconds when he was goal-sucking out at the blueline for an empty netter while his man slipped into the slot to narrow the lead to one.

2013 March 17, Bruce McCurdy, “Edmonton Oilers player grades — Oil's 3-2 win over Preds no beauty, but 2 points are 2 points”, in Edmonton Journal:

(derogatory, ice hockey, slang, intransitive) To loiter near the opposing net, hoping to score an easy goal.


pottable

(billiards, snooker) In billiards, pool, or snooker: able to be potted.


lanterne rouge

en-noun

lanterne rouge (plural lanternes rouges)

From French lanterne rouge (literally “red lantern”), referring to the red lantern at the rear of a train.

bor

(chiefly sports) The competitor in last place in a competition; the person or entity at the bottom of a ranking

(chiefly sports, originally cycling) Last place in a competition or other ranking


Süper Lig

(soccer) The highest division of professional football in Turkey.


croquet mallet

(sports) The wooden mallet used in croquet to strike the ball


archetier

Yielding inexpensive means whereby his preternatural gifts could be awakened, puncheon strips were later put aside for that most desirable of all bow woods—pernambuco. It was about 1775 that fate ordained young Tourte to see what other archetiers had done, and then proceed to do it better.

1965, Music Journal - Volume 23, page 45:

Nowadays, the craft of the 'archetier', or bow maker, is entirely separated from that of the 'luthier', or instrument maker.

1999, Robin Stowell, The Cambridge Companion to the Cello, →ISBN, page 28:

The following are photographs of a few of the many ancient bows made by the contemporary master archetier Eitan Hoffer who operates a shop in Israel.

2015, Michael J. Pagliaro, The String Instrument Owner's Handbook, →ISBN, page 23:

(lutherie) One who builds, repairs, and restores the bows of instruments in the violin family.


park the bus

en-verb

park the bus (third-person singular simple present parks the bus, present participle parking the bus, simple past and past participle parked the bus)

parks the bus (present singular third-person)
parking the bus (participle present)
parked the bus (participle past)
parked the bus (past)

England goalkeeper Gordon Banks resisted everything Liverpool threw at him that day, as City parked the bus and banked on snatching the vital single goal and then holding on.

2011, John Williams, Red Men: Liverpool Football Club – The Biography:

Dan is Head Groundsman at Swansea, who in 2011/12 won plaudits For their positive, passing game - showing that you don't need to park the bus as a promoted side to retain top-flight status.

2012, The League Doesn't Lie: The 606 Book of Football Lists, page 311:

(soccer, idiomatic) To attempt to stop the opposition team from scoring a goal by playing extremely defensively and placing as many players as possible behind the ball.


boot out

boot out (third-person singular simple present boots out, present participle booting out, simple past and past participle booted out)

boots out (present singular third-person)
booting out (participle present)
booted out (participle past)
booted out (past)

(intransitive, skiing, skating) To fall or slide out of a turn due to excessive lean, which causes the athlete's boot to contact and pivot on the surface and the proper surface contact element to lose contact and traction.


puntel

(glassblowing) Archaic form of punty (“rod used in glassblowing”).


WIT

(hunting, Australia) Initialism of waterfowl identification test.


contact print

(photography) A print made by exposing the printing paper to light through a negative that is placed directly onto it.


single-lens reflex

From single + lens (contrasted against a twin-lens reflex camera, TLR), and reflex (“reflection”), the principle by which the image path is diverted.

(photography) Denoting or relating to a type of camera which allows the photographer to view the subject through the same lens that will be used to take a photograph, usually by incorporating a moving mirror and prism.


single-lens reflex

en-noun

single-lens reflex (plural single-lens reflexes)

single-lens reflex camera
single-lens reflex camera#English

(photography) Abbreviation of single-lens reflex camera.

單反

a camera allowing one to view through the same lens used to take a photograph


boulework

(woodworking) Archaic form of buhl work.


ECWC

European Cup Winners Cup
w:European Cup Winners Cup

(soccer) Initialism of European Cup Winners Cup.


bevilled

(heraldry) Notched with an angle like that enclosed by a carpenter's bevel; said of a partition line of a shield.


going barrel

(horology) A barrel containing the mainspring, with teeth on its periphery to drive the train.

(horology) A device for maintaining a force to drive the train while the timepiece is being wound up.


patté

French patté, from patte (“paw, foot”). Compare English patten.

(heraldry, of a cross) Narrow at the inner end, and very broad at the other end, or having its arms of that shape


shot stopper

(soccer, colloquial) A goalkeeper. More specifically refers to the ability to make saves, as opposed to other areas of goalkeeping like distribution and coming off the line.


antiblooming

(photography) Preventing the blooming phenomenon, where excessive light causes large bright patches in a picture.


tag up

en-verb

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

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

(baseball) Of a baserunner, when a fly ball is hit, to put one's foot on the base one is currently at until the ball is caught. When the ball is caught, the baserunner may attempt to advance to the next base, at the risk of being tagged out.


tailer

(fishing) A large noose with a long handle intended to secure a fish's tail.

(fishing) A fish bottom-feeding in shallow water with its tail out of the water.


Bell shot

After Walter "Karamojo" Bell, a Scottish big game hunter.

(hunting, firearms) A shot at an animal's head taken diagonally from behind.


Russian bar

(circus arts) A gymnastics-style beam held by two porters used to do gymnastics-style tricks.


high intensity training

en-noun

high intensity training (usually uncountable, plural high intensity trainings)

(sports) A weight training system developed for bodybuilders, focused on performing repetitions to the point of momentary muscular failure.


crinel

(obsolete, falconry) Alternative form of crinet


downrigger

(fishing) A large reel of heavily weighted steel wire fishing line used to fish with trolled bait at great depths.


danzón

(dance) A dance style associated with danzón music.


scale cube

(geology, photography) A reference cube of standard, unitary size, normally one centimetre long, or one inch long for older American versions, placed beside a rock or meteorite sample to show scale and orientation during photography. Four sides of the cube are marked N, S, E, and W, respectively, to indicate the cardinal points of the compass, and the other two sides are marked T and B, for top and bottom.


red ball

* ("high-profile high-priority" sense) From a routing system on the Santa Fe Railroad in the early 1900s. Fast freight trains which were to receive priority routing were marked with placards depicting a red disc, and were called "red ball" trains.

Or are the red-ball and white-ball games diverging to the extent that it is possible to envisage a future where they are, to all intents and purposes, different sports?

2017 January 28, Jonathan Liew, “To cling together or drift apart? Red and white-ball cricket facing a divided future”, in The Daily Telegraph, London:

limited overs cricket
limited overs cricket

(cricket, journalism, metonymically, uncountable) first-class cricket, as distinct from limited overs cricket (or "white ball")


flea flicker

(American football) A trick offensive play in which the quarterback laterals the ball to the running back, who then runs a short distance, then laterals the ball back to the quarterback.


unquartered

An heir may bear his father's arms unquartered, but he is not entitled by the common law of arms to bear his mother's so.

1914, John Horne Stevenson, Heraldry in Scotland, page 337:

John's father, also John, whose seal was seen somewhere by Streatfeild (in whose MSS. there is a drawing of the seal) used a plain unquartered shield of the Pashley crowned and double-queued lion[…]

(chiefly heraldry) Not divided into quarters.


PTBNL

If the PTBNL is Ben Ford, or if the DBacks plan on signing Womack long-term, then this is definitely a bad trade. As I see it now, I'd say there's a 90% chance the DBacks get the better end (by a tiny tiny margin) and a 10% chance the Pirates get the better end (possibly by a huge margin).

1999 February 27, ddr...@imap1.asu.edu, “Re: Arizona does it again...”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet):

player to be named later
player to be named later#English

(baseball) Initialism of player to be named later (“an unspecified player, either not yet chosen or named publicly, at the time of a trade between teams”).


autoiris

(photography) A camera iris that adjusts automatically based on light levels.


JDT

(Jamaica, sports) Initialism of Jamaica Dogsled Team.

(soccer, Malaysia) Initialism of Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C.. (a Malaysian football club)


taijiquan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 太極拳／太极拳 (tàijíquán).

zh-l

太極拳／太极拳 (tàijíquán)

Chinese martial arts have existed for well over 3,000 years. Wrestling and swordsmanship both have a long history, as do Chinese Internal Alchemy and breathing methods. These disparate elements, married by Yin Yang theory, became what we now call Tai Chi Chuan.

[2009, Dan Docherty, Tai Chi Chuan: Decoding the Classics for the Modern Martial Artist, Crowood Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 11:


trad bolted

traditional climb
traditional climbing#English

(climbing) Being a bolted traditional climb.


scorpion volley

en-noun

scorpion volley (plural scorpion volleys)


suicide pass

suicide + pass
Deriving from the likelihood of being checked off the play and losing possession of the puck, being a suicidal act in puck possession.

(ice hockey) a pass going up-ice where the passee must look behind towards the passer for the location of the puck, therefore being left unaware of opposition players further up-ice, allowing the passee to be checked from a blind spot


tiki-taka

(soccer) A style of play characterised by short passing and movement, working the ball through various channels, and maintaining possession.


groundline

(fishing) A weighted fishing line that lies along the floor of the body of water in which the user is fishing.


underpush

(skating) A movement of the trailing leg laterally under the body, generating momentum.


overpush

(skating) A movement of the leading leg laterally under the body, generating momentum


freeflow

(underwater diving) In scuba diving, the situation where the diving regulator continues to supply air instead of cutting off the supply when the diver stops inhaling.


niblick shot

The feeling of satisfaction when one hits a good drive is different from that attendant on hitting a good niblick shot; and both are quite different from that attendant on writing a good sentence or doing a good dive.

1958–1960, R.S. Peters, The Concept of Motivation, Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition), chapter i: “Types of Explanation in Psychological Theories”, page 25

(golf, dated) A shot traversing a short distance that requires the use of a sand wedge, typically taken from a bunker.


near side

(equestrianism) The left-hand side of a horse.


bridlewise

en-adj

bridlewise (comparative more bridlewise, superlative most bridlewise)

more bridlewise (comparative)
most bridlewise (superlative)

(equestrianism, of a horse) Responsive to the bridle.


Confed

(soccer, informal) The Confederations Cup


West Brom

(informal, soccer) West Bromwich Albion Football Club


boot boy

Among Bryan Gunn's myriad incarnations, from Alex Ferguson's babysitter through Scotland goalkeeper to Norwich manager, boot boy to Alex McLeish was one of the less successful. Once, just before a Scottish Cup final, McLeish discovered his size 10s were still in Aberdeen.

2009 March 22, Phil Shaw, “Gunn peppers Birmingham's automatic promotion hopes”, in The Guardian:

(British, soccer) A boy who cares for a footballer's boots.


ski bunny

(slang, skiing) An attractive female at a ski resort, especially one who is more interested in being seen than in skiing.


erminois

(heraldry) In blazon, ermine with a field or instead of argent (gold with black spots).

guldhermelin

of gold colour with black spots on a coat of arms


foothole

From foot + hole, possibly influenced by foothold.

The 24-year-old, who made three one-day appearances against Australia last summer, injured his ankle on Wednesday and further damaged it yesterday when he slipped in the footholes.

"The wicket didn't play too bad today. Day five is going to be the biggest worry. The footholes will get bigger as the day goes on."

(cricket) A hole in a cricket pitch made by the bowler's foot during the runup.

(mining, climbing) A hole into which the foot can be wedged to aid in climbing; a foothold.


drive in

en-verb

drive in (third-person singular simple present drives in, present participle driving in, simple past drove in, past participle driven in)

drives in (present singular third-person)
driving in (participle present)
drove in (past)
driven in (participle past)

(transitive, baseball, of a hitter) To hit the ball or reach base in such a way that a run scores.


soffietta

From Italian soffietta, from soffiare + -etta.

(glassblowing) A tool consisting of a metal tube, often swan necked, attached to a conical nozzle. The nozzle is used to block the mouth of a glass vessel so that it can be further inflated by blowing into the tube.


photoserigraph

(photography, art) A serigraph made from an existing photograph


photoserigraphy

(photography, art) The production of photoserigraphs


HCV

(philately) Initialism of high catalogue value.


full-bound

en-adj

full-bound (comparative more full-bound, superlative most full-bound)

more full-bound (comparative)
most full-bound (superlative)

(bookbinding) Bound entirely in leather.


pontil mark

(glassblowing) A ring-shaped or irregular scar on a glass object from where it was joined with a pontil or blowpipe. Common on bottles prior to the 1830s.


red-inker

(informal, cricket) A not out batsman (whose score is recorded in red ink).


micronut

(climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).


Conehead

(sports, fandom slang, slang) A fan of baseball pitcher David Cone.


sixth man

(basketball) A player who is not a starter but comes off the bench much more often than other reserves.


mintless

a mintless coin


forward line

Now Hodgson just has to work out a makeshift forward line against a Ukraine team who warmed up for Tuesday by doling out the obligatory thrashing to San Marino, knocking in four goals by half-time and another five in the second half.

6 September 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban”, in The Guardian:


freeline

en-verb

freeline (third-person singular simple present freelines, present participle freelining, simple past and past participle freelined)

freelines (present singular third-person)
freelining (participle present)
freelined (participle past)
freelined (past)

(fishing) To fish with a simple hook and bait, without floats, sinkers, etc.


From America's Cup + 45, because it measures approximately 45 feet on the waterline.

(sports) a catamaran sailing racing yacht, with a wingsail mainsail, developed for the 2013 America's Cup world tour, the 2013 America's Cup pre-regatta tune-up league, called the America's Cup World Series.


From America's Cup + 72, because it measures approximately 72 feet on the waterline.

(sports) a catamaran sailing racing yacht, with a wingsail mainsail, developed for the 2013 America's Cup


Blend of America's Cup + 90, because it measures approximately 90 feet on the waterline.

(sports) A class of monohull sailing racing yacht, a type of supermaxi.


Old Firm

(soccer) Collectively, the two Scottish football teams Rangers and Celtic, both based in Glasgow, which are the most successful teams in Scotland. They have a fierce and long-standing rivalry.


LOOGY

(baseball) Lefty one-out guy, or left-handed one-out guy, a left-handed pitcher who specializes in pitching to left-handed batters and rarely faces right-handed batters.


dark slide

(photography) A plate that covers the sensitized emulsion side of a photographic plate.


ticat

(Canadian football) A team member for the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats. (Rendered as Ti-Cat.)


minute man

I confess that the sight of my minute man ahead, getting closer and closer, gives me a little more drive even when I think I am going as fast as I can.

1986, Fred Matheny, Solo Cycling: How to Train and Race Bicycle Time Trials, page 136:

(cycling) The cyclist starting one minute ahead of, or behind, another rider in a time trial.


come back from the dead

come back from the dead (third-person singular simple present comes back from the dead, present participle coming back from the dead, simple past came back from the dead, past participle come back from the dead)

comes back from the dead (present singular third-person)
coming back from the dead (participle present)
came back from the dead (past)
come back from the dead (participle past)

(chiefly sports, idiomatic) To experience a resurgence after one's productive years are assumed to have ended.


stock sheet

(philately) A strong card, typically black, with firm clear plastic strips placed horizontally, used to store or display stamps.


Hagner

(philately) A stamp display stock sheet made by Hagner UK, or, through trademark erosion, any similar stock sheet.


counter-ermine

(heraldry) A tincture consisting of a black background with ermine shapes in white.


cordeliere

(heraldry) A decorative cord, especially that surrounding a blazon used to display a widow's coat of arms.


cramponned

(heraldry) Bent over at the ends like a crampon.


take it to the house

take it to the house (third-person singular simple present takes it to the house, present participle taking it to the house, simple past took it to the house, past participle taken it to the house)

takes it to the house (present singular third-person)
taking it to the house (participle present)
took it to the house (past)
taken it to the house (participle past)

(American football) To score a touchdown, especially after a long run.


break-off

(billiards, snooker) The first shot in a game of snooker or other cue-game


quarter farthing

en-noun

quarter farthing (plural quarter farthings)

[‘]The score, however, was only 10 thalers, 4 groschen, 6 pfennigs’ (30 shillings, 5 pence, and 2 or perhaps 3 quarter-farthings), ‘for what I had run-up in eight weeks[.]’

1750 June–August, Thomas Carlyle, in The Works of Thomas Carlyle III (2010), ed. Henry Duff Traill, page 257

(historical numismatics) A British coin, produced for circulation in Ceylon 1839–1853, which, at a face value of ⅟₁₆d. (£⅟₃₈₄₀), is the lowest denomination of coin ever minted for the United Kingdom.

quart de farthing

former British coin denominated to ⅟₁₆d.


luigino

/ˌluːiːˈd͡ʒiːnəʊ/

Borrowed from Italian luigino, from luigi (“louis”) + -ino (diminutive suffix).

(historical numismatics) An imitation coin, based on the French petit louis, once used mostly as an ornament.

Really, how often do you need to figure out how many Seborga luiginos are equal to 800 Uzbekistan soms?

2010, David A. Crowder, Building a Web Site For Dummies, page 266:

And in tiny, proud Seborga, pockets bulging with luiginos, His Tremendousness makes his way along the cobbles, singing to himself, in the words of the old patriotic hymn […].

2009, Travel & Leisure, volume 39, page 111:

(numismatics) The local currency of the internationally unrecognised micronation of Seborga, in northeastern Italy.


three halfpence

head

three halfpence (sometimes a plural noun with the singular three halfpenny, sometimes singular, plural three halfpences)

(historical numismatics) A silver coin with a face value of one and a half pence (1½d.):

Such an English coin (1½d.), minted 1561–1582.

Such a British coin (1½d. = £⅟₁₆₀), minted 1834–1843 and 1860–1862 for circulation in the colonies of the British Empire (chiefly Ceylon and the West Indies).


kneebar

(climbing) A climbing technique in which the climber uses a knee for leverage or support.


heel hook

(climbing) An action using the heel to balance on a wall or rock.


figure four

From figure + four. From creating a figure that is akin to the glyph "4".


bang-bang

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

In a game between Los Angeles and host Cincinnati, the Dodgers second baseman is called out at first base on a bang-bang play.

2006, Dom Forker, Big League Baseball Puzzlers, →ISBN, page 41:

(baseball) Of a play, very close between being an out and being safe.


goalminder

(sports) a designated player that attempts to prevent the opposing team from scoring by protecting a goal.


bélé

Possibly from French belle aire, though African origins have been suggested.

(music, dance, Caribbean) A genre of music and group dance from the Creole cultures of Dominica and other Caribbean islands, in modern times mostly performed to celebrate holidays and special occasions.


wheel of death

(circus) A hollow wheel larger than a person, attached to and suspended from an axle, and inside of which an artist performs.

rueda de la muerte

large hollow wheel inside which an artist performs


backoff

en-noun

backoff (countable and uncountable, plural backoffs)

The surfer is in the middle of a backoff. Paddle for unbroken waves butterfly-style, with both arms at the same time, instead of using the crawl stroke that got you out to where the waves are breaking.

1997, James MacLaren, Learn to Surf, page 82:

I fastened the board's leash to my ankle, jumped on and paddled past the backoff.

2012, Kimberly Young Chopin, Metamorphosis: A Love Story, page 22:

(surfing) The situation where an incoming wave passes from shallower water to a deeper area, making the wave less steep and potentially unsurfable.


shambrough

(heraldry) A depiction of a boat or ship.


raguly

(heraldry) Having short alternating projections and depressions; notched in regular diagonal breaks; said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.


thirteener

(US, climbing) A mountain rising to more than 13,000 feet above mean sea level.


zule

Those of Zulestein, are Gules, three Zules, Or.

1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry, page 117:

ZULE : a chess rook : so called in the coat of ZULEISTEIN (gules, three zules argent, a label of three points of the last,) borne on an escutcheon surtout by the earls of Rochford.

1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 330:

FREDERICK NASSAU DE ZUYLESTEIN, EARL OF ROCHFORD Quarterly, [...] over all, in an escutcheon Gules three zules Argent, two and one, for Zuylestein.

1914, Joint Publishing Committee Representing the London County Council and the London Survey Committee, Survey of London:

(heraldry) One of the three stylized pillars (often considered chess rooks) in the canting arms of Frederick Nassau de Zuylestein.


respotted black

respotted black (plural respotted blacks)

(snooker) In a frame that ends in both players having the same score, a tiebreaker where the black is put on its spot and the first player must play from the D until one player pots the black.


push shot

(snooker) A shot where the cue ball is in contact with the object ball while the cue is in contact with the cue ball. Such a shot is a foul.


cross-training

(sports) athletic training in a sport other than one's primary sport


one-pocket

(billiards) A pool game in which points are scored by potting balls into specific designated pockets.


touching ball

(snooker) An instance where the cue ball is touching a potential object ball. If the player hits the ball in question, it is a foul shot.


anastigmat

Practically any camera will produce good results in this kind of photography provided that it has a good anastigmat lens and a reliable shutter; that the case is light proof; and that it is not asked to do more than it is capable of.

1950 December, Canon Eric Treacy, “Railway Photography”, in Railway Magazine, page 796:


armorially

(heraldry) In terms of or by means of armorial bearings.


Gull

In reference to the seagulls found in Torquay, a coastal town.

(soccer) A player, supporter or other person connected with Torquay United Football Club.


Dagger

(soccer) A player, supporter or other person connected with Dagenham & Redbridge Football Club.


fag out

en-verb

fag out (third-person singular simple present fags out, present participle fagging out, simple past and past participle fagged out)

fags out (present singular third-person)
fagging out (participle present)
fagged out (participle past)
fagged out (past)

(cricket, obsolete) To come on as a fielder at the behest of a senior student in British schools.


Shrimp

(soccer) A player, supporter or other person connected with Morecambe Football Club.


rock garden

(cycling) A rock-strewn path, part of a mountain biking racecourse


ice queen

This time, she was beaten by 16-year-old Tanja Szewczenko, who is threatening to usurp the two-time Olympic champion, Katarina Witt, as Germany's ice queen.

1993 November 24, Jere Longman, “Olympics: 80 Days to Lillehammer”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-01-02:

Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yuna will make her return to competition at the Golden Spin event in Zagreb next month.

2013 November 4, Narae Kim, “Ice Queen Yuna returns with a Golden Spin”, in Reuters Canada, retrieved 2014-01-02:

(informal, sports) A female ice-skating champion.


starting price

(horse racing) The final odds on a horse when the race starts; also used to designate a system of fixed-odds betting using such prices. Abbreviation: SP.


duck fart

Surhoff blooped a weak duck fart into shallow right field.

(baseball, slang) A ball hit by a batter into the gray area between the infield and outfield, usually tailing away from whoever is trying to catch it.


save by the bell

save by the bell (third-person singular simple present saves by the bell, present participle saving by the bell, simple past and past participle saved by the bell)

saves by the bell (present singular third-person)
saving by the bell (participle present)
saved by the bell (participle past)
saved by the bell (past)

With 35 seconds left in the fight, the Siberian Rocky landed a lethal right hook that staggered Bradley and forced him to take a knee following a few more hard blows, thus saving Bradley by the bell.

2013 December 30, “Behind The Gloves 2013 Picks!”, in behindthegloves.com, retrieved 2014-01-22:

(transitive, boxing, wrestling) In a boxing or wrestling match or similar competition, to ring the bell which concludes the round and thereby to prevent a competitor who has been knocked down from being counted out by the referee.


saved by the bell

Forrest floored Mosley again at the end of the round and almost finished him, but Mosley was saved by the bell.

2002 July 19, Damon Hack, “Boxing: Despite Not Having the Title, Mosley Garners Attention”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-01-06:

(boxing, wrestling, of a competitor) In a boxing or wrestling match or similar competition, spared from being counted out by the referee by the ringing of the bell which concludes the round.


Buccos

(US, baseball) nickname of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team.


G-men

(US, American football) A nickname of the New York Giants football team.


early shower

Because players typically take a shower after the game.

He was immediately yanked from the game and given an early shower.

2003, William McNeil, The Single-Season Home Run Kings, page 51:

(sports) The act of a player being sent off.


greensome

(golf) A foursome game with the difference that both players tee off on every hole. The better ball is chosen and alternate strokes are then played to complete the hole.


autobracketing

(photography) A camera feature where several successive shots are taken with slightly different settings and then automatically combined.


flash powder

en-noun

flash powder (countable and uncountable, plural flash powders)

(photography) A powder that burns with a very rapid flash when ignited; used in pyrotechnics and early flash photography.


range of motion

range of motion (plural ranges of motion)

(bodybuilding) The distance in which the relevant body parts travel during an exercise.


EVF

(photography) Initialism of electronic viewfinder.


databack

(photography) A mechanism for imprinting the date and time onto film.


carpenter's pencil

carpenter's pencil (plural carpenters' pencils)

(woodworking, carpentry) A pencil specifically designed for the requirements of a carpenter: oval shape makes it less likely to roll away, thick graphite facilitates drawing on rough surfaces and the red colour makes it easy to find when dropped among construction debris.


goombay

goombay (countable and uncountable, plural goombays)

Afro-Caribbean dialects; compare Kongo nkombi, a type of drum.

(music, dance, Bahamas, countable) A type of traditional Bahamian drum.

(music, dance, Bahamas, uncountable) A genre of folk music played with this drum.

(music, dance, Bahamas) A dance associated with this music genre.


buttcheck

(US, snowboarding) The act of putting one's behind down to check a fall, while staying sliding along the snow on the snowboard.


buttcheck

en-verb

buttcheck (third-person singular simple present buttchecks, present participle buttchecking, simple past and past participle buttchecked)

buttchecks (present singular third-person)
buttchecking (participle present)
buttchecked (participle past)
buttchecked (past)

(US, snowboarding) To put one's behind down to check a fall, while staying sliding along the snow on the snowboard.


disabled sport

en-noun

disabled sport (countable and uncountable, plural disabled sports)

(countable, sports) A sport played by people with a physical disability


parasport

parasport (countable and uncountable, plural parasports)


violin maker

(lutherie) A person who makes violins, and usually other bowed stringed instruments such as violas, cellos and double basses.


tailgut

(music, lutherie) A cord which loops through the tailpiece and around the endpin of stringed musical instruments, and which is held at tension by a knot to secure the tailpiece to the body, traditionally made only of gut but now also made of nylon, wire and other synthetic materials.


sideslipper

(snowboarding, freestyle skiing) a staff member on a halfpipe who reshapes the slope to keep the halfpipe usable, through sideslipping, shaving on the sides aboard their snowboards


draw weight

The enormous draw weight of the English longbow required archers to train from a very young age to be capable of using it.

She figured her bow had only a forty-pound draw weight, but it was enough.

2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 27:

(archery) The force (weight) required to draw a bow to its fully-cocked position.

(curling) The force (weight) of delivering a stone required for it to come to rest in the house (to draw).


PGS

parallel giant slalom
parallel giant slalom#English

(snowboarding) Initialism of parallel giant slalom.


PSL

PSL (countable and uncountable, plural PSLs)

(snowboarding) Initialism of parallel slalom.


shutter priority

Most digital cameras (except for inexpensive auto-only models) have a shutter priority shooting mode. . . . [O]nce you select this setting, you can freely choose the shutter speed and the camera will set the matching aperture to properly expose the photo.

2006 August 22, Dave Johnson, "Making the Most of Shutter Priority Mode," PC World (reposted on techhive.com) (retrieved 25 Feb 2014)

(photography, often used attributively) A setting in many professional-grade and advanced-amateur-grade cameras which allows a photographer to manually set the shutter speed of an exposure while the camera then automatically selects the correct aperture setting for that exposure.


aperture priority

For landscapes, still lifes, portraits and the like, you'll want an aperture-priority camera. It lets you set the lens opening, while it sets the shutter speed automatically.

1978 October, “One of these cameras was made just for you”, in Penthouse, retrieved 2014-02-25, page 22:

(photography, often used attributively) A setting in many professional-grade and advanced-amateur-grade cameras which allows a photographer to manually set the aperture setting of an exposure while the camera then automatically selects the correct shutter speed for that exposure.

prioridade de abertura

camera setting with automatic shutter speed for aperture exposure set manually


stat padding

(sports, roleplaying games) an action that improves a player's statistics despite being of little benefit to his or her team or its chance of winning


Cove

(Australia, soccer) The official active supporters' group of Sydney FC (an Australian soccer club based in Sydney).


play the angles

en-verb

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

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

Stengel also had trouble with balls bouncing off the outfield fences. . . . "If you want somebody to play the angles," the frustrated rookie replied, "why don't you hire a pool player?"

1996, Robert W. Creamer, Stengel: His Life and Times, →ISBN, page 43:

“It’s good to get back on the ice and back to NHL habits,” Smid said. “The rink is a little bit smaller here and you’ve got to play the angles differently.”

2014 February 23, James Emery, “Flames welcome back Olympians Smid, Berra”, in Calgary Sun, Canada, retrieved 2014-03-01:

(sports, of a defensive player or goaltender) In a game which involves control of a moving object, such as a ball or puck, to allow for angular movements of the object caused by bounces, rebounds, ricochets, etc. or to carefully guard the corners of the goal, net, or other scoring target.

McEnroe was broken again in the sixth game, making three uncharacteristic errors. His volleys lacked crispness. Instead of playing the angles, he was hitting them right back to Mayotte.

1987 February 9, Peter Alfano, “Tennis: Mayotte defeats McEnroe in 4 sets”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-03-01:

Whoever is playing for Arsenal, they just love to cram central areas and knock the ball around in the attacking third. Whether they are playing the angles with quick one-twos, or passing and following the path of the ball, they are forever moving you around defensively.

2014 March 1, Mike Pejic, “Making the Britannia Stadium a fortress key to Stoke City's Premier League survival”, in The Sentinel, UK, retrieved 2014-03-01:

(sports, of an offensive player) In a game which involves control of a moving object, such as a ball or puck, to seek scoring opportunities by advancing on or shooting at the scoring target in an angular manner across the field of play.


Caballerial

Blend of Caballero + aerial, after Steve Caballero, who invented the trick in the early 1980s.

(skateboarding) A 360-degree ollie while riding fakie.


printing frame

(photography) A shallow box, usually having a glass front, in which prints are made by exposure to light.


Messian

Every game, every attempted dribble, every pass, every goal (all of which, together, create the Messian mode of jouissance), is an “experiment” in which Messi seeks to conserve himself at the highest possible level, with the greatest amount of integrity.

2019, Grant Farred, Entre Nous: Between the World Cup and Me, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page unknown:

This week Lothar Matthaus compared him to Lionel Messi. […] His goal was typically Messian, he dribbled to the edge of the box before presenting the ball to a team-mate, and telegraphing with his run where he wanted the ball played back to him before sending an unerring shot at goal.

2022 October 29, “Bayern Munich 6-2 Mainz: Sadio Mane one of six different players to score as Julian Nagelsmann's team move top”, in Eurosport:

There is a kind of melancholy to the final from a Messian perspective. Argentina are favourites to win their first World Cup since 1986, reaching this point after playing some of the most impressive and effective football of the tournament.

2022 December 18, Samantha Lewis, “Argentina and France might be playing in the final but Qatar is the real winner of the FIFA World Cup”, in ABC News:

(soccer, rare) Of or pertaining to Lionel Messi (born 1987), Argentine professional footballer, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.


gobony

From gobbon (“piece, portion, slice”) + -y, from Old French gobon, gobet (“piece”). Cognate with English gubbins (“assorted stuff”).

Argent, a lion rampant azure, debruised by a bend gobony ermine and gules.

1899, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families, T.C. & E.C. Jack, page 320:

There is no difficulty whatever in drawing a gobony or a checky bordure.

1945, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 99, New England Historic Genealogical Society, page 278:

The coat of Steenhuse appears a second time, no. 638, but here it is in the usual form, Bendy of six or and azure with the ombre of a lion over all and a border gobony argent and gules. An odd feature is that the segments of the gobony borders are cut diagonally[…].

1949, Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, Volume 93, Society of Antiquaries of London, page 132:


slamball

(sports) A variety of basketball in which trampolines are positioned in front of each net.


footgolf

(sports) A variant of golf in which players attempt to kick a football (“soccer ball”) into a depressed cup set into the turf.


odd man

From odd + man, probably after a Scandinavian source. Compare Old Norse odda-maðr.

(rowing) A man who trains in company with a boat's crew, so that he can take the place of anybody who falls ill.


hit off the line

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

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

Peerless, on the other hand, was worthy of her appellation, and frequently hit off the line when the others were at a loss to know which way their fox had gone across a bit of cold ploughland.

1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 198:

(hunting) Of a hound, to pick up the scent of a quarry after a check.


outqualify

outqualify (third-person singular simple present outqualifies, present participle outqualifying, simple past and past participle outqualified)

outqualifies (present singular third-person)
outqualifying (participle present)
outqualified (participle past)
outqualified (past)

(sports) To qualify in a higher position than another


WJ

(sports) Abbreviation of world junior record.


Citeh

Respelling of a local pronunciation of (Manchester) city.

(soccer, informal) Manchester City Football Club


FCUM

F.C. United of Manchester
w:F.C. United of Manchester

(UK, soccer) Initialism of F.C. United of Manchester.


MCFC

Manchester City Football Club
w:Manchester City F.C.

(soccer) Initialism of Manchester City Football Club.

Melbourne City Football Club
w:Melbourne City FC

(soccer) Initialism of Melbourne City Football Club.


baitcasting

(fishing) A form of casting in which the weight of the bait pulls the fishing line off of the spool (subject to some control by thumb pressure)


baitwell

(fishing) A water-filled container for preserving live bait until needed.


highback

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

(snowboarding) Part of a boot binding that extends from the back of the foot to cover the lower leg.


pick-up game

(sports) An impromptu game that is spontaneously started by a group of players.


taekwondoka

< taekwondo, formed according to the pattern of judoka and karateka. Consists of the Korean word 태권도 (taegwondo) and the Japanese word 家.

(martial arts) A person who is skilled in taekwondo; a practitioner of taekwondo.


Cup Final

(England and Wales, soccer) The last match in the Football Association Challenge Cup competition.


T-bar

(skiing) A type of ski lift where skiers/snowboarders are dragged up the ski run while they slide along on their skis/snowboards on the slope. They hang onto a T-shaped bar, a crossbar handle and a lead shaft linking to the drive cable.


six-pointer

Sammy Lee has gone from Bolton and Fulham's Lawrie Sanchez is talking about six-pointers.

2007, Stuart Barnes, Sanchez's six-pointer stalemate, The Guardian

Manuel Pellegrini believes Arsenal are still in the title race but sees Saturday's clash as a six-pointer that could allow his side to open up a 12-point gap on Arsene Wenger's side.

2014, Arsenal match is a six-pointer, insists Pellegrini, ESPN

(soccer) A match between two teams on a similar number of points (in a league using the three points for a win system), such that the difference between a side winning and losing the match is a six-point swing relative to their opponents.


baton sinister

(heraldry) A kind of bend sinister, in which a narrow strip extends from the lower left to the upper right of the shield in a coat of arms but does not extend to the edges of the shield


bar sinister

en-noun

bar sinister (usually uncountable, plural bars sinister)

"A king's son, though with the bar sinister on his shield, is at least a match for this marmoset of a marquis."

1825, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 24, in The Talisman:

At any rate no bar sinister appeared on the imperial escutcheon.

1906, Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 1, in Sir John Constantine:

They were descended from the Earls of Halifax and Scarbrough but, as the bar sinister in the Savile coat of arms suggests, illegitimately.

2001 May 7, “Obituary: Henry Lumley-Savile”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2014-04-04:

(heraldry, considered nonstandard) A bend sinister or baton sinister in a coat of arms.


rerack

en-verb

rerack (third-person singular simple present reracks, present participle reracking, simple past and past participle reracked)

reracks (present singular third-person)
reracking (participle present)
reracked (participle past)
reracked (past)

(transitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To rack (the balls) again, as when preparing for a new game.


rerack

(snooker) An instance of reracking the balls to restart a frame.


counterpotent

(heraldry) A fur differing from potent in the arrangement of the patches: the T shapes are alternatingly upright and inverted, such that the broad side of each T touches the broad sides of the adjacent row's like-colored T.


cross bottony

(heraldry) A cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.


body blow

He led at Berks's head, as he came rushing in, and missed him, receiving a severe body blow in return.

1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 11, in Rodney Stone:

A severely injurious or damaging physical strike or impact.

(boxing) A hard punch struck to the torso.


aylet

(heraldry) A black bird with red feet and beak.


sejant rampant

FOLEY, Baron, (Foley), a lion, sejant, rampant, or, between paws an escutcheon, charged with the family arms. Ut prosim. Pl. 22, cr. 13. FOLEY, Surr., a lion, rampant, ar., holding the same. Pl. 67, cr. 5. […] MACPHERSON, a grey cat, sejant, rampant. Touch not the cat bot the glove.

1860, James Fairbairn, Fairbairns Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland: Text, pages 186, 314:

(3.) 1810. Obverse; a lion, sejant-rampant, facing left, holding a large key with his paws; inscription, PAYABLE AT ROBERT KEELING & SONS, GIBRALTAR. Reverse; similar to first reverse, but the key is omitted, and the date is very large[…]

1881, The Coin Collector's Journal, page 21:

A Scottish Lion sejant usually has his fore paws raised in the air, and in English terms of blazon would be described as "Sejant erect" or "Sejant rampant."

1914, Charles Boutell, The Handbook to English Heraldry, page 86:

(heraldry) Sitting with one or especially both of its forefeet lifted up.


no-doubter

(baseball slang) a certain home run; a home run about which there is no doubt.


parting sand

(metalworking) Dry, non-adhesive sand sprinkled upon the partings of a mould to facilitate the separation.


stampeder

(Canadian football) A team member for the Canadian Football League's Calgary Stampeders. (Rendered with a capital 'S' as Stampeder.)


gathering board

en-noun

gathering board (plural gathering boards)

To the rear of the machine is attached a gathering board on a horizontal line with a pivot in the roller about midway between the axis and top

1874, “United States Patent Office”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office:

(bookbinding) A table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book.


kettle stitch

(bookbinding) The stitch made in sewing at the head and tail of a book.


crockard

From Middle English crocard, from Anglo-Norman crocard/Old French crokard, of uncertain origin. Possibilities include:
* that it is from croc (“hook”), from a Scandinavian language (compare Old Norse krókr (“hook”)) + -ard.
* that it is related to croquier (“break in pieces”).
* that it is a diminutive of Middle English crok (“a crock, a potsherd”).

der

(historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe as a debased counterfeit copy of the sterling silver penny of King Edward I, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.


Mr. Irrelevant

(sports) The person who is picked last in a professional sports draft.


round dance

Coordinate term: circle dance

(dance) A dance for couples with a whirling or revolving motion, such as the waltz or polka.

pyörivä tanssi

dance for couples with a revolving motion


core print

(metalworking) A projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mould, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core.


lady paramount

en-noun

lady paramount (plural ladies paramount)

(archery) The lady who achieves the best score in archery.


mill bar

(ironworking) A rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill.


back the field

en-verb

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

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

(horse racing) To bet against a particular horse or horses, that some one of all the other horses, collectively designated "the field", will win.


bridle wrist

(equestrianism) The wrist of the left hand, in which a horseback rider holds the bridle.


escutcheon of pretence

en-noun

escutcheon of pretence (plural escutcheons of pretence)

(heraldry, UK) An escutcheon used to display the arms of the bearer's wife; not commonly used unless she is an heiress.


Mackie line

Named after Alexander Mackie, 19th-century British scientist.

(photography) An adjacency or border effect created during development, at the border between areas of high and low densities.


tiger cat

(Canadian football) A member of the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats (rendered as Tiger-Cat).


goal average

(sports) The ratio of the numbers of goals scored for and against a team in a series of matches, sometimes used in deciding the team’s position in a table.


golden number

(chronology) A number showing the year of the lunar or Metonic cycle. It is reckoned from 1 to 19, and is so called from having formerly been written in the calendar in gold.


one and out

(sports) a type of elimination playoff series that is a single-game series, to decide who wins the playoff round


ERS

(sports, automotive) Acronym of energy recovery system: an electric generation, storage, and propulsion system used in Formula One, which generates electricity by scavenging excess power and energy, stores energy in batteries, and boosts acceleration with electric motors assisting the gasoline engine.


roval

(slang, motor racing) A motor racecourse composed of a road course section and a portion of a banked oval track.


hash mark

(ice hockey) One of the parallel lines on either side of the face-off circles.


leg before

Leg before wicket
leg before wicket#English

(cricket, colloquial) Leg before wicket.


garbage time

I play for two minutes of garbage time at the end of a blowout? Is that all the time I'm going to see anymore?

1991, Kathleen Warnock, To the Top, page 16:

It was garbage time, really, but it was a chance to get Corey some playing time, and Pedersen was out of pitchers anyway.

2012, Don Winslow, The Gentlemen's Hour: A Novel, page 92:

I usually just got in during garbage time, which there was a lot of that year as we rolled to another state championship.

2014, Jim Farrell, Kiss Me, Kate and Other Stories, page 199:

(sports) The period at the end of a timed sporting event that has become a blowout when the outcome of the game has already been decided, and the coaches of one or both teams will often decide to replace their best players with substitutes.


in blood

If we be English deer, be then in blood:
Not rascal-like, to fall down with a pinch.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

(archaic, hunting) In a state of perfect health and vigour.


West Coast offense

West Coast offense (plural West Coast offenses)

(American football) An offense that places a greater emphasis on passing than on running.


banking pin

(horology) A pin against which a lever strikes, to limit its motion.


self-arrest

self-arrest (countable and uncountable, plural self-arrests)

(climbing) Any of various mountaineering maneuvers in which a climber who has fallen and is sliding down a slope halts the slide without recourse to a rope or other belay system.


Knickerbockers

National Basketball Association
National Basketball Association

(basketball, uncommon) The formal name of the New York Knicks, a team in the National Basketball Association

(baseball, historical) A short-lived 19th-century baseball team in New York


Knickerbocker

A History of New York
Diedrich Knickerbocker
Knickerbocker
Washington Irving

From Diedrich Knickerbocker, the pseudonym adopted by Washington Irving for his 1809 A History of New York, probably for the Knickerbackers of Schaghticoke, New York, descended from the Dutch immigrant Harmen Jansen van Bommel(l), who went variously by the names van Wy(y)e, van Wyekycback(e), Kinnekerbacker, Knickelbacker, Knickerbacker, Kinckerbacker, Nyckbacker, and Kynckbacker. The surname is of uncertain etymology, being variously explained as a corruption of Wyekycback, Dutch knacker (“cracker”) + German Bäcker, Dutch bakker (“baker”), or Dutch knicker (“marble (toy)”) + German Bäcker, Dutch bakker.

(basketball, uncommon) A player for the New York Knicks

(baseball, historical) A player for the New York Knickerbockers


Original Six

(ice hockey) The six oldest National Hockey League franchises still in existence (Blackhawks, Bruins, Canadiens, Maple Leafs, Rangers and Red Wings)


redpoint

en-verb

redpoint (third-person singular simple present redpoints, present participle redpointing, simple past and past participle redpointed)

redpoints (present singular third-person)
redpointing (participle present)
redpointed (participle past)
redpointed (past)

From red + point, as a calque of German Rotpunkt, coined by Kurt Albert in the mid-1970s at Frankenjura. He would paint a red X on a fixed pin that he could avoid using for a foothold or handhold.

(climbing, transitive) To free-climb (a route), while lead climbing, after having practiced the route beforehand.


misstrike

How much should an odd or unusual coin vary from the ordinary run to merit recognition as a misstrike or genuine accidental variety? […] Although die breaks are not considered by many as true oddities, other collectors are inclined to include them as freaks or errors belonging to the misstrike family.

1974, Brad Mills, chapter 16, in The Official Guide to Coin Collecting, New York: House of Collectibles, page 112:

(numismatics) A coin or medal with an irregularity, defect or error.


hardflip

(skateboarding) A trick that combines a frontside pop shuvit with a kickflip.


airwalk

(skateboarding) A trick in which the skater holds the board and kicks out both feet while in the air.


varial

(skateboarding) An aerial move during which the skater rotates the board.


no comply

en-noun

no comply (plural no complys or no complies)

no complys (plural)
no complies (plural)

(skateboarding) A trick in which the skater plants the front foot and pops the board using only the back foot.


powder hound

(skiing, slang) A skier who favours powdery snow.


make a book

en-verb

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

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

it must be acknowledged that it is impossible to make a book on any important race without the security of Play or Pay

1866, Henry John Rous, On the Laws and Practice of Horse Racing:

(horseracing, archaic) To lay bets (recorded in a pocketbook) against the success of every horse, so that the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and loses only on the winning horse or horses.


wild-card

(sports, card games) Alternative form of wild card


inwicking

(curling) The act of making a stone strike at an angle on the inner side of another.


outwicking

(curling) The act of making a stone strike at an angle on the outer side of another.


parade lap

(motor racing) A lap before a race begins, in which the drivers go relatively slowly around the track to warm up their tyres and ensure that conditions are safe.


preturn

(skiing) The movement that leads into a turn.


serve and volley

(tennis) A tactic where a player serves and immediately moves towards the net in an attempt to hit a volley.


serve and volley

serve and volley (third-person singular simple present serves and volleys, present participle serving and volleying, simple past and past participle served and volleyed)

serves and volleys (present singular third-person)
serving and volleying (participle present)
served and volleyed (participle past)
served and volleyed (past)


big bat

(baseball, colloquial) A player who specializes in hitting home runs.


penalty mark

(soccer) a small white spot, painted on the grass, twelve yards in front of the centre of the goal line, from which all penalty kicks are taken


spring hook

(fishing) An angler's snap-hook or spear-hook.


superfinal

(sports) A deciding match in a situation in which a final takes the form of a group of matches


how's that

(cricket) Used to make an appeal to the umpire as to whether the batsman is out or not


out ground

Out ground cricket these days is not particularly fashionable for counties…

2006, Edward Craig, Out of town but not out of favour, Cricinfo

I love playing at out grounds because there is always a festival feel about the ground and they always have endearing, if not quirky, characteristics.

2011, Luke Sutton, Luke at county cricket: That festival feel at Chesterfield and Dhoni's hair-raiser, Daily Mail

His best performance came at another out ground, St George's Road in Harrogate.

2013, Andrew Glover, Remembering Yorkshire County Cricket Club's out grounds, BBC:

(cricket) A ground other than a team's home ground, used for occasional matches.


push out

(billiards) In nine ball pool, an optional shot after a legal break shot where a player is allowed to hit any ball first, or not any, as well as not hit a rail, and the opponent can choose who shoots the next shot.


in play

The ball is in play for an average of just seven minutes out of a sixty-minute game.

(sports) Available to be played according to the rules of the game in question; within the boundaries of the pitch etc.


autoexposure

(photography) automatic selection of exposure settings


magicube

Blend of magic + cube, originally a trademark.

(photography) A form of flashcube not requiring electrical power.


flashbar

(photography) A kind of flash unit for a camera, in the form of a horizontal bar.


flipflash

From flip + flash, originally a trademark.

(photography) A kind of flash unit for a camera, providing a certain number of flashes before needing to be flipped over and reinserted to use the remainder.


row Z

Victoria Park's diminutive stands may preclude launching the ball into Row Z, but Row A would have sufficed as Hartlepool's otherwise dependable defender Chris Westwood looked to clear his lines.

2002, Jason Mellor, “Hartlepool hopes go west after late slip-up”, in The Guardian:

1446: Bobby Zamora smashes a volley into row Z, which is very much appreciated by the West Ham fans.

2010, Caroline Cheese, “Premier League as it happened”, in BBC Sport:

Sturridge’s curling strike looked dull in comparison to this wonder throw, with the expertly folded flyer gliding from row z onto the pitch and straight into the Peruvian’s face, as the crowd at the Home of Football erupted.

2014, "Direct hit! Peru star hit by England fans' paper plane after INSANE row z throw", talkSPORT

(soccer, humorous) The back row or rows of the stands.


lower order

(cricket) The batsmen, constituting the tail, who bat last - roughly in positions 8 to 11.


nervous nineties

I have never found anything particularly significant in the term nervous nineties for I firmly believe that a batsman should treat every ball on its merits, be his score 9 or 90.

Watson nearly fell again in the nervous nineties when Bresnan took an overhead catch at long off when the all-rounder was on 90 but the fieldsman tumbled over the rope and a six was declared.

2013, Chris Barrett, “Shane Watson belts brutal century as George Bailey sets record against James Anderson”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

(cricket) The set of individual scores between 90 and 99, when a batsman may play badly due to feeling pressure to convert the score into a century.


long game

[T]he Seahawks held Newton to 119 passing yards, as the Panthers kept mainly to the ground and Seattle's secondary shut down the long game.

2013 September 8, “What we saw: Seahawks 12, at Panthers 7”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2014-07-11:

(American football) The aspect of the game in which the strategy is to advance downfield by throwing the ball to a receiving player; the passing game.

“[E]verybody thinks when the wind blows it affects the long game the most, but it doesn’t,” Westwood said. “It tends to affect the putting most.”

2010 July 18, Christopher Clarey, “Another Second for Golf’s Latest Near-Miss Man”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-07-11:

(golf) The portion of the game, played with driver clubs, in which the ball is advanced down the fairway to the putting green.


send someone to the showers

send someone to the showers (third-person singular simple present sends someone to the showers, present participle sending someone to the showers, simple past and past participle sent someone to the showers)

sends someone to the showers (present singular third-person)
sending someone to the showers (participle present)
sent someone to the showers (participle past)
sent someone to the showers (past)

[H]e was able to pitch out of trouble until the eighth, when a single by LF Randy Winn and double by 2B Bret Boone sent him to the showers.

2004 September 29, “Mariners game at a glance”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2014-07-08:

The umpires’ ruling precipitated a wild protest […]and three straight run-scoring hits off Pelfrey that sent him to the showers after a six-run inning.

2010 July 5, Mark Viera, “Reds 8, Mets 6: Pelfrey Comes Undone After a Reversed Call”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-07-08:

Gerrard was sent to the showers 10 minutes into the second half, replaced by his Liverpool team-mate Jordan Henderson.

2013 November 20, Kevin Garside, “England 0 Germany 1”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2014-07-08:

Orr, in the first row behind the photographers, said something and Smart stepped to him and pushed him with both hands. […]Sending Smart to the showers—or instructing arena security to eject the fan—would have been a move in the name of safety.

2014 February 9, Roger Rubin, “Marcus Smart, Texas Tech fan shove fiasco handled poorly”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 2014-07-08:

(idiomatic, sports) To remove a player from a particular team competition before the conclusion of the event, especially because that player's contribution on this occasion has been below his or her expected level of performance.


sport climbing

(sports) A sport developed from rock climbing. A style of climbing in which the protection is in the form of permanently fixed bolts.


dry plate

(photography) A glass plate having a dry coating sensitive to light, upon which photographic negatives or pictures can be made, without moistening.


hyah

(martial arts) a vocalisation used when performing a technique or striking a blow


give someone line

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

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

Give him LINE, boy (as the trout rushed down into the shallows); into the water, boy! the line's nearly run out; it's nowhere up to your knees. Watch him! draw the line up; gently! give him line; give him line—thought so! —I feared so, ' as the line, becoming entangled from drawing it up, snapped, and the fish dashed on blindly into the shallows and stranded.

(fishing) To unreel more fishing line so that a hooked fish has more freedom to tire itself out.


yellow Sally

en-noun

yellow Sally (plural yellow Sallys or yellow Sallies)

yellow Sallys (plural)
yellow Sallies (plural)

(fishing) A greenish or yellowish European stonefly of the family Chloroperlidae.


the handbags come out

Coined 2004, circa March 2nd, by Jeremy St. Louis on the radio show Fox Sports World Report. From women hitting each other with handbags during a catfight; compare earlier handbags, handbags at dawn.

"I'm ready to take the blame for all the problems of English football, if that is what he wants."
The handbags come out early doors when Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger responds to Ferguson's dig about the Gunners' foreign contingent.

2008, Chris Charles, BBC Sport, 12 May 2008, “Premier League quotes of the season”

The handbags have come out after a diplomatic argument between Israel and Brazil got, well, very personal.

2014, Oliver Wheaton, Metro, 26 Jul 2014, “Handbags: Israel has dig at Brazil’s 7-1 World Cup defeat after diplomatic row over Gaza bombing”

(UK, idiomatic, soccer, rare) A row intensifies; a dispute becomes heated.


lap of honour

(sports, UK) A victory lap (celebratory extra lap).


one-horse race

Since riding Harry Payne Whitney's Whiskery to victory in the Kentucky Derby, Jockey Linus ("Pony") McAtee has twice broken into the news in unconventional fashion. A fortnight ago, he won a one-horse race ("walkover") at Belmont Park, N. Y.

1927 June 13, “Sport: Again, McAtee”, in Time, retrieved 2014-07-26:

Sinister Minister . . . kept extending his lead and turned the stretch run into a one-horse race.

2006 April 16, Bill Finley, “Sinister Minister Joins Baffert's Derby Stable”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-07-26:

(horse racing, informal) A horse race in which a single horse takes such a considerable lead that the other horses are no longer contenders to win.


commentator's curse

(sports, humorous) The supposed propensity of a player to blunder after having their talents pointed out by the commentator.


LISS

(exercise) Initialism of low-intensity steady state: a form of exercise that uses prolonged periods of effort at a steady pace, such as jogging.


HIIT

Perhaps I would struggle to do a HIIT session.

2021, Dr Philippa Kaye, Doctors Get Cancer Too, Vie Books, page 151:

HIIT’s specific origins are uncertain; some say it dates back to at least the early 1900s and Finnish Olympic runners who would use alternating short bursts of intensity with brief bouts of recovery to bolster their overall speed.

2023 March 15, Amanda Loudin, “A 19-Minute HIIT Workout for Beginners”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

interval training
interval training#English

(exercise) Initialism of high-intensity interval training: a form of exercise based on short bursts of intense effort, such as sprinting.

high-intensity interval training

entraînement fractionné de haute intensité


deuce court

(tennis) The receiver's right-side service box, or the opponent's left for the server, being the receiving side for a deuce point.


forearm smash

(wrestling) A charge at the opponent followed by a strike in the chest or face with a forearm to force them back and down to the mat.


forecaddie

(golf) A caddie who does not carry clubs, but locates balls and gets groups of players to move around the course.


forecaddie

en-verb

forecaddie (third-person singular simple present forecaddies, present participle forecaddying, simple past and past participle forecaddied)

forecaddies (present singular third-person)
forecaddying (participle present)
forecaddied (participle past)
forecaddied (past)

(golf, intransitive) To act as a forecaddie.


circle changeup

en-noun

circle changeup (plural circle changeups)

(baseball) A pitch thrown with a grip where the pitcher makes a circle with the index finger, holding the thumb at the bottom of the ball parallel to the middle finger and holding the ball far out in the hand.


rockover

(climbing) A maneuver that involves rocking the body over onto one foot in a foothold, to get balance.


holdless

(climbing) Without holds (footholds and handholds)


crashmat

(climbing) A protective foam pad placed on the ground, used as protection in case of falling from the wall.


lay back

en-verb

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

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

The ball ran loose to Sheringham and whereas less experienced players might have tried to score from a difficult angle he laid it back to Benayoun, whose shot was blocked by Curtis Davies.

2005 November 7, David Lacey, “Sheringham's veteran vision shows up the big problem with West Brom”, in The Guardian:

(soccer, transitive) To make a short backward pass to a teammate in an attacking position.


Panenka

Named after Antonín Panenka, a Czech football player who scored a softly-struck chipped penalty kick down the middle of the goal to win the penalty shootout in the UEFA Euro 1976 Final

Amazingly, in the most important football competition in the world, he had scored a penalty kick in the most risky and theatrical way possible, with what is called a panenka, after Antonín Panenka, a Czech footballer who in 1976 scored a vital penalty kick by chipping the ball over the goalkeeper into the center of the net.

2010, Laurent Dubois, Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France:

Up stepped Pirlo, who coolly took a Panenka as Hart dived to his right.

2015, Ben Lyttleton, Twelve Yards: The Art and Psychology of the Perfect Penalty Kick:

Best used for penalties that are scored in a tidy, unfussy manner – no impudent Panenkas or short runups welcome here, thanks.

2015, Adam Hurrey, Football Clichés: Decoding the Oddball Phrases, Colorful Gestures, and Unwritten Rules of Soccer Across the Pond:

(soccer) A softly-struck chipped penalty kick into the middle of the goal.


get open

get open (third-person singular simple present gets open, present participle getting open, simple past got open, past participle (UK) got open or (US) gotten open)

gets open (present singular third-person)
getting open (participle present)
got open (past)
got open (UK participle past)
gotten open (US participle past)

First, players should learn how to get open to receive the ball; then they need to master basic one-on-one moves with the ball.

2009, National Basketball Coaches Association, NBA Coaches Playbook: Techniques, Tactics, and Teaching Points, page 19:

The quarterback hikes the ball, and it's the receiver's job to run around and get open until the ball comes his way.

2010, Jim Dougherty, Brandon Castel, Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Football, page 50:

To get open on offense, you should cut to an open area or to the ball.

2013, Don Zimmerman, Peter England, Men's Lacrosse, page 125:

(sports) Of a player in a team sport, to evade defenders and thereby create a gap allowing another player to pass the ball to that player.


osotogari

(judo) A throw in which (right-handed version) tori steps next to uke with his left leg and reaps uke's right leg (at the back of the thigh) with his right leg.