stick the landing

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Juve

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


Young Lions

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


line scan

(photography) A camera that produces such images.


finger fan

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

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

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

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


discaire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


photoemulsion

photographic emulsion
photographic emulsion


photographic emulsion

en-noun

photographic emulsion (plural photographic emulsions)

(photography) A colloid, containing light-sensitive material, that is coated onto a length of film for use in predigital photography


TPR

TPR (countable and uncountable, plural TPRs)

total player rating
total player rating#English

(baseball) Initialism of total player rating.


hit the board

en-verb

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

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

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


on the muscle

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

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

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

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

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


AVG

(baseball) Abbreviation of batting average.


shakehand

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


cleché

Argent, a cross clechée sable — Sir Thomas BANASTER, K.G., ob. 2° Ric. II. (as depicted upon his stall-plate at Windsor, elsewhere blazoned, Argent, a cross patty pointed sable).
Or, on a mount between two lesser ones vert a lamb sable, holding with the dexter forefoot a banner ermine charged with a cross clechée gules—GROSE, Surrey (1756).

1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 162:

[…] and of a cross cleché voided and pometté as in the arms of Cawston (Fig. 162).

1904, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopaedia of Armory, London: T.C.; & E.C. Jack, page 86:

Cross OF TOULOUSE (cross clechy, voided and botonny)

(10) — patee : cross clechy, i.e. with the ends of the arms pointed, […]

1994, L. A. J. R. Houwen, The Deidis of Armorie: A Heraldic Treatise and Bestiary, page 213:

(heraldry) Having ends which flare out (like a cross patté) before tapering back to a point (urdé).

[…] our miniatures of c. 1375 or after, namely, the Christ Enthroned of the Fitzwarin Psalter. The background 'prints' formed in the interspaces crosses clechy (i.e. of mascles). This point is interesting if it is considered in relation to the mascles[…]

1955, Ernest William Tristram, English Wall Painting of the Fourteenth Century, page 44:

Cross cléchée (voided Greek cross formed of four sans-serif L's by closing ends. Three roundels (2 + 1) end each arm. Lys in each angle. PIECE-DE-XXX (pellet, on Lyon coins; engraver's différent, on Metz) DENIERS- Individual punches for all elements; dentilated borders.

1976, Eric P. Newman, Studies on Money in Early America, page 54:

(heraldry) Charged with another bearing of the same figure and of the colour of the field so that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; voided.


teebox

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


pusher-thruster

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


scioptic ball

(photography, chiefly historical) a universal joint allowing an optical instrument mounted on a ball to be swiveled to point anywhere in a wide arc


lymphad

(heraldry) A single-masted ship propelled by oars, usually indicating a Scottish title associated with islands.


sepurture

Obscure. Early uses are in the phrase in sepurture, suggesting it might have originated as a noun ending in -ure; compare the heraldic use of overture, overt.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:sepurture.

(heraldry) Of a bird's wings: raised above the back and opened.


camera angle

(photography) The viewpoint from which something is photographed or filmed.


snap-volley

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

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

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


toe drag

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

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


toe drag

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

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


butcher boy

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

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

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


flymph

(fishing) In fly fishing, a lure imitating an insect that is not yet a fly but no longer a nymph.


second yellow card

en-noun

second yellow card (plural second yellow cards)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


nothing but net

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-nothing but net.wav

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


-cross

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


luminography

(photography) A form of photography that, instead of using a camera, exposes a photosensitive material to light that is modified by an intervening object


luminogram

(photography) An image produced by luminography


portholing

(photography) A circular vignette-like defect where the image fades at the borders.


muschetor

From Middle French mouscheture, from Latin musca (“a fly”).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:muschetor.

(heraldry) A black spot like an ermine spot, but without its three specks.


double off

en-verb

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

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

The fielder doubled the runner off for the second out.

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


squidding

From squid + -ing. From pulsating like a squid (“cephalopod”).

(parachuting) An improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth. The action of "to squid".


Three Lions

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

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

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

(soccer) The England national football team.


tag out

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

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

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


hare's ear

From Middle English harys eere, haris heere, hares eres, equivalent to hare's + ear.

(fishing) A traditional artificial fly imitating an aquatic insect larva, used in fly fishing.


yump

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

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

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

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


ski-thru

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(skiing, informal) Alternative spelling of ski-through


ski-thru

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

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

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

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


video assistant referee

en-noun

video assistant referee (plural video assistant referees)

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


makeup call

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


hors categorie

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


wicket taker

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


puntless

en-adj

puntless (comparative more puntless, superlative most puntless)

more puntless (comparative)
most puntless (superlative)

That was the first puntless game in NFL playoff history.


backstraightaway

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


plate number coil

en-noun

plate number coil (plural plate number coils)

We have developed other philatelic interests over the years so that it isn't important to us to have every new issue. Or, as Dave Lee suggested in another post, we work a specialty within modern issues such as plate number coils, or transportation issues, etc.

1997 June 18, WJFIELDS [username], “Re: Why collect new U.S.?”, in rec.collecting.stamps (Usenet):

(philately) A United States postage stamp with the number of the printing plate or plates printed on it.


plate block

I gave up plate blocks long ago, but still obtain PNC's - but only one of each issue and without regard to the particular number.

1997 June 18, R Sumner, “Re: Why collect new U.S.?”, in rec.collecting.stamps (Usenet):

(philately) A block of stamps from the edge of the sheet which shows the plate from which the stamps were printed.


matchweek

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


counterpotenty

From counterpotent + -y or counter- + potenty.

(heraldry) Having an outline or placement like that of the fur counterpotent.


potenty

(heraldry) Having an outline or placement like that of a succession of crutch or T shapes like the fur potent (noun).


ringpost

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

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


outbrake oneself

en-verb

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

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

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


outbrake

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

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

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

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

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

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


butterfly kick

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


dolphin kick

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


AAMS

American Air Mail Society
w:American Air Mail Society

(US, philately) Initialism of American Air Mail Society.


rim out

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

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

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


time violation

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


forced error

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


American doubles

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


serve-and-volleyer

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


all-courter

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


singles stick

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


wood shot

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


doubles net

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


singles net

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


point penalty

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


chair umpire

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


double break point

en-noun

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

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


Canadian doubles

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


Australian doubles

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


four-belt

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


smack out

en-verb

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

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

He smacked out a triple.

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


pitboard

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

1998 January 5, Nick Ienatsch, “Back in the Fray”, in Cycle World Magazine, page 118:

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

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

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


free agency

en-noun

free agency (countable and uncountable, plural free agencies)

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

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

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

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

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

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


bank shot

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

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


rap down

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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


ab off

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

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

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

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

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

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


autoluminography

(photography) The production of an image by placing a light-emitting object in direct contact with photographic film


take gas

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

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

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

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

He really took gas on that one.

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

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


assault at arms

en-noun

assault at arms (plural assaults at arms)

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


walk in

en-verb

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

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

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


amphiptere

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “amphi-”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).

af

<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">amphi-</i>

Azure, an amphiptere or, rising between two mountains argent, are the arms of Camoens, the Portuguese poet.

1969, John Vinycomb, Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:

(heraldry, fantasy) A type of winged serpent, with two bat-like wings and typically with no other limbs.


demilion

(heraldry) The upper or front half of a lion.


inwick

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


play the man and not the ball

en-verb

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

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

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


play the ball and not the man

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

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

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


countercompony

From French contre-componé; equivalent to counter- + compony.

(heraldry) Consisting of a checkerboard of two rows of squares in alternating tinctures. (Contrast chequy.)


cornerbacking

(sports) The playing of the cornerback position.


laptime

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


spinorama

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

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


Finlaycolor

From Finlay + color; devised by Englishman Clare L. Finlay.

The most exciting way of getting instant color was by a process called Finlaycolor, in which, in effect, three color-separation negatives were taken simultaneously by using a grid ruled with microscopic red, green and violet lines. One then made a positive, a lantern slide from this negative, and brought it into exact alignment with the grid. This was tricky, delicate, but when one had them in perfect register, the previously black-and-white slide would burst into full color.

2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood:

(photography, historical) An early additive colour photography process that could produce a picture in natural colour with a single exposure.


bore draw

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

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

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

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

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


score draw

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

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

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


flood the zone

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


orled

The arms of the Valence family were orled with martlets

(heraldry) Furnished with an orle (or inner border), either a simple border, or a repeated closed repetition of a symbol.


outswinging

en-adj

outswinging (comparative more outswinging, superlative most outswinging)

more outswinging (comparative)
most outswinging (superlative)

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


scary sharp

(woodworking) Of tools: sharpened with sandpaper instead of the conventional oilstone or waterstone, etc.


die plate

(metalworking) A type of die for cutting screw threads on male fasteners; it is arranged in the form of a plate of tool steel with a graduated series of holes, each being the die opening for a certain size of screw. A predecessor of today's tap and die sets, it is now considered an antique type of tool, no longer in common use but still sometimes desirable as a collectible among tool collectors.


track meet

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


switch codes

en-verb

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

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

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


Torricellian chamber

en-noun

Torricellian chamber (plural Torricellian chambers)

atmospheric pressure
atmospheric pressure

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


setup man

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


line to gain

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


clean bulk

clean bulk (countable and uncountable, plural clean bulks)

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


dirty bulk

dirty bulk (countable and uncountable, plural dirty bulks)

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

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


best and fairest

best and fairest (plural best and fairests)

Australian rules football
Australian rules football

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


York round

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


sans nombre

Sixth, de la Plaunche, Argent, a lion rampant, Sable, crowned, Or, round him billets sans nombre, Sable.

1812, Arthur Collins, Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical, page 376:

Charles VI. restored to the scutcheon of France the three lilies, first borne by Clovis; the race of Pepin having borne the azure field, semée des fleurs de lys sans nombre, which were also borne by the House of Capet down to 1389.

1877, University magazine, The Dublin university magazine, page 442:

[...] ancient inheritance of his father's family, which were azure, eight lioncels (or perhaps lioncels sans nombre) or.

1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 380:

Below the rose are the arms of Poitou, golden towers on red, and the old arms of France, azure with fleurs-de-lis sans nombre. Opposite to this on the south side is a small rose with the later shield of France, with only three[…]

1914, Arthur J. de Havilland Bushnell, Storied Windows: A Traveller's Introduction to the Study of Old Church Glass, from the Twelfth Century to the Renaissance, Especially in France, page 188:

The Northamptonshire Washingtons, or one branch of them, bore the following arms: "Paly (sans nombre) argent and gules with three mullets of the first on a chief azure." Another branch of the family bore : Argent with two bars[…]

1914, Robert Hudson George, A History of the Herefordshire Borderland, page 175:

Quarterly, bendy sans nombre or and gules, and likewise sinisterways of the second and first, on a pale sable between two Roman fasces in fess proper, a heart argent , charged with three bendlets purpure, and in chief an annulet[…]

1921, The Ecclesiastical Review, page 463:

(heraldry) Repeated (as a charge like a billet or a division like paly) many times, covering the field with no set number (of the thing).


American round

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


butt wink

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


freespool

en-verb

freespool (third-person singular simple present freespools, present participle freespooling, simple past and past participle freespooled)

freespools (present singular third-person)
freespooling (participle present)
freespooled (participle past)
freespooled (past)

(transitive, intransitive, fishing) To release the fishing line freely from its spool, not under tension.


champaine

French champagne (“base of a coat of arms”).

uder

Purpure, a bend champaine argent—ARCHBY.
Argent, a pale champaine vert—BOWMAN.
Bendy of six champaine purple and argent—BOWBRIDGE.
Gyronny of four champaine or, enarched argent and gules—BRAUNECK.

1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 99:

(heraldry) Curved (concave), enarched, or sometimes varriated; especially in the phrase point champaine, an abatement consisting of a curved (or sometimes horizontal) stain the bottom of the shield.


champaine

3. Two rows of Vair, on a champagne gules an open crown or (both 2 and 3 for CRONBERG).

1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 489:

(heraldry) Alternative form of champagne (“(ordinary occupying) the base of the shield”)


counter-canter

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

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

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

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

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

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

(dressage) To canter in a circle, leading with the leg opposite to the direction of the canter.


runstand

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


Nations League

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


Birkie

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


Phillie

(baseball) A player that plays for the Philadelphia Phillies


focusing cloth

(photography, historical) A cloth thrown over a camera (and the operator's head and shoulders) to exclude all light except that which comes through the lens.


upkick

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

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


bench-clearing brawl

en-noun

bench-clearing brawl (plural bench-clearing brawls)

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


charging the mound

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


spot-barred

a spot-barred game or tournament

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


satyral

From Old French satirel (“little satyr”); see satyr for more.

Two satyrals supported the arms of the lords Stawell.

1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 339:

Behind the satyral, the foliage rustled, and to Jingo's mounting astonishment, a huge brown susquat rushed into the encampment and stood beside the satyral, growling and baring his teeth at the salax king. It was Hooks, and the ghastly[…]

2011 10, Robert Louis Smith, Antiquitas Lost: The Last of the Shamalans, Medlock Publishing LLC, →ISBN:

(heraldry and fantasy) A creature with a human head and the limbs of different animals.


lens brush

(photography) a small brush used to clean dust off camera lenses.


Dilscoop

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

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


run game

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

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

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


photosimulation

(photography) A photographic image that has been computer-modified to show a not-yet existing feature


live-ball era

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


dead-ball era

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


freeblown

His aim is to encourage the use of "freeblown glass" in contemporary craft work.

Freeblown vessels are made without the assistance of molds, and are often somewhat irregular in shape and exhibit a glossy surface.

1990, Louise M. DeCesare, Archeological collections management at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, New York, page 65:

Today, our team of skilled glassmakers use the same authentic tools and techniques to produce the distinctive and highly original freeblown lead crystal glass.

2001, Victoria Pybus, Hand Made in Britain - The Visitors Guide, →ISBN, page 43:


winged T

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


fair weather fan

fair weather fan (plural fair weather fans)

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

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


crossback

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


telextender

(photography) An optical amplifier, used especially in amateur astronomy to magnify an image.


grain size

(geology, photography) The size of a grain (particle) in a sediment or emulsion


unheraldic

en-adj

unheraldic (comparative more unheraldic, superlative most unheraldic)

more unheraldic (comparative)
most unheraldic (superlative)

The crest of Walpole, as it is now borne by the family […] "A Saracen's head ducally crowned Or, with a long ca on gules, thereon a Catherine-wheel Or; [...]." [...] However, it was passed by the College of Arms, and ever since the Walpoles have been saddled with this most inartistic and unheraldic crest.

1900, The Genealogical Magazine, page 8:

(heraldry) Not heraldic; not adhering to the norms of heraldry.


cabinet card

(photography, historical) A style of photograph widely used for portraiture in the late 19th century, mounted on a card typically measuring 108 by 165 mm (4 1⁄4 by 6 1⁄2 inches).


bandwagon fan

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


Murderers' Row

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

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


murderers' row

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


ragged staff

en-noun

ragged staff (plural ragged staffs or ragged staves)

ragged staffs (plural)
ragged staves (plural)

(heraldry) A knotted stick with short stumps of branches on each side.


silver bath

(photography) A solution of silver nitrate for sensitizing collodion plates for printing.


AAFL

All American Football League
w:All American Football League

(American football) Initialism of All American Football League.


Air Coryell

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


USFL

United States Football League
w:United States Football League

(American football) Initialism of United States Football League.


ringlight

ringlight (countable and uncountable, plural ringlights)

Figures 2 and 6 are of the same specimens but photographed with a ringlight.

1960, University of Michigan. Museum of Paleontology -, Contributions - Volumes 15-16, page 128:

Until recently, ringlights have been chiefly associated with technical illustration, such as close-up photography in medicine and dentistry.

1980, David Brooks, Carl Shipman, Theodore DiSante, How to control & use photographic lighting, →ISBN, page 132:

Built-in ringlight flash provides virtually shadowless, wraparound illumination for inaccessible or elusive subjects.

1985, Eyes of Nikon: a comprehensive guide to Nikkor and Nikon series E lenses:

One of the characteristics of ringlight, when used as the only source, is its shadow. Because the light expands equally in all directions, it also throws an even shadow.

2014, Master Lighting Guide for Portrait Photographers, →ISBN, page 151:

I had created a faux-ring light, and I was able to get a very cool ringlight effect for very little money.

2014, Benny Migs, Alternative Portraiture, →ISBN, page 100:

(photography) A light source in a ring or torus shape that prevents distinct shadows.


unstrike

en-verb

unstrike (third-person singular simple present unstrikes, present participle unstriking, simple past and past participle unstruck)

unstrikes (present singular third-person)
unstriking (participle present)
unstruck (participle past)
unstruck (past)

Now I unstrike, and at my whistle heard, Upcircling skyward springs my gentle bird Condemned through many centuries to search For some true Christian whereupon to perch.

1859, Frederick William Wyon, Poems, page 92:

I wish I could as easily unstrike The strings that keep my memories in hood, And let them down the wind.

1870, James White, The King of the Commons:

Either sportsman, as they reached the marshy ground, attended to the falcon on his wrist, and began to unstrike her hood.

1876, Elizabeth Kerr Coulson, Dante and Beatrice, from 1282 to 1290, by Roxburghe Lothian:

He then stopped, turned about, and suddenly unstriking her hood, tossed her into the air with an encouraging shout.

1965, The North American Review - Volume 68, page 217:

(falconry) To loosen the strings that attach the hood on the bird's head.


super-sub

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

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


YNWA

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

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

you'll never walk alone

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


phototransparency

en-noun

phototransparency (countable and uncountable, plural phototransparencies)


circle pit

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-circle pit.wav

From circle + pit, modelled after mosh pit.

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

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

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


defish

en-verb

defish (third-person singular simple present defishes, present participle defishing, simple past and past participle defished)

defishes (present singular third-person)
defishing (participle present)
defished (participle past)
defished (past)

(photography, transitive) To process an image taken with a fisheye lens so as to remove the distortion.


upwing

Should you find no drakes or upwing insects floating on the surface and that a greater number of duns or lapwing insects are on the wing, you can fish dry with a dun fly like the natural insect you see, or fish the duns wet with two or more flies, till later on when you see drakes floating, then fish with dry fly imitations.

1921, Louis Rhead, How to Fish the Dry Fly:

The four of us — Tom Poole, Clint Lere, Peter and I — would try various upwing dry flies, including the Flame Thrower, and count and measure all of the trout caught throughout the evening.

1993, Gary LaFontaine, Trout Flies: Proven Patterns, page 180:

Size and color may be changed to replicate any hatch, and the wing position simulates both upwing and downwing spinners.

1993, Dick Stewart, Farrow Allen, Flies for Trout, →ISBN, page 49:

(fishing, of a fly) Holding the forewings together above the body.


underhit

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

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

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

(sports, transitive) To hit with insufficient force.


minor premiers

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


carry out one's bat

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

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

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


dragonné

(heraldry) Like a dragon in the hinder part, and a lion or other creature in the fore part.


above par

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


trife

A conceptual and phonetic blend of tripe and trifle

Trife is trife even, in a reform synagogue.

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

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

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

This life is trife!

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

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

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


trife

en-adj

trife (comparative more trife, superlative most trife)

more trife (comparative)
most trife (superlative)

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

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

My life is as trife as your favorite rap record.

This shit is trife!

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

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

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

Just get out of my crib with your trife ass!

(hip-hop, slang) Unforgiveable; reprehensible.


spark test

en-verb

spark test (third-person singular simple present spark tests, present participle spark testing, simple past and past participle spark tested)

spark tests (present singular third-person)
spark testing (participle present)
spark tested (participle past)
spark tested (past)

From spark + test.
From producing sparks to test for the character of a steel.

(metalworking) To test for the general character of a steel, when testing a piece of steel, by grinding it, producing sparks, using color of sparks to determine its general classification.


supersub

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

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


gamb

From Middle French gambe (variant of jambe) from Late Latin gamba (hoof, leg, shank). Doublet of jamb, gamba, and gam.

Vachell, Eng. a bull's gamb in pale, couped, argent. […] Vaughan of Littleton, Middlesex, a lion's gamb, or, holding a human heart, gules.

1817, Alexander Deuchar, British Crests: containing the crests and mottos of the families of Great Britain and Ireland; together with those of the principal cities; and a glossary of heraldic terms ... Embellished with nearly fourteen hundred crests, engraved by Robert Kirkwood, from original drawings, by G. Sanders, and J. Grant, page 284:

(heraldry) The leg or shank, typically of an animal, especially of a lion, on a coat of arms, crest, etc.


slide scanner

(photography) A device used to produce a digital copy of a slide.


mainshaft

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


icetime

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


TOI

en-noun

TOI (countable and uncountable, plural TOIs)

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


ski-through

Deverbal from ski through, modelled after drive-through.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


ski-through

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


full-course yellow

full-course yellow (plural full-course yellows)

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

compound

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


shin-kicking

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


spinning rod

An avid angler, she kept a collapsible spinning rod in the back of her truck in case she happened to drive past a likely-looking stream.

1840, The New Sporting Magazine, Volume 18 ("The Fly-fisher's Text Book. Or, the Science and Practice of Fly-fishing for Salmon, Trout, &c."), page 171: https://books.google.com/books?id=jPw7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA171&dq=%22spinning+rod%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwihtofHqNzfAhXmQd8KHT2VAX843gIQ6AEIXDAJ#v=onepage&q=%22spinning%20rod%22&f=false
Hook, even with snap tackle and a spinning rod, a jack of 8 or 9 lb.,--he gives a shake or two, but still you may go on, wind, wind, till he is on shore […]

1859, Isaak Walton & Charles Cotton, The Complete Angler, Routledge, Warnes and Routledge, page 236: https://books.google.com/books?id=Ng1JAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA236&dq=%22spinning+rod%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwit7f6VptzfAhVjQt8KHZ25Bjw46AIQ6AEISTAG#v=onepage&q=%22spinning%20rod%22&f=false
The pieces of the spinning-rod should be moderately stout--something between those of the trolling-rod and the larger trout fly-rod--and they should be ringed with middle-sized upright rings, and should be tolerably elastic.

(fishing) A long, flexible fishing rod with guide rings and a mounting bracket for a spinning reel.


cycle polo

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


schneid

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


CFM

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


cushion tire

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


downsweep

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


frameline

(photography) A line in the viewfinder indicating the boundary of the image that will be captured.


no-hander

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


armoured combat fighting

armored combat fighting
armored combat fighting#English

(sports) Alternative spelling of armored combat fighting


armored combat fight

en-noun

armored combat fight (plural armored combat fights)

armored combat fighting
armored combat fighting

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


armored combat fighting

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

tae kwon do

martial art and Korean armored kickboxing sport

jousting

medieval re-creation sport; and medieval knightly contest

kendo

martial art and Japanese armored sword dueling sport


armoured combat fight

armoured combat fight (plural armoured combat fights)

armored combat fight
armored combat fight#English

(sports) Alternative spelling of armored combat fight


armored combat

armored combat (countable and uncountable, plural armored combats)

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

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


letter sheet

(philately) A sheet of paper that may be folded (and often sealed) and mailed without the use of an envelope.


no-score draw

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


kaisa

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


counterthrow

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


jock sniffer

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


Big Game

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

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


biscuitry

biscuitry (countable and uncountable, plural biscuitries)

If all goes well with the lathe and the biscuitry, there will be only a little filing and scraping required to smooth the transitions around the corners.

2000, Fine Woodworking - Issues 140-146, page 81:

(woodworking, uncountable) The process of inserting biscuits (thin ovals of wood or other material) into mating slots in order to provide a gluing surface.


false summit

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

valehuippu

minor peak that appears the principal summit


face turn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


safety stop

decompression sickness
decompression sickness

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


colorcast

(photography) An undesirable tint of color affecting another color in a photograph, due to incorrect balance.


unwmk

(philately) Abbreviation of unwatermarked.


UEFAlona

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

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


siderotype

(photography) A photographic print using a pigment based on iron


stereonegative

(photography) Either of a pair of negatives used to make stereoscopic photographs


CoA

CoA (countable and uncountable, plural CoAs)

(heraldry slang, informal) Initialism of coat of arms.


stakeswinner

(horse racing) A winner of a stakes race


humetté

(heraldry) Cut short in the form of a humet, not reaching the ends of the shield (as a chevron, cross, etc).


television match official

television match official (plural television match officials)

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


stakeswinning

(horse racing) Having won a stakes race.


hark-back

(hunting) An act of hounds retracing a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.


underhook

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


underhook

en-verb

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

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

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


winter book

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


100-meter dash

en-noun

100-meter dash (plural 100-meter dashes)

(athletics) A sprint race over 100 meters.


square-pierced

For quotations using this term, see Citations:square-pierced.

(heraldry) Of a charge: perforated with a square opening so as to show the field.


fan-blast

(ironworking) The blast produced by a fan, as distinguished from that produced by a blowing-engine.


half-one

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


time thrust

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


service box

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


victor ludorum

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


half butt

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


no yards

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


major score

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


buddy breathe

en-verb

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

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

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


overager

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


Big Three

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

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

(exercise) The deadlift, squat and benchpress.

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


P-

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


rod ring

(fishing) Any of the rings along a fishing rod through which the line runs.


play club

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


dropnet

(fishing) A fishing net suspended from a boom, to be suddenly dropped on a passing shoal of fish.


large format

en-noun

large format (countable and uncountable, plural large formats)

(photography) A photographic format of 4 × 5 inches (102 × 127 mm) or larger.


medium format

medium format (countable and uncountable, plural medium formats)

(photography) A photographic format in between full-frame or 35mm (36 × 24 mm) and large format (127 × 102 mm).


japow

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


naban

(sports) A traditional form of Burmese wrestling.


banshay

Borrowed from Burmese ဗန်ရှည် (banhrany).

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


dummy half

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


stomp pad

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

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


key light

Age lines were drawn on McCarthy's face in red makeup, and when key lights with red filters were used, the lines were not visible.

2015, Don Presnell, Marty McGee, A Critical History of Television's The Twilight Zone, 1959-1964, page 57:

(photography, film, television) The most important light, used to highlight the form and dimension of the subject.


kickout

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


sell the dummy

en-verb

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

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

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


water core

(metalworking) A hollow core through which water may be passed.


ZLR

zoom-lens reflex
zoom-lens reflex#English

(photography) Initialism of zoom-lens reflex. (pertaining to the ZLR system, where a telephoto zoom lens is integrated into the camera body, which includes a reflex mirror for in-lens preview; of a camera system similar to an SLR.)


middle distance

en-noun

middle distance (plural middle distances)

The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 12:

(art, photography) The central portion of a picture in terms of depth, between the foreground and background.


nursery cannon

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

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


long-slip

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


set shot

(basketball) A shot taken without jumping.


nursery slope

(skiing) A relatively undemanding slope for novices.


multicam

(videography, Internet slang) A video of one event created using footage of different cameras.


ayrant

Related to Middle English aire, ayre, eyre (“hawk's nest”), -ant.

inh

Bygbery, [Devon,] az. an eagle, ayrant, or, armed gu.

1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry:

Az. an eagle ayrant or armed gu. BYGBERY, CO. Devon. […] Gu. an eagle ayrant or. BARDOLPH, Norfolk.

1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, pages 299–300:

Gules, an eagle ayrant or—BARDOLPH, Norfolk. / Azure, an eagle eyrant or, armed gules—BYGBERY, Devon. / Per pale or and argent, an eagle displayed perched on a ragged staff sable—PYNELL.

1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 215:


return match

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


heel turn

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

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

compound

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


five-eighth

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


magoos

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

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


corner throw

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


explosion shot

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


Wallaby

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

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

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


three-quarter time

en-noun

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

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

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


three-quarter time
three-quarter time#English

(sports) Initialism of three-quarter time.


quarter time

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

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


no-cut

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

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


spoonbait

(fishing) A spoon (type of fishing lure).


crunch game

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


inverted Jenny

inverted Jenny (plural inverted Jennies)

(philately) A 24-cent US postage stamp first issued in 1918, having the image of a Curtiss JN-4 airplane erroneously printed upside-down.


pony bottle

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


gremmie

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


gremmy

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


shackle bolt

(heraldry) A bearing representing a fetlock for hobbling a horse.


NJAC

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

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


Redblack

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


Blue Bomber

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


break one's maiden

en-verb

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

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

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


Sabbath stick

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


umpie

(sports, informal) Alternative form of umpy.


drive for show, putt for dough

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

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


captain's try

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

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

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


captain's goal

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

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

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


Whites

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


scrum feed

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


co-selector

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


reserve grader

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


reserve grade

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


pre-match

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


goalfest

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


skyrunning

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

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

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


stand on one's head

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

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

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


knock in

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

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

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

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

(snooker, transitive) To score (a break)


golden set

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


swing-back

(photography, historical) A device for adjusting the plate-holder of a camera to any desired angle.


LFL

Lingerie Football League
w:en:Lingerie Football League

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

Legends Football League
w:en:Legends Football League

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


tubeset

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


most valuable player

en-noun

most valuable player (plural most valuable players)

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


overfrank

en-verb

overfrank (third-person singular simple present overfranks, present participle overfranking, simple past and past participle overfranked)

overfranks (present singular third-person)
overfranking (participle present)
overfranked (participle past)
overfranked (past)

Why would the UNPA overfrank a piece of mail?

2001, The American Philatelist, volume 115, page 390:

(philately) To apply stamps with a higher value than the postage required to a letter.