slip in

slip in (third-person singular simple present slips in, present participle slipping in, simple past and past participle slipped in)

slips in (present singular third-person)
slipping in (participle present)
slipped in (participle past)
slipped in (past)

A minute into the second half, Hazard blasted the second goal right over Gordon's head and into his net. Soon after, Charlie Mulgrew's aimless ball out of defence fell to Dembele, who gave it to Hazard. The attacker slipped in Batshuayi in for the third.

2018 September 7, Tom English, “Scotland 0-4 Belgium”, in BBC Sport:

(soccer, transitive) To play a subtle pass into someone in a goalscoring position.


DLR

(philately) Initialism of De La Rue. (stamp and banknote printers)


whip in

en-verb

whip in (third-person singular simple present whips in, present participle whipping in, simple past and past participle whipped in)

whips in (present singular third-person)
whipping in (participle present)
whipped in (participle past)
whipped in (past)

He whipped in a dangerous cross, and Faulkner headed into the net.

(soccer, transitive) To make a quick pass into the goalmouth.


flick-on

Rovers forward Roque Santa Cruz headed against the post after a flick-on by towering defender Chris Samba.

2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC:

(soccer) A quick headed touch to pass to another player.


blood substitution

en-noun

blood substitution (plural blood substitutions)

(rugby) A temporary substitution for a visibly-bleeding player who must leave the field of play for first-aid treatment.


send on

en-verb

send on (third-person singular simple present sends on, present participle sending on, simple past and past participle sent on)

sends on (present singular third-person)
sending on (participle present)
sent on (participle past)
sent on (past)

Blackburn's reaction to Newcastle's dominance was to send on Morten Gamst Pedersen and Jason Roberts at the break but Newcastle started the half as they ended it - in the ascendancy.

(sports, transitive) To introduce (a substitute) into the game.


trade down

trade down (third-person singular simple present trades down, present participle trading down, simple past and past participle traded down)

trades down (present singular third-person)
trading down (participle present)
traded down (participle past)
traded down (past)

Do the New England Patriots ever pass on trading down?

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

(sports) To exchange a higher selection in a player draft for a lower one.


trade up

trade up (third-person singular simple present trades up, present participle trading up, simple past and past participle traded up)

trades up (present singular third-person)
trading up (participle present)
traded up (participle past)
traded up (past)

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

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

(sports) To exchange a lower selection in a player draft for a higher one.


video referee

Ireland got their second try not long before half-time with O'Leary, an injury doubt all week with a stiff back, just about getting over for a try which was confirmed by the video referee.

2011 February 13, Lyle Jackson, “Ireland 22-25 France”, in BBC:

(sports) An off-field match official who makes game decisions based on watching instant replays.


box-to-box midfielder

en-noun

box-to-box midfielder (plural box-to-box midfielders)

(soccer) a central midfielder who plays both defensively and attackingly, who runs a lot up and down the pitch.

volante mixto

a central midfielder who both defends and attacks


roundhouse kick

roundhouse kick (plural roundhouse kicks)

(martial arts) A kick in which the attacker swings his/her leg around in a semicircular motion, striking with the front of the leg or foot.


flotant

Old French flotant, (French flottant), present participle of floter (“to float”).

a banner flotant

(heraldry) Represented as flying (fluttering) or floating mid-air or in water.


underhold

(wrestling) An unfair seizing of an opponent under the arms.

(gymnastics) An underhand grip, especially while hanging from a bar.


Adurol

(photography) A chlorinated (or brominated) derivative of hydroquinone once used as a photographic developer


squib kick

(sports) A play in American football whereby the team performing the kick-off kicks the ball so that it will bounce instead of going deep downfield.


backman

Australian rules football
Australian rules football

(sports) A defender in Australian rules football.


in contention

But Chelsea, who left Didier Drogba on the bench as coach Carlo Ancelotti favoured Fernando Torres, staged a stirring fightback to move up to fourth and keep United in their sights on a night when nothing other than victory would have kept the Blues in contention.

2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC:

(sports) Contending for a title or championship.


byeline

Diouf rounded Zaluska near the byeline and crossed but Daniel Majstorovic headed away and Celtic eventually mopped up the danger.

2011 March 2, Andy Campbell, “Celtic 1 - 0 Rangers”, in BBC:


ball-playing

Irish debutant Conor Henderson - another ball-playing midfielder - probed for a gap through the back-line and the 19-year-old's deflected pass was pounced on by Tomas Rosicky, who sped to the byeline to clip a square ball through the legs of Charlie Daniels across the box.

2011 March 2, Chris Whyatt, “Arsenal 5 - 0 Leyton Orient”, in BBC:

And despite his terrific form, it was always going to be Sterling making way especially against a ball-playing team away from home when we'd have to absorb a lot of pressure.

2014, Neil Collins, Make Us Dream: A Fan's View of the 2013/14 Season, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 290:

Barcelona have recognised that a ball-playing midfielder is a more effective centre-half than a John Terry-style centre-half given they rarely encounter an attacking threat that warrants a traditional back four.

2014, anonymous author, The Secret Footballer's Guide to the Modern Game: Tips and Tactics from the Ultimate Insider, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:

(soccer) Focused on attacking and progressing down the field.


girya

Transliteration of Russian ги́ря (gírja).

transliteration

He slammed the giryas back down on the rubber-matted floor.

2008, Raffi Yessayan, Eight in the Box: A Novel of Suspense, page 145:

Kettlebells, which are Russian in origin (called girya), are believed to have been around since the early 1700s.

2011, Dave Randolph, The Ultimate Kettlebells Workbook, page 9:

Also called kettlebell sport, this is a Russian national sport in which the girya (kettlebell) is used either in single or double form to accumulate as many repetitions as possible in 10 minutes in order to compare one lifter with the next in a sporting framework.

2014, Steve Cotter, Kettlebell Training:

Soon the farmers began challenging each other to feats of strength using the girya.

2018, Mark Vella, New Anatomy for Strength & Fitness Training:

(weightlifting) A kettlebell; a weight consisting of a cast iron ball with a single handle for gripping the weight during exercise.


nothing ball

If he cannot throw a fast ball, he may be able to get by on a nothing ball (a term coined for Wes Ferrell's looping delivery, which, though it doesn't curve, is hard to hit).

1941 Franklin P. Huddle "Baseball Jargon" (April 1943) American Speech Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 103-111

two of the leading pitchers in the major leagues use the "nothing ball", a term used derisively by batters to describe change of pace deliveries.

1951 August, Paul Horowitz, “They've Got Plenty of Nothing”, in Baseball Digest, pages 21–22:

(baseball) a pitch which has neither much speed nor much spin

2010 Harry Redknapp, quoted in "Relegated Burnley produce comeback" (9 May 2010) ESPNsoccernet
I was very disappointed (with the first goal) because it was a nothing ball over the top, Brian Jensen was way out of position and should have been sweeping that up.

(sports, British) a ball which presents little attacking threat


choke up

en-verb

choke up (third-person singular simple present chokes up, present participle choking up, simple past and past participle choked up)

chokes up (present singular third-person)
choking up (participle present)
choked up (participle past)
choked up (past)

(baseball, intransitive) To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal.


wing-play

Stoke deserved their advantage and they looked to build on their lead with Etherington continuing his busy wing-play down the opposite flank.

2011 March 13, Chris Bevan, “Stoke 2 - 1 West Ham”, in BBC:

(soccer) The art of playing as a winger.


get on the end of

get<,,got,got􂀿UK􂁀:gotten􂀿US􂁀> on the end of

get on the end of (third-person singular simple present gets on the end of, present participle getting on the end of, simple past got on the end of, past participle (UK) got on the end of or (US) gotten on the end of)

gets on the end of (present singular third-person)
getting on the end of (participle present)
got on the end of (past)
got on the end of (UK participle past)
gotten on the end of (US participle past)

(idiomatic, sports, transitive) To connect with.


rule of thirds

(photography, film, visual arts) A normative rule that an image should be mentally or representationally divided in three horizontally and diagonally, and that the focus of the image should not be in the center of the resulting shape.


match day

For a player to perform, his body machinery must be continually fuelled, oiled and checked long before the first whistle. Match day strategies involving the consumption of large amounts of food deemed to have a beneficial content with regard to performance should therefore not be used as a substitute for a poor diet across the preceding days or weeks.

2001, David Griffiths, The Weekend Warrior, Reedswain, →ISBN, page 115:

The station will be adjacent to Millwall Football Club's ground and would help ease the burden of match-day crowds.

2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, page 48:

(sports) The day on which a sporting event takes place.


DTD

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

December to Dismember
w:December to Dismember

(sports, professional wrestling) Initialism of December to Dismember.


handsy

en-adj

handsy (comparative handsier, superlative handsiest)

handsier (comparative)
handsiest (superlative)

At a wiry 5 feet 9 inches and 140 pounds, with a handsy, almost ungainly swing, Pavin lacked the power and solid technique that have been the foundation of success for most of the game's elite players.

1991 May 26, Jaime Diaz, “Pavin Is Making a Strong Bid to Join Game's Elite”, in The New York Times:

(golf) Moving the hands and wrists excessively when making a stroke or swing.


ninpō

(martial arts) ninjutsu; Alternative form of ninpo


rocketer

To see a real workman knocking down rocketer after rocketer at a height which would be considered impossible by half the men who go but shooting is to witness an exhibition of skill and correct timing which can only be attained by the most assiduous practice and the quickest of eyes.

1918, J. Arthur Gibbs, A Cotswold Village:

(hunting) A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket.


quickdraw

(climbing) A set of two carabiners connected by a strap.

jatko

a set of two carabiners connected by a strap


quick off the mark

quick off the mark (comparative quicker off the mark, superlative quickest off the mark)

quicker off the mark (comparative)
quickest off the mark (superlative)

From sports races, where the mark in this case is the point from which the racers start.

(idiomatic, sports) fast to act or react


merese

Perhaps via French [Term?] (compare French mérèse (growth by cell division), mérisme (merismus, merism)), ultimately from Ancient Greek μερίζω (merízō), from μέρος (méros, “part”) + -ίζω (-ízō, “-ize”), from Proto-Hellenic *(h)méros. First English attestation in 1923 on page 44 of Glass-making in England by Harry J. Powell.

af

(glassblowing) A flat, sharp-edged button, often a disc-shaped knob, separating the stem of a drinking-glass from the foot.


soft tennis

Calque of Japanese ソフトテニス (sofuto tenisu), from English soft + tennis.

cal

(sports) A variant of tennis, developed in Japan, differing in the tennis ball used, from regular tennis (lawn tennis), having a softer rubber ball.


playoff beard

In the closing credits of the documentary, Boston players were asked to rate and rank the best playoff beards on the team.

2013 November 27, Dan Carson, “Boston's Koji Uehara Thinks Red Sox Burly Man Beards Are 'Gross'”, in Bleacher Report:

(US, Canada, sports) A beard grown by members of a sports team as a sign of unity or good luck during the postseason.


LAK

(ice hockey) Initialism of Los Angeles Kings.


widow's weeds

From (now) fossil word weeds (“garments, esp. mourning garments”), from Old English wǣd (“garment”).

(philately) a stamp bearing a portrait of Queen Victoria wearing mourning clothes


ugly finder

I tried to duck under the ball, but it was definitely an ugly finder.

1989 August 12, Mitch Williams, quotee, “There's never a dull moment with the Cubs' 'Wild Thing'”, in Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

"That ball was an ugly-finder," [Rob] Dibble said. "But I consider that good luck. No broken nose, no stitches and no black eye."

1996 March 1, Barry Rozner, quoting Rob Dibble, “Dibble survives an ugly scare”, in Daily Herald, page 5:

"The unique thing about this team though is that of the eight position players - all are either new or are playing a different position," he [Bill Matthews] said. "With something like that, you just hope the ball doesn't become an ugly-finder."

2003 February 9, Rodney Page, quoting Bill Matthews, “Tritons count on the pitching staff to deliver”, in St. Petersburg Times, page 4:

Everybody was trying to throw the ugly-finder at him, and we still couldn't find him.

2010, Jason Turbow with Michael Duca, quoting Ed Whitson, The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: the Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime, Random House, Inc., →ISBN, page 134:

(baseball, colloquial) A hard batted or thrown ball which hits or nearly hits someone, especially a line drive foul ball hit into a dugout.


submarine pitch

en-noun

submarine pitch (plural submarine pitches)

(baseball) A pitch thrown with an underarm-to-sidearm motion.


puck palace

It was easily the most spirited battle of speed and brawn offered in the Detroit puck palace this winter.

1936 December 21, Vern DeGeer, “Wings Beat Bruins 4-3”, in Windsor Daily Star, Canada, retrieved 2011-05-11, page 3:

However, a new puck palace in the Manitoba capital could eventually have a connection with Calgary hockey.

1954 March 20, Gorde Hunter, “The Neutral Zone”, in Calgary Herald, Canada, retrieved 2011-05-11, page 34:

To see the utilitarian hockey center transformed into a puck palace similar to the Minnesota Wild's home ice should bring chills to even the most staid fans.

2008 July 6, Randy Krebs, “SCSU's plan deserves much praise”, in St. Cloud Times, USA, retrieved 2011-05-11, page B6:

(Canada, Northern US, ice hockey, informal) An arena containing a rink and spectator seating for playing and viewing ice hockey, especially one which is considered to be well-equipped and state-of-the-art.


ferruled

(heraldry) Alternative form of viroled, veruled


endpin

Among the ensemble’s strange, outmoded, “original” instruments — the feral horns, sour violins, wooden flutes, cellos without endpins — she seemed right at home, despite her Broadway provenance.

2007 July 8, Jesse Green, “Let Her Entertain You. Please!”, in New York Times:

(music, lutherie) The spike of a cello or double bass that makes contact with the floor and supports the weight of the instrument.


fingery

en-adj

fingery (comparative more fingery, superlative most fingery)

more fingery (comparative)
most fingery (superlative)

(climbing) Requiring the use of fingers to climb


onsight

Reardon made hundreds of free-solo ascents of challenging climbing routes done onsight, meaning without rehearsal or practice.

2007 July 18, Bill Becher, “Rock Climber Presumed Dead After Accident Off Irish Coast”, in New York Times:

(climbing) Without having previously seen the terrain.


onsight

en-verb

onsight (third-person singular simple present onsights, present participle onsighting, simple past and past participle onsighted)

onsights (present singular third-person)
onsighting (participle present)
onsighted (participle past)
onsighted (past)

(climbing, transitive) To perform a climb without having previously seen the terrain.


squirrel grip

A pun on two senses of nuts: the food hoarded by a squirrel, and testicles.

Their breakaway, Philippe Chamayou, had been grabbing our lineout jumpers in the squirrel grip all match long, while ensuring we couldn't return service by wearing a cricket protector For the uneducated a squirrel grip is where an opponent grabs a player by the testicles, the most vile act in the game after eye gouging.

2006, Dan Crowley, Larry Writer, Undercover Prop: The Game They Play in Heaven and a Police Career from Hell, page 75:

'Wootton tells me you put the squirrel grip on one of his commissioners, Jack,' Harry said.

[…] Ponting seems to have traded Waugh's ‘mental disintegration’ for what might be called the ‘psychological squirrel grip’. Of England, he gloats: ‘Mentally, we've got them by the balls.’

2007, Gideon Haigh, The Green & Golden Age: Writings on Australian Cricket Today, page 56:

Anything went in that competition - fingers ripping your nostrils, being spat at. The only thing I didn't encounter was a squirrel grip.

2010, John Elias, Josh Massoud, Sin Bin: The Untold Story of a True Footy Bad Boy, page 82:

(Australia, sports, colloquial, often figurative) A grip on another player's testicles; an illegal rugby tackle involving such a grip.


SPL

And the moment it thumped into the net, Celtic’s march back to the top of the SPL pile also seemed unstoppable.

2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record:

Scottish Premier League
w:Scottish Premier League

(soccer) Initialism of Scottish Premier League, the highest division of Scottish professional football.


make-hawk

(falconry) A trained and seasoned hawk flown with young birds to teach them to take the quarry.


presnap

(American football) Before the snap (passing of the football from the center to a back).


postsnap

(American football) After the snap (passing of the football from the center to a back).


nollie

Gagnon’s final run might have been better, but he fell on his last trick, a nollie heelflip 360.

2007 August 6, Matt Higgins, “No Snow, but White Still Provides the Sizzle”, in New York Times:

(skateboarding, snowboarding) A variation of the ollie where the rider uses the front foot to pop the nose down and the back foot to scrape backwards to achieve lift off of the ground.


funbox

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

(skateboarding, snowboarding) A feature of a skatepark consisting of a tabletop connected to ramps and sometimes other features.


backweight

Fashioned with shafts of aged hickory, ash or lemonwood, these early clubs have heads with an insert of ram’s horn or a lead backweight.

2007 September 7, Wendy Moonan, “Olde Cleeks, Spoons and Brassies (for Birdies and Bogeys)”, in New York Times:

(golf) A weight attached to the back of a golf club to give it a lower centre of gravity.


pas de deux

Borrowed from French pas de deux (literally “step of two”). Compare paso doble.

bor

The way in which they dance . . . the final passion of a pas-de-deux; and the going off with a bound!—I shall never see a real ballet, with a composed countenance again.

1845, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Pictures From Italy:

The Russian was a beautiful youth, like a sun-god with his flying yellow locks and glorious symmetry of body, and the pas de deux between him and Magda was a thing to marvel at.

1921, Margaret Pedler, chapter 5, in The Lamp of Fate:

But at the end of the show, as two senior citizens are brought from the audience to dance together — first tentatively, then springing into a graceful acrobatic pas de deux — we realize that the human body's most sensuous organ is the head.

2003 November 19, Richard Corliss, “That Old Feeling: The Show at the Casino”, in Time:

(dance) A dance performed by two dancers.


tryless

It was a record fourth time England had posted a tryless victory in a World Cup game.

2007 October 7, The Associated Press, “England Upends Australia”, in New York Times:

Scotland, so disappointing in defeat to Argentina a week ago, tryless against the comparative minnows of Georgia, carried all the menace and mobility.

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


gemel

From Middle English gemow, from Old French gemel, from Latin gemellus, diminutive of geminus (“twin”). The modern form is influenced by the Latin etymon.

two gemells silver between two griffins passant

1698, John Strype, Life of the learned Sir Thomas Smith:

(heraldry) One of a pair of small bars placed together.


gemel

A bar gemel / Two bars gemels, or two barrulets placed near and parallel to each other.


lunel

From French lunel, a heraldic term based on lune (“moon”). Compare Spanish lunel, Italian lunello.

(heraldry) A charge formed by four crescents in cross with their horns pointing inwards.


playsheet

Seahawks Coach Mike Holmgren was not happy when NBC showed a close-up of his playsheet during last week’s loss to the Saints, but it was probably time for a new one — the Seahawks (3-3) have scored only 17 points in their past two games.

(sports) A sheet of paper outlining a team's game plan.


linescore

It did not count against the Rockies on their linescore, but it did on the scoreboard.

2007 October 26, Ben Shpigel, “In One Mundane Moment, the Rockies Make a Game-Changing Mistake”, in New York Times:

(baseball) A two-line chart that reports each team's run totals by inning, and total runs, total hits, and total errors.


outpass

en-verb

outpass (third-person singular simple present outpasses, present participle outpassing, simple past and past participle outpassed)

outpasses (present singular third-person)
outpassing (participle present)
outpassed (participle past)
outpassed (past)

His team knocked the ball around in a way that seemed beyond them when they were outpassed by Spain in Alicante in November.

2016 March 27, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:

In a 23-16 loss in Detroit, Tampa Bay outgained the Lions, 422-278; Jeff Garcia outpassed Jon Kitna, 316-147; the Buccaneers had the ball for 11 minutes 40 seconds more.

2007 October 24, “Patriots’ Bargains Bring Dividends”, in New York Times:

(transitive, sports) To pass the ball more skilfully than.


christie

Named after the city of Kristiania (now Oslo) in Norway.

(skiing) A high-speed ski turn in which the skis are kept parallel.


flyhawk

Two flyhawks like Hunter and Matthews would be running into each other all the time, probably leaping against the wall simultaneously.

2007 November 27, Murray Chass, “Stockpiling Center Fielders, but at What Cost?”, in New York Times:

(baseball, informal) A skilled outfielder.


dust off a batter

dust off a batter (third-person singular simple present dusts off a batter, present participle dusting off a batter, simple past and past participle dusted off a batter)

dusts off a batter (present singular third-person)
dusting off a batter (participle present)
dusted off a batter (participle past)
dusted off a batter (past)

From the concept that a pitch thrown very close to a batter will remove some dust or dirt from the batter's uniform either by brushing against it or causing a breeze very close to it, or alternatively by the batter jumping away from the pitch to avoid being hit.

That pitcher doesn't like the hitters too close to the plate so every once in a while he'll dust off a batter.

He never attempted to dust off a batter; and his control was so great that no hitter was ever afraid to stand right up to the plate and look Matty's fast ball right in the eye.

1947, Robert Smith, Baseball: a historical narrative of the game, the men who have played it, and its place in American life, page 206:

(idiomatic, baseball) for a pitcher to throw a pitch at or near the batter, typically to frighten the batter or to have him stand farther away from home plate.


time attack

time + attack. Second sense is a calque of Japanese タイムアタック (taimu atakku), itself from English.

clq

Starting off in Japan, Time Attack, Super Lap and Tuner Battles were organised by the media as a proving ground to see the difference between street tuned cars, produced by the tuning industries most respected tuners.

2006, “Time Attack FAQ's”, in Time Attack - Official Website, archived from the original on 2007-09-12:

There are only eight levels but the varied game modes (including time attacks, survivals, team deathmatches, hunts, and sieges) in both single and multi-player keeps things interesting.

(motor racing, video games) Synonym of time trial


handplant

(skateboarding) A move in which the skater balances on his hand after skating up to the top of a halfpipe.


touch football

(American football) A variant of American football in which players are touched as opposed to tackled.


busher

He was talking about me all the time that day in Boston, standing with the bat boy, making cracks. That's all right but when he called me a busher in front of the whole Yank team and then challenged me, I had to fight.

(US, baseball, slang) A major league baseball player who has recently come from a small league.


superleague

(sports) A major professional sporting league, often with a strong commercial bias.


banana kick

(sports) A kick that causes a spin to make the ball bend away from the player's body.


Prem

Palace are back in the Prem - but for how long?

1997, Peterjon Cresswell, Simon Evans, Dan Goldstein, European football: a fans' handbook:

Linked us, now she don't wanna link them man again / Your ex plays in the Prem but you never see him taking a pen

2016 February 14, Joseph Adenuga, Darren Dixon, Tariq Devega (lyrics and music), “Ladies Hit Squad” (track 6), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta ft. D Double E and ASAP Nast, Boy Better Know:


superzoom

This camera, like the Kodak, is also shaped like a mini-S.L.R. and has a stabilized superzoom lens (10X).

2007 December 6, David Pogue, “Looking Beyond Megapixels”, in New York Times:

(photography) A very high-magnification zoom feature.


quick-draw

(climbing) A runner: a short sling with a karabiner on either end, used to link the climbing rope to a bolt, nut, Friend, or similar.


reichsmark

Unadapted borrowing from German Reichsmark.

ubor

(historical, numismatics) The monetary unit in Germany between 1924 and 1948.


autoflash

(photography) A camera feature that automatically enables the flash in limited lighting conditions.


overskate

en-verb

overskate (third-person singular simple present overskates, present participle overskating, simple past and past participle overskated)

overskates (present singular third-person)
overskating (participle present)
overskated (participle past)
overskated (past)

Boyle’s goal, which came after Rangers defenseman Jason Strudwick overskated the puck behind the net to give the Kings an easy pass out front, came 13 minutes 8 seconds into the first period.

2008 February 6, Lynn Zinser, “After 3 Road Victories, Rangers Falter at Home”, in New York Times:

(transitive, ice hockey) To skate beyond the puck, thus losing control of it.


nontackle

Collin Link, now 12, is back to training and sports, including a nontackle form of football.

2008 February 18, Gina Kolata, “A Big-Time Injury Striking Little Players’ Knees”, in New York Times:


ballhandler

“Like every kid her age, she has to become a much better ballhandler and a better defender,” he said.

2008 February 26, Frank Litsky, “In Freshman Season, Moore Shows UConn What May Come”, in New York Times:


strawweight

en-noun

strawweight (countable and uncountable, plural strawweights)

(mixed martial arts) the weight class of 106-115 lbs, above atomweight and below flyweight


minimumweight

The Japanese boxer Yutaka Niida stopped the challenger José Varela of Venezuela in the sixth round on in Tokyo to defend his W.B.A. minimumweight title.

2008 March 2, The Associated Press, “Niida Wins in Title Defense”, in New York Times:

(boxing) The lowest weight class in professional boxing, where boxers may weigh no more than 105 pounds (48 kg).


pivotman

An injury had sidelined our 6-10 senior pivotman, Connie Dierking, so we were still adjusting at both ends of the court.

2008 March 9, Oscar Robertson, “When the Big O First Played the Garden: 56 in ’58”, in New York Times:

(sports) A player in a central position.


focimeter

(photography, historical) A device that assists in focusing an object in or before a camera; usually a lens of small magnifying power.


rockwork

rockwork (countable and uncountable, plural rockworks)

Lord John was an experienced mountaineer, and Summerlee had done some rough climbing at various times, so that I was really the novice at rock-work of the party; but my strength and activity may have made up for my want of experience.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

(climbing) The act of climbing a rock face, cliff, etc.


chronophotography

And since he studies 19th-century chronophotography — sometimes called precinema or pre-cinematography — for his day job as a professor of animation at London Metropolitan University, he knew where (and when) to begin looking for model machinery.

2008 May 21, Melena Ryzik, “Telescope Takes a Long View, to London”, in New York Times:

(photography) An antique photographic technique from the Victorian era which captures movement in several frames of print.

chronophotographie

photographic technique which captures movement in several frames


softbox

Mr. Tamindzic, a lanky 6 feet 3 inches tall, all legs and elbows, was purposeful and obvious, with a hefty Canon EOS 5D camera in one hand and a LumiQuest softbox flash in the other (to throw up a noirish, crime-scene photographer’s burst of intense light).

2008 May 21, Eric Konigsberg, “A Chronicler of Night-Life Melancholy, Looking for Contradictory Layers”, in New York Times:

(photography) A photographic lighting device consisting of a bulb with reflective back and side walls and a diffusing material at the front.


peep pixels

en-verb

peep pixels (third-person singular simple present peeps pixels, present participle peeping pixels, simple past and past participle peeped pixels)

peeps pixels (present singular third-person)
peeping pixels (participle present)
peeped pixels (participle past)
peeped pixels (past)

I'll wager if you peep pixels you'll find plenty of artifacts and other image degradation in images from your P & S.

2006 March 23, Jeff Varszegi, "You forgot sharpness. :)," Digital Photography Review (www.dpreview.com) (retrieved 23 June 2011)

I have then peeped pixels (I admit being guilty by doing so), looked at the sharpness, resolution, barrelling, pincushion, vignetting, you name it.

2006 October 29, Cem Usakligil, “Sigma 12-24 vs EF 10-22”, in www.openphotographyforums.com, retrieved 2011-06-23:

You can peep pixels all day long and you won't find any evidence of Photoshopping.

2008 Jan. 29, patrickvr6, "Dope Trucks2," forums.triplezoom.com (retrieved 23 June 2011)

(informal, photography) To scrutinize a magnified digital photograph carefully in order to make a technical assessment of resolution and image quality.


pixel peeper

Those whom I have called pixel peepers are satisfied with nothing less than an intimate dissection of a camera/lens' abilities (always at 100% pixel magnification), without regard for whether or not perceived optical defects are even actually visible in real world prints.

2004 March 27, Michael Reichmann, "The Case of the Nit Picking Pixel Peepers", The Luminous Landscape (luminous-landscape.com) (retrieved 23 April 2012)

Overall unless you are a merciless pixel peeper I can't imagine someone being unhappy with the sharpness of this lens.

2006 July 17, Aravind Krishnaswamy, "Canon 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM review," Aravind's Reviews (www.aravind.ca) (retrieved 23 June 2011)

There is detectable noise at the lower ISOs if you are a pixel peeper.

2007 April 8, “Owners Opinion: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3”, in www.dpreview.com, retrieved 2011-06-23:

Detailed tests of image sensors are raw meat for performance-obsessed pixel-peepers.

2008 November 24, Stephen Shankland, “DxO sheds light on camera sensor performance”, in CNET.com, retrieved 2011-06-23:

(idiomatic, photography) A person who carefully scrutinizes a magnified digital photograph in order to evaluate resolution and image quality.


double-fault

double-fault (third-person singular simple present double-faults, present participle double-faulting, simple past and past participle double-faulted)

double-faults (present singular third-person)
double-faulting (participle present)
double-faulted (participle past)
double-faulted (past)


drive-volley

The fourth seed was dominating her 20-year-old opponent with a series of stinging groundstrokes and athletic drive-volleys, striking again in game five when Paszek flicked a forehand pick-up into the tramlines.

2011 June 28, David Ornstein, “Wimbledon 2011: Victoria Azarenka beats Tamira Paszek in quarters”, in BBC Sport:

(tennis) A powerful underarm volley shot.


last eight

Australian qualifier Bernard Tomic reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals by beating Belgium's Xavier Malisse 6-1 7-5 6-4 in the fourth round. The German-born 18-year-old is the first qualifier to reach the last eight since Vladimir Voltchkov in 2000.

2011 June 27, “Wimbledon 2011: Bernard Tomic extends dream run”, in BBC Sport:

(sports) A quarterfinal; the players in a quarterfinal


last four

Victoria Azarenka advanced to her first Grand Slam semi-final with a late-night victory over Tamira Paszek under the Centre Court roof at Wimbledon....
The Belarusian takes on eighth seed Petra Kvitova in the last four.
Whoever wins that goes on to play Maria Sharapova or Sabine Lisicki in Saturday's final - and Azarenka will be full of confidence having beaten Paszek.


love hold

Azarenka whipped a sensational forehand around the net post to break for 2-0 in the second set, followed it up with a love hold and moved to 5-1 when Paszek netted a forehand.

(tennis) A game in which the server wins every point (in which the server holds to love).


last sixteen

The young Northern Ireland player now meets Ryan Day for a place in the last sixteen of the ranking tournament.

2008 February 12, “Allen edges through in Welsh Open”, in BBC Sport:

(sports) The round in a knockout competition before the quarterfinal, in which sixteen teams or competitors remain.


clipless

From clip + -less.
On bicycles, clipless pedals are called such because they do not have toe clips, even though they still have a clip at the bottom of the shoe.

(cycling, of a pedal or shoe) Having a cleat at the sole which can be easily clipped on or off.


fishfinding

(fishing) The location of fish by means of a fishfinder device.


ivorytype

(photography, dated) A picture produced by superposing a tinted translucent print upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colours.


game-time decision

en-noun

game-time decision (plural game-time decisions)

A topographical presentation of these contours was used as a game-time decision aid by the UCLA 1972-73 Football Coaching Staff.

1976, Engel Machol, Shaul P. Ladany, Management Science in Sports, p. 57

(sports) A decision about the conduct of a sporting event, usually one made by the coach regarding which players will start or will play, or which strategy will be employed, which is put off until the start of the game itself.


open season

open season (countable and uncountable, plural open seasons)

"But there weren't many crabs in those days," the old man wandered on. "They were fished out, and they were great delicacies. The open season was only a month long, too."

1912, Jack London, chapter 1, in The Scarlet Plague (fiction):

(hunting, sometimes followed by on or for to designate the kind of animal hunted) A period of time during the calendar year when authorities within a jurisdiction permit the unrestricted hunting of one or more kinds of animal wildlife.


goal celebration

goal celebration (plural goal celebrations)

(sports) A choreography that is acted after scoring a goal.


dancetté

From French danché, related to dent (“tooth”).

A fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.

(heraldry) Deeply indented; having large teeth.


pile on

en-verb

pile on (third-person singular simple present piles on, present participle piling on, simple past and past participle piled on)

piles on (present singular third-person)
piling on (participle present)
piled on (participle past)
piled on (past)

(intransitive, figurative, sports) To unnecessarily extend the margin of a winning score.


pump fake

Winning quarterbacks find creative ways to win, whether it is by scrambling, using a pump fake, calling an audible at the line of scrimmage, or blocking downfield for a running back.

2007, Clinton O. Longenecker, Greg R. Papp, Timothy C. Stansfield, The Two-Minute Drill, page 60:

Sure enough, instead of the drop-back pass, the quarterback gave a pump-fake and then handed off to his fullback on the draw play.

2004, Pete Rose, Rick Hill, My Prison Without Bars, page 6:

He fooled Penny with a pump fake and dropped in a 3-pointer, sending the game into overtime.

2002, Shaquille O'Neal, Shaq Talks Back, page 42:

(sports) An act of pretending to throw or shoot the ball in order to make a defender react.


AFF

(aviation, parachuting) Initialism of accelerated freefall.


century break

(snooker) A consecutive score of 100 or more points in one visit to the table in a frame of snooker.


lioncel

(heraldry) A small lion, when one of several in a coat of arms.


c&b

Caught and bowled
caught and bowled#English

(cricket, on a scorecard) Initialism of Caught and bowled.


number ten

attacking midfielder
attacking midfielder

(soccer) The main offensive playmaker in a team, usually an attacking midfielder.


slappy

(skateboarding) A grind on a curb without doing an ollie.


all-up weight

en-noun

all-up weight (countable and uncountable, plural all-up weights)

(sports) The combined weight of a sportsman and their equipment; especially the weight of a paraglider and its pilot.


sag off

en-verb

sag off (third-person singular simple present sags off, present participle sagging off, simple past and past participle sagged off)

sags off (present singular third-person)
sagging off (participle present)
sagged off (participle past)
sagged off (past)

The defender playing the man with the ball meets him at the perimeter. The other five defenders will "sag off"their men at varying distances, which are determined by the location of the offensive players. The defender can sag only to the point where he can effectively guard his man if he were to receive the ball.

1978, Robert Scott, Lacrosse: Technique and Tradition, →ISBN, page 101:

Instead, the on-ball defender (in zone or man) will sag off toward the basket, cutting off passing lanes and adding more help to the interior.

2002, Clay Kallam, Girls' Basketball: Building a Winning Program, page 51:

If Daniel is out of shooting range when he gives up his dribble, consider having the defender sag off the ball toward the basket and anticipate the next pass. (Note that sagging off is recommended only for advanced players with good judgement).

2009, Fran Dunphy, Lawrence Hsieh, The Baffled Parent's Guide to Great Basketball Plays, page 89:

When you are on the weak side, sag off your opponent and form an imaginary flat triangle between you, your opponent, and the ball.

2012, Hal Wissel, Basketball-3rd Edition: Steps to Success, →ISBN, page 321:

(basketball, lacrosse) To back off from an opponent against whom one is defending.


roll in

roll in (third-person singular simple present rolls in, present participle rolling in, simple past and past participle rolled in)

rolls in (present singular third-person)
rolling in (participle present)
rolled in (participle past)
rolled in (past)

He rolled the red in dead weight, and now he's nicely on the blue.

(snooker, transitive) To pot with minimal force.


waggler

(fishing) A float consisting of a thin tube of plastic with a line threaded through an eye at the bottom.


underspin

en-noun

underspin (countable and uncountable, plural underspins)

(countable, sports) A shot using backspin.


ice climbing

(climbing) the branch of mountaineering that specializes in climbing on frozen surfaces.

攀冰

activity of ascending inclined ice formations


sticky-fingered

en-adj

sticky-fingered (comparative more sticky-fingered, superlative most sticky-fingered)

more sticky-fingered (comparative)
most sticky-fingered (superlative)

Chicago's sticky-fingered defense intercepted five of YA Tittle's passes.

1963 December 30, “Bears Win, 14 to 10; Take Title”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 2011-07-22, page 13:

His batting average has hovered in the .330s all season and he has played his usual sticky-fingered defense at second.

2007 June 13, Jon Krawczynski, “Twins 7, Braves 3”, in USA Today, retrieved 2011-07-22:

(sports) Skillful in catching or handling the ball, in such games as baseball, football, basketball, etc.


undertime

en-verb

undertime (third-person singular simple present undertimes, present participle undertiming, simple past and past participle undertimed)

undertimes (present singular third-person)
undertiming (participle present)
undertimed (participle past)
undertimed (past)

(transitive, photography) To underexpose.


water wing

From water + wing. Compare German Schwimmflügel (“water wing”, literally “swim-wing”).

noncog

armband

(swimming) Synonym of armband (“one of a pair of inflatable plastic bands, normally worn on the upper arms, to help the wearer (often a child) float in water and learn to swim”)


crinet

Probably from Middle French crin (“hair”) + -et.

She has a blue beak, but the seer thereof, and legs, are yellow; the crinets or little feathers under the eye are very black; […]

1792, William Augustus Osbaldiston, The British Sportsman, page 379:

(obsolete, falconry) Each of the small hair-like feathers growing around a hawk's cere.


sac bunt

(colloquial, baseball) A sacrifice bunt.


long lens

(photography, informal) A telephoto lens.


normal lens

(photography) A lens which produces an image similar in detail and angular perspective to the view produced by the human eye, as distinct from a wide-angle lens or a telephoto lens.


telephoto lens

en-noun

telephoto lens (plural telephoto lenses)

(photography) A lens having a long focal length which produces a magnified view of distant objects.

(photography) A lens which produces a magnified view of distant objects and which is sufficiently compact to have a physical length shorter than its focal length (as distinct from a long-focus lens).


UDRS

Umpire Decision Review System
w:Umpire Decision Review System

(cricket) Initialism of Umpire Decision Review System.


DRS

Decision Review System
w:Umpire Decision Review System

(cricket) Initialism of Decision Review System.


Trent Bridge

(cricket) A cricket ground in a suburb of Nottingham, England


denticulated

(heraldry, of a bordure, very rare) Embattled, but with only the projecting portions visible, so that the bordure appears non-contiguous (but the spaces are part of the field, unlike compony).


pinhole camera

Many of today's photographers forget that a pinhole camera — essentially a small box with a hole in it — can be used to produce a quality photograph.

1981 April 12, Bruce Habegger, “Pinhole cameras can give surprising results”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-08-03:

There are never-published treasures like British entrepreneur William Turner's scenes of Shanghai life in the early 1900s — probably taken with a homemade pinhole camera.

2010 May 3, Don Morrison, “The Capture of Shanghai”, in Time:

(photography) A simple lensless device for producing a photographic image, consisting of an enclosed box with film or some other flat photosensitive surface on one interior side and a tiny hole in the opposite side.

lyukkamera

a simple lensless device for producing a photographic image


SLD

single lens digital
single lens digital#English

(photography) Initialism of single lens digital.


mushball

He was just an athletic guy in street clothes playing mushball near the lake.

2009 January 31, George Vecsey, “Phillies Pitchers of Old Revel in Past and Present”, in New York Times:

(sports) A variant of softball with a bigger, softer ball and no gloves or mitts worn by the fielders.


door prize

(cycling, humorous) A notional prize awarded to a cyclist who collides with the open door of a parked car.


dope sheet

The "field number" of the film is indexed into a reference file, along with the cameraman's "dope" sheet.

1967 August 4, “Stored at Quantico: Fifty Years of Filmed History”, in Free Lance-Star, USA, retrieved 2011-08-07, page 5:

Moreover, both the official cameramen and the newsreel cameramen were required to write a detailed ‘dope sheet’ describing each shot they had taken.

1975, Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, volumes 12-13, page 16:

The dope sheet for the photographs, which may have been written some time later reads: "Accidentally shot by an Englishman while hunting in Africa."

2010, Neil Parsons, Alexander McCall Smith, Clicko: The Wild Dancing Bushman, →ISBN, page 91:

(idiomatic, photography) A summary of the content and technical information for a set of photographs.


MCC

Marylebone Cricket Club
w:Marylebone Cricket Club

(cricket) Initialism of Marylebone Cricket Club (the former governing body of cricket).


square ball

(soccer) A pass played square (not forward or backward, i.e. sideways)


overdribble

en-verb

overdribble (third-person singular simple present overdribbles, present participle overdribbling, simple past and past participle overdribbled)

overdribbles (present singular third-person)
overdribbling (participle present)
overdribbled (participle past)
overdribbled (past)

The series would end with Magic overdribbling the Lakers into a Game 7 defeat in Boston, where Bird’s triumph over Johnson was illuminated like a darkened Garden full of victory cigars.

2009 March 24, Harvey Araton, “For Duke Star, Family Lore in Boston”, in New York Times:

(basketball) To dribble the ball excessively.


double exposure

en-noun

double exposure (plural double exposures)

"The secret of all successful double-exposure photography may be expressed in one word—exactitude," said Georges Benoit, cameraman for Richard Walton Tully in The Masquerader.

1922 April 9, “Cameraman Talks Double Exposure”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2011-08-11, page III-38:

A double exposure from the 1960's seems to make explicit some of the implications of Cunningham's own early plant studies. In it, ghostly hands appear on top of the image of an aloe plant, with fingers and fronds jumbled together, all outstretched and reaching.

1995 October 13, Charles Hagen, “Photography Review”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-08-11:

(photography) A photograph produced by exposing film or some other photosensitive surface to focused light twice, usually by opening and closing a camera shutter two times, thereby generating a picture consisting of two superimposed images.

I've used double exposures to capture ghosts on film, to photograph two of me playing ping pong, and to capture a time-lapse shot of a birthday cake new and half-eaten in the same frame.

2004 April 13, Dave Johnson, “Digital Focus: Double-Exposure Tricks”, in PC World, retrieved 2011-08-11:

(photography) The process of producing such a photograph.


fullcourt

Missouri does not employ fullcourt pressure all the time, but it uses varying defensive schemes to remain unpredictable.

2009 March 26, Thayer Evans, “Missouri Thrives on Running Opponents Ragged”, in New York Times:

(basketball) Of or pertaining to the entire basketball court.


end line

(sports, American football, hurling, Gaelic football) In various goal-based sports, the boundary line, running across the goal.

hurling; Gaelic football; hurling; Gaelic football

(basketball) out of bounds line under the basket


deloft

en-verb

deloft (third-person singular simple present delofts, present participle delofting, simple past and past participle delofted)

delofts (present singular third-person)
delofting (participle present)
delofted (participle past)
delofted (past)

To ensure that you do not make a normal transfer of weight to your front foot during the swing, which may be good for full shots or chips but delofts the club in a flop shot, practice keeping your front heel off the ground throughout the swing.

2009 April 13, Bill Pennington, “Sorenstam’s Tips for Flop Shots in Tough Spots”, in New York Times:

(golf) To reduce the loft of a stroke with.


multiple exposure

en-noun

multiple exposure (plural multiple exposures)

ECLIPSE IN NEW YORK — this multiple exposure shows stages of the solar eclipse, starting at top left, as seen in New York City Monday afternoon.

1972 July 11, "Eclipse in New York (photo caption)," Victoria Advocate (Texas, USA), p. 1 (retrieved 11 Aug. 2011)

[W]ith a film camera . . . to take a good multiple exposure . . . your camera needed to have a special control that prevented the film from advancing while you captured each frame in the series. . . . These days, creating a multiple exposure digitally is a snap.

2008 February 18, Dave Johnson, “How to Make Multiple Exposures”, in PC World, retrieved 2011-08-11:

(photography) A photograph produced by exposing film or some other photosensitive surface to focused light more than one time, usually by opening and closing a camera shutter repeatedly, thereby generating a picture consisting of superimposed images.

Mr. Telberg-von-Teleheim's method is that of multiple exposure, either in the camera when taking the picture, or in the enlarger when making the print.

1948 September 26, Jacob Deschin, “Two Kinds of Work: Mental ‘Views’ Contrasted With Pictures of Fact”, in New York Times, page X13:


short stuff

(cricket) Deliveries that bounce relatively far from the batsman or batswoman.


fisheye lens

(photography) A wide-angle lens having an extremely wide field of view (approaching or exceeding 180 degrees) and producing images that are circular or distorted by curvature at the edges.

objectiu ull de peix

wide-angle lens with extremely wide field of view


folkstyle

But there are differences in the scoring and technique between the folkstyle wrestling in college, and the freestyle at the Olympics and the world championships.

2009 May 3, The Associated Press, “A U.S. College Wrestler Sees a World of Possibility”, in New York Times:

(US, sports) Being a style of amateur wrestling practised at collegiate and university level in the United States; the ultimate goal is to pin the opponent to the mat, and the legs can be used in offense and defense.


chalk bag

(climbing) A small pouch attached to a climber's harness, designed to filled with climbing chalk.


URT

URT (countable and uncountable, plural URTs)

unified rear triangle
unified rear triangle#English

(cycling) Initialism of unified rear triangle.


meat safe

“[…] but Bob ’e jumps inside an’ ’e lets ’im ’ave it plumb square on the meat safe as ’ard as ever the Lord would let ’im put it in.”

1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 10, in Rodney Stone,, London: Smith, Elder, page 172:

[…] with him carryin’ his guard high, and leavin’ the way to his meat safe open half the time, it was all I could do to hold myself back.

1908, Sewell Ford, chapter 14, in Side-Stepping with Shorty, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, page 221:


put over

en-verb

put over (third-person singular simple present puts over, present participle putting over, simple past and past participle put over)

puts over (present singular third-person)
putting over (participle present)
put over (participle past)
put over (past)

The first was the product of a destructive hard line down the middle by Manu Tuilagi, which sucked in the Australian defence and stretched the cover further out, allowing Farrell and Curry to put May over in the left corner.

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

(rugby) To make a decisive pass to a teammate so they can score a try.

(professional wrestling slang) To increase the popularity or prove the legitimacy of another wrestler, usually by losing to them.


orl fly

(fishing) An alderfly, perhaps specifically of the species Sialis lutaria.


grandstand play

en-noun

grandstand play (plural grandstand plays)

Instead of throwing it to center, however, she tried to make a grandstand play and threw it the entire length of the gymnasium to the waiting forward.

1916, Hildegard G. Frey, chapter 8, in The Camp Fire Girls at School:

Every baseball fan is acquainted with the sarcastic reminder, "two hands are the fashion nowadays," often hurled at the infielder who foozles an attempt at a grandstand play in the form of a one-handed catch.

1921 October 2, “One-handed drivers menace to public”, in Vancouver Sun, Canada, retrieved 2011-08-30, page 17:

(idiomatic, sports) A successful play or other manoeuvre during a sporting competition in which one or more players shows off unnecessarily in order to entertain or impress the spectators.


alderfly

(fishing) An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.


break through

en-verb

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

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

Montenegro gave Wales a scare in the first minute at the Cardiff City Stadium when Stevan Jovetic broke through, only to screw his shot well wide.

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

(intransitive, sports) To penetrate the defence of the opposition.


ultrazoom

The ultrazoom species of point-and-shoot digital camera is identified solely by its large optical zoom.

2009 June 25, John Biggs, “Little Cameras With Big Eyes”, in New York Times:

(photography) A very high-magnification zoom feature.


countervair

(heraldry) A heraldic fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures: succeeding rows are reversed instead of staggered, so the bases of the panes of each tincture are opposite those of the same tincture in adjoining rows.


noseride

noseride (third-person singular simple present noserides, present participle noseriding, simple past noserode, past participle noseridden)

noserides (present singular third-person)
noseriding (participle present)
noserode (past)
noseridden (participle past)

We strewed the contents of the box across the bench and clawed through them to find other images of Sando. There was even an old picture of him as a jug-eared kid in sandshoes, noseriding a longboard with his back arched and his arm and head thrown back like a matador.

2008, Tim Winton, Breath, Picador UK Paperback edition 2008, p.71

The idea behind the shape, reminiscent of an hourglass, is to emphasize noseriding and tailriding for recreational surfers.

2009 July 14, Joshua Robinson, “Going Beyond the Waves to Reshape an Experience”, in New York Times:

(intransitive, surfing) To manoeuvre a surfboard from the front end.


speedballer

The movie was named “Bull Durham,” with Tim Robbins as the speedballer who was all over the place.

2009 July 19, George Vecsey, “A Hall of Fame for a Legendary Fastball Pitcher”, in New York Times:


centerfielder

Mets centerfielder Carlos Beltran has been out since June 22 with a bone bruise on his right knee.

2009 July 30, Joe Lapointe, “A Personal Twin Bill for Mets’ Castillo”, in New York Times:

(baseball) A player in the centerfield position.


caveating

Caveating is so necessary a motion in fencing, that without it there could be scarcely any offensive part, or pursuit.

(fencing) Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.


moonball

(tennis) A medium-high offensive lob hit with topspin.


moonball

moonball (third-person singular simple present moonballs, present participle moonballing, simple past and past participle moonballed)

moonballs (present singular third-person)
moonballing (participle present)
moonballed (participle past)
moonballed (past)

(tennis) To strike the ball in this way.


overcut

en-noun

overcut (usually uncountable, plural overcuts)

(motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone else by pitting after them and running in clean air to make up time.


crossbody

(wrestling) a move in which a wrestler jumps onto his opponent and lands horizontally across the opponent's torso, forcing them to the mat.


Giro

(cycling, by ellipsis) The Giro d'Italia.


Vuelta

(cycling, by ellipsis) The Vuelta a España.


Grand Tour

(cycling) One of the three most prominent cycling races: either the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España.


pink jersey

(cycling) A pink shirt worn by the leader in the Giro d'Italia.


overstand

From Middle English overstonden, from Old English oferstandan (“to stand over”), equivalent to over- + stand. Cognate with Dutch overstaan (“to stand over”), German überstehen (“to stand through, survive”).

cog

(lutherie) The measurement between the top plate and the fingerboard where the neck meets the body of the instrument.


Boston Mess

(juggling) A pattern which consists of throwing each prop straight up whilst crossing and uncrossing one's arms.


Mike's Mess

(juggling) A pattern, usually done with three balls, which consists of throwing and catching each prop under one's non-throwing arm.


patella femoral pain syndrome

en-noun

patella femoral pain syndrome (uncountable)

(sports, pathology) A sports injury causing chronic pain in the kneecap.


return pass

But then Arsenal scored. Sebastian Kehl's poor touch ended at Walcott's feet via Van Persie. The Englishman's return pass was a delight, allowing Van Persie to take a touch before rifling a rising drive past Roman Weidenfeller.

2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC:

(soccer) A pass back to the person who just passed the ball.


insurance goal

Ricky Shakes scored Guyana's first goal in the 10th minute and Leon Cort provided the insurance goal in the 81st minute.

2012, Aldwyn McGill, Jamaica Football: Reggae Boyz History, page 40:

(US, soccer) A goal scored by a team that is already leading by one goal.


pack out

en-verb

pack out (third-person singular simple present packs out, present participle packing out, simple past and past participle packed out)

packs out (present singular third-person)
packing out (participle present)
packed out (participle past)
packed out (past)

(intransitive, skiing, of snow) To become quite compacted; to become tightly-packed.


lens cap

(photography) The detachable cap that protects the camera lens when the camera is not in use.


half-century

He brought up his half-century with a powerful drive past offspinner Dan Cullen, whose seven overs cost 0-52.

2009 January 30, AAP, “Vics make great start despite Rogers loss”, in Herald Sun:

(cricket) A score of 50 runs by a single batsman in one innings

Selby's charge continued with a half-century in the 30th frame and a fluked red set him on the way to winning the 31st frame.

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

(sports) A score of 50 points in a single game.


bottom of the table

(UK, sports) Finishing in last place in the standings in a league or tournament.


jugata

Latin, neuter plural of iugatus (“joined”).

Obv. Inscription to left, LINCOLN &; to right, HAMLIN; center, jugata busts to left of Lincoln and Hamlin with FB SMITH F. (engraver) below, all enclosed by palm wreath.

1959, John Doyle DeWitt, A century of campaign buttons, 1789-1889:

(numismatics, sometimes postnominal) Side by side or joined.


transfer list

After his string of poor performances, he was put on the transfer list.

(sports) A list of players available for sale to other clubs.


long corner

(soccer) A corner kick played directly into the goal area, as opposed to a short corner.


kicking boots

If these two were outstanding, the others were not far behind. Finlow, having his best game for the School, put Murphy in for the next try and it did not seem to matter that Mangeot had for once left his kicking boots behind[,] for Lintin, Finlow and H. Cooper were all but over before half-time.

1979, “Rugby Football”, in The Ampleforth Journal, volume 79, page 154:

Helped by a quite remarkable individual run by Jason[…], Jonny found his kicking boots again, Wales succumbed 28—17 and we were through to the semis in Sydney on 16 November.

2009, Josh Lewsey, One Chance: My Life and Rugby, page 127:

As in their narrow defeat of Argentina last week, England were indisciplined at the breakdown, and if Georgian fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili had remembered his kicking boots, Johnson's side might have been behind at half-time.

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

(chiefly rugby, idiomatic) Ability to kick well.


free transfer

(sports) The signing of a player without paying a fee to another club.


periodize

periodize (third-person singular simple present periodizes, present participle periodizing, simple past and past participle periodized)

periodizes (present singular third-person)
periodizing (participle present)
periodized (participle past)
periodized (past)

/ˈpɪəɹɪəˌdaɪz/

(weightlifting, sports) To split (a training program) into segments of a few weeks or months, so that training begins at lower intensity and is gradually increased to high intensity.


lay-up

Christophe could tell whether Joshua wanted him to pass the ball to him into the inside for an easy lay-up by the set of his mouth.

2008, Jesmyn Ward, Where the Line Bleeds, Bloomsbury (2018), pages 52-53:


late tackle

Stepanov was then booked for a late tackle on Andrews and that would late prove very costly.

2011 November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, in RTE Sport:

Javier Hernandez's attempts to turn in the rebound were foiled by Ashley Cole's reckless late tackle - which left the England defender fortunate to receive only a yellow card from referee Phil Dowd and United puzzled that they were not awarded a second penalty.

2011 September 18, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 3 - 1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:

(soccer) A mistimed attempt to take the ball of an opposing player that results in the tackler making contact with the player and not the ball


line judge

(tennis) An official who watches the lines of the court and judges whether the ball has landed in or out and also declares foot faults.


Smurf turf

Rhyming name: The Smurfs are blue cartoon characters.

(US, sports, slang) The distinctive blue ground of the Bronco Stadium, Idaho, United States.


open-side

(rugby) the portion of the field which is larger as measured from a scrum or breakdown to the touchline

(rugby) a position in the last row of forwards on that side, more fully open-side flanker, designated with number 7

Up front, skipper and open-side Lewis Moody looked almost back to full fitness, while England's set-piece was barely troubled, albeit against a Romania side showing 11 changes from that beaten by Argentina earlier in the week.

2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport:


chalk out

chalk out (third-person singular simple present chalks out, present participle chalking out, simple past and past participle chalked out)

chalks out (present singular third-person)
chalking out (participle present)
chalked out (participle past)
chalked out (past)

A 25-1 shot won race 3, but the rest of the early pick 5 chalked out after that.

(US, intransitive, horse racing) In a multi-race wager, to lose to the favorite in all of the remaining races.


first touch

They might have taken the lead when Gervinho latched on to a Mikel Arteta through ball, only for a heavy first touch to let Jussi Jaaskelainen gather.

2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport:

(sports) A player's initial contact with the moving ball, used to get the ball under control.


play the advantage

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

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

Referee Mark Clattenburg played the advantage after Gretar Steinsson's challenge on Gervinho and Aaron Ramsey fed Van Persie, who shot low past Jaaskelainen.

(sports) To allow play to continue, that the referee doesn't whistle for a foul, despite the attacking team being fouled, because they are in an advantageous position.


consolation goal

en-noun

consolation goal (plural consolation goals)

(sports) A goal scored by the losing team near the end of a game that has no effect on the outcome.


return ball

It was a dreadful goal to concede as Ariel Ibagaza was able to take a short corner and then receive the return ball in space on the left. He stood up a floated cross into the middle where Fuster arrived unmarked to steer a header into the corner.

2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:

(sports) A pass back to the initial passer


knock on

en-verb

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

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

It then took a desperate piece of defending from Ben Foden to deny Scotland a try in the left-hand corner, the full-back reaching out an arm to knock the ball from Simon Danielli's grasp, Nick de Luca knocking on with the line at his mercy.

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

(transitive, intransitive, rugby) To commit a foul by knocking the ball forward.


strikeforce

Liverpool's £58m strikeforce of Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez scored the goals that settled the Merseyside derby at Goodison Park - but Everton were left complaining bitterly about Jack Rodwell's controversial early red card.

2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:

(soccer, figuratively) Collectively, the strikers in a team.


reaction save

The England striker had come close with a first-half header from a Bannan free-kick and after a neat piece of ball juggling and fierce shot, Bent was then denied by a superb reaction save from Al-Habsi.

2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport:

(soccer) The instinctive blocking of the ball by a goalkeeper.


bring the lumber

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

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

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-bring the lumber.wav

While Dontrelle Willis got limber, the guys facing him brought the lumber — or aluminum, in this case

2005, “Hurricanes Knock Willis Around”, in Lewiston Tribune, Lewiston, ME:

Ole Miss center Rahim Lockhart stayed on the floor. And the Rebels moved in front of Kentucky and stayed there. "I told the guys I was going to get through the first half with one foul," Lockhart said. "Then, in the second half, I was able to bring the lumber." The No. 21 Rebels used Lockhart's tenacious defense near the basket and Jason Harrison's outside shooting to […]

2001 January 21, “REBELS TAME WILDCATS”, in Sun Herald, OXFORD, MS, page B1:

Along with Kirby (47 tackles), Welbig (35) brings the lumber for a defense that has allowed just 8.2 points a game against a tough schedule

2008 November 14, “Tri-Valley, Groton set for rematch”, in Argus Leader:

(sports) To play in a physically aggressive way in a contact sport, especially defensively.


leadline

From lead (noun) + line (after the metal); the attached plummet is usually made from lead.

To attach the bridles, start measuring from the point on the gavel 16 metres from the floatline wheree you have seized the end of the leadline.

1987, M. Ben-Yami, Purse-seining with Small Boats, →ISBN, page 46:

The hold was empty, without a net, corkline, leadline or buoy to be found.

1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 103:

Generally, there will be equal selvedges to the floatline and leadline.

1987, Ludvik Karlsen, Bjorn A. Bjarnason, Small-scale Fishing with Driftnets, →ISBN, page 33:

(fishing) A weighted line for holding down the lower edge of a gillnet.


fielding circle

en-noun

fielding circle (plural fielding circles)

(cricket, in a one-day match) A line, marked on the field, consisting of two semicircles around each wicket joined by parallel lines, outside of which there may be no more than two fielders


canned heat

(professional wrestling) Pre-recorded cheering or booing played during a match.


sending off

sending off (plural sending offs or sendings off)

sending offs (plural)
sendings off (plural)

Rooney's sending off will be the main talking point, however, and his actions once again raise questions about his temperament that he looked to have gone a long way towards answering in recent times.

2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England:

(sports) An instance of a player being sent off; a dismissal from the field of play.


foul pole

(baseball) One of the two poles marking the area inside which a fair ball may be hit. It stands above a foul line.


special stage

(motor racing) A competitive section of a rally event where the goal is to cover a stretch of closed road in the shortest time.


hellman

Let the hellmen down the beach tilt against 100 yards of whitewater trying to paddle out.

1997, “Kelly's Cove is where I go to surf in the City”, in Surfer, volume 38, numbers 1-6:

Surfer magazine introduced the break to the surf world at large in early 1992, describing the dark-haired, strong-jawed Clark as a "hellman," and the " unofficial guardian of a true secret spot." As Maverick's popularity skyrocketed over the next two years, Clark remained the break's unofficial spokesman, [...]

2005, Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing, page 124:

I only got to my feet from instinct, but there I suddenly was, upright and alive, skittering in front of all that jawing mess with my little board chattering underfoot. Within three seconds I went from saving myself from certain disaster to believing I was a thirteen-year-old hellman.

2008, Tim Winton, Breath, Picador UK Paperback edition 2008, Ch.11, p.53, 54


tap and go

They grabbed an unlikely lifeline when Ben Youngs took a quick tap and go to release Foden, who jinked and dummied his way over to make it 16-5 with 23 minutes left on the clock, Wilkinson popping over the conversion for 16-7.

2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France:

(rugby) A quick free kick taken by touching the ball with the boot and running forward.


lozengy

(heraldry) Divided into or composed of rhombuses (lozenges).


holding midfielder

holding midfielder (plural holding midfielders)

After the restart, QPR holding midfielder Shaun Derry, in a rare advanced position, was inches away from connecting with a cross from Jamie Mackie, who was making his first start since he suffered a double leg break against Rovers in an FA Cup tie in January.

2011 October 15, Paul Fletcher, “QPR 1 - 1 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:

defensive midfielder
defensive midfielder


cross-shot

But the visitors halved the deficit within two minutes when Scott Sinclair burst into the area and, despite going down under Bennett's challenge, stabbed the ball across for Graham to score with a cross-shot.

2011 October 15, Graham Chase, “Norwich 3 - 1 Swansea”, in BBC Sport:

(soccer) A shot from one side of the field towards the opposite corner of the goal.

(photography) A technique for filming interactions between two people in which the camera looks alternately at one or the other person, with the focus on the person farthest from the camera.

(hunting) A shot fired at an animal that is moving across one's field of vision.


hold the ring

en-verb

hold the ring (third-person singular simple present holds the ring, present participle holding the ring, simple past and past participle held the ring)

holds the ring (present singular third-person)
holding the ring (participle present)
held the ring (participle past)
held the ring (past)

/ˈhəʊld ðə ˌɹɪŋ/

/ˈhɔʊld ðə ˌɹɪŋ/

/ˈhoʊld ðə ˌɹɪŋ/

Probably from keep the ring. In days past when spectators would encircle participants in a prizefight or a performance, people would be employed to maintain order among them and keep them from coming too near the participants.

(sports, theater, obsolete) To maintain order among spectators encircling participants in a prizefight or a performance and keep them from coming too near the participants.

(sports) Of a prizefighter: to hold one's own during a fight; to continue winning a series of fights.


kitty bar the door

They played kitty bar the door and won 1-0.

(chiefly ice hockey) Very defensively; so as to prevent opponents from scoring.


chip shot

A 45-foot chip shot on the 18th hole gave Billy Casper Jr. of Bonita, Calif., a 5-under-par 65.

1957 February 9, “Sports in Brief”, in Gettysburg Times, USA, retrieved 2011-10-17, page 5:

Woods finished on a high note when he muscled a chip shot out of the rough behind the 18th green, landed it on the fringe and got it to roll within inches of the hole.

2010 September 5, “Day takes 1-shot lead at Deutsche Bank”, in WGRZ-TV, USA, retrieved 2011-10-17:

(golf) An approach shot made from a location a short distance from the golf green in which the ball is launched into the air with only low or moderate force, so that it will land on the green and roll toward the hole.

When Ludwig Millfors lined up for a 19-yard chip shot of a field goal with three seconds left in the game, NDSU—and its 13,637 homecoming fans—had reason to feel comfortable.

1992 Oct. 11, "College Football Chip Shot Goes Wide in 2-point Bison Loss, Grand Forks Herald (USA), p. 3D (retrieved 17 Oct 2011)

A 20-yard run by quarterback Kade Harrington put them in Glander's range, and the senior kicker booted a chip-shot 30-yard field goal with 11 seconds left.

2011 October 15, Stephen Whitfield, “Kingwood beats Atascocita on last-second field goal”, in yourhoustonnews.com, USA, retrieved 2011-10-17:

(American football) A relatively easy field goal, made from a short distance.

Plantation surprised Palm Springs North early with a chip shot close to the net by Mike Noll.

1988 December 20, “Palm Springs North Wins Soccer Title”, in Miami herald, retrieved 2011-10-17, page 6C:

(soccer) A shot in which the ball is kicked from underneath with accuracy but with less than maximum force, to launch it high into the air in order either to pass it over the heads of opponents or to score a goal.

[I]n the Canadian curling championship . . . Florian scored with last rock on the first end and picked up another on the second when Ernie came up too fast on a chip shot and missed by a foot.

1962 March 8, Tom Melville, “Big Win for Saskatchewan”, in Leader Post, Canada, retrieved 2011-10-17, page 26:

(curling) A takeout shot aimed at hitting a rock at an angle.


stall handler

(horse racing) Someone responsible for manoeuvring the horse between the gates before the start of a race.

pousseur

someone responsible for manoeuvring the horse between the gates


spesmilo

(numismatics) An obsolete unit of Esperanto international currency (symbol ₷).


dodrans

(historical, numismatics) A bronze coin of the Roman Republic, worth three quarters of an as.


klet

(climbing, informal) Short for kletterschuh.


stand-off

France's own stand-in stand-off Trinh-Duc missed with a drop-goal when well set but then set off on a curving run through a scattered defensive line which carried him deep into enemy territory until Weepu's desperate tap-tackle finally brought him down.

2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:


tap-tackle

(rugby, American football) A tackle made from behind the running ball-carrier, where the tackler dives to touch the player's ankle and trips him up.


tap-tackle

tap-tackle (third-person singular simple present tap-tackles, present participle tap-tackling, simple past and past participle tap-tackled)

tap-tackles (present singular third-person)
tap-tackling (participle present)
tap-tackled (participle past)
tap-tackled (past)

Farrell drilled home a 46-metre penalty and should have had another when Pollard, attempting to jink his way out of defence, was tap-tackled by Anthony Watson and penalised for not releasing.

2019 November 2, Robert Kitson, “Rugby World Cup: South Africa surge to glory as England fall short”, in The Observer:

(rugby, American football) to tackle with a tap-tackle


jessant

From Old French gesant. Doublet of jacent.

That night she finds a locket on her pillow. Gold, in the shape of a heart, Cupids jessant round the perimeter.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 61:

(heraldry) Describing a charge which appears over, or covers, another charge as well as the field.


sub in

sub in (third-person singular simple present subs in, present participle subbing in, simple past and past participle subbed in)

subs in (present singular third-person)
subbing in (participle present)
subbed in (participle past)
subbed in (past)

As the Medford native was replacing McKennie, Shaq Moore ran off the bench to sub in for Dest. And England manager Gareth Southgate made another move while he could, Marcus Rashford for Bukayo Saka.

25 November 2022, Jonathan Tannenwald, “U.S. dominates England for long stretches, but plays to 0-0 tie at World Cup”, in The Philadeplhia Inquirer:

(especially sports) To replace something or take someone's place,


flanched

Gules, flanched ermine, on a chief azure three suns in splendour or.

1884, William Harvey, The Visitations of Bedfordshire: Annis Domini 1566, 1582, and 1634, page 99:

Fig. 58, Or, flanched gules.

1898, Edward Singleton Holden, A Primer of Heraldry for Americans, page 127:

(heraldry) Having flanches (often of a specified tincture).


melotype

(photography) A picture produced by a process in which development after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates.


chevronel

CHEVRONEL, a diminutive of chevron, and as ſuch only containing half a chevron.

1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:

(heraldry) A bearing like a chevron, but of only half its width.


ledgy

en-adj

ledgy (comparative ledgier, superlative ledgiest)

ledgier (comparative)
ledgiest (superlative)

(climbing) Containing one or more ledges


triparted

a cross triparted


outcourt

Offensive player in the middle of the outcourt receives a pass from one of his teammates.

1951, Blair Gullion, Techniques and Tactics of Basketball Defense, page 60:

For Calvin it was Rog Postmus with 18, mostly from outcourt, Duane Rosendahl with 16, Stu Sisco with 15, and Preston "Butts" Kool had 10.

1992, Gordon M. Brewer, --But how You Played the Game!: 1862-1955, page 169:

[…] shows that all shots are taken from outcourt, this is not necessarily true because it is possible, by reversing direction, for the dribbler to catch his guard overplaying him and drive in for a layup.

1970, William Albert Healey, Joseph W. Hartley, Ten Great Basketball Offenses, page 132:

(basketball, handball) The other half of the court from the goal one is aiming for.


outcourt

Special mention is due Abadie, 03, Heyman, 04, whose outcourt playing is excellent, and Roos, '04, who has shown good judgment in placing the ball.

1883, “College Sports”, in The Occident, page 244:

The middle man normally will be the outcourt defensive man, away from the rebound.

1969, Robert J. Buck, The Shuffle and Press Offense for High School Basketball, page 29:

It should also be remembered that the outcourt shots are all taken from behind the screen.

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team.

2018, Ace Banking And Static Awareness, page 273:

(basketball, handball) Playing or played on the outcourt.


outcourt

Many coaches are of the opinion that high school teams attempt too many rebound shots but would profit by dribbling or passing the ball outcourt more often and starting their offensive attack over again.

1946, Athletic Journal - Volume 27, page 22:

Jack felt a warm glow of pride as he watched his brother smoothly carry the ball outcourt and then turn to drive in with flashing legs and lace the leather through the net.

1953, Leon E. Burgoyne, Jack Davis, Forward, page 52:


underpull

Higher the climb followed the line of least resistance up a succession of slabs, flakes, and cracks, where the ordinary hold was an underpull for the hands and friction for the feet.

1912, Harold Spender, In Praise of Switzerland, page 158:

Using the icicle as an underpull, I chipped a good jug over the top and made two footholds on the steep slab.

1971, Don Whillans, Alick Ormerod, Don Whillans: Portrait of a Mountaineer, page 184:

(climbing) A handhold that allows one to pull oneself up from below.


scuffball

(baseball) An illegal pitch where the baseball has been altered using sandpaper or a similar tool to modify its spin.


side netting

Paul Robinson produced a spectacular full-stretch stop to deny David Fox his first goal of the season from 25 yards before Elliott Bennett fired into the side netting when he should have done much better from eight yards.

2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:

(soccer) Alternative form of side-netting


top flight

The visitors had not managed an away win in the top flight since the final day of last season, but Mauro Formica set the tone in the second minute with a rasping 25-yard drive which flew narrowly wide.

No team in Spain’s top flight has ever won more points after 13 games. And so a word is increasingly being used: Leicester[.]

2023 November 13, Sid Lowe, “Girona and their boy from the barrio hit new heights on top of La Liga”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(sports) The highest league or division.


skittle out

en-verb

skittle out (third-person singular simple present skittles out, present participle skittling out, simple past and past participle skittled out)

skittles out (present singular third-person)
skittling out (participle present)
skittled out (participle past)
skittled out (past)

(cricket, transitive) To dismiss (batsmen) quickly.


unguled

Supporters, dexter, a unicorn ar. armed, maned, and unguled or; sinister, a lion, gu. Motto, In te Domine speravi, In thee , 0 Lord , have I put my trust.

1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 9:

Supporters - Two pegasi, ermine, winged, bridled, crined, and unguled, or, each charged on the shoulder with a fleur de lis, azure. Motto - Virtute, non verbis.

1846, William Skey, The Heraldic Calendar: A List of the Nobility and Gentry Whose Arms are Registered, and Pedigrees Recorded in the Herald's Office in Ireland, page 46:

Argent, three roebucks passant regardant gules, attired and unguled sable. Crest - On a wreath of the colours, a demi-roebuck gules, attired and unguled sable.

1915, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms: A Complete Encyclopædia of All Royal, Territorial, Municipal, Corporate, Official, and Impersonal Arms, London : T.C. & E.C. Jack, page 430:

(heraldry) Having hoofs of a tincture different from the body.


outground

(cricket) Alternative spelling of out ground


fructed

Derived from Latin frūctus (“fruit”) + -ed.

Coordinate term: fruitagée

He beareth, Argent, on a Mount in a Base, a Pine Apple tree, fructed, Proper, by the name of Pine.

1660, John Guillim, Francis Nower, A Display of Heraldie, page 131:

HASKELL, on a mount, an apple-tree fructed, ppr. pl. 94, n. 33.

1851, John Peter Elven, The book of family crests, page 229:

A dexter Cubit arm, couped, vested sable, cuffed or, charged with a Cross paté of the last, holding in the hand an Oak branch fructed all proper

1870-1881, John Edwin Cussans, History of Hertfordshire:

(heraldry, of a tree or plant) Bearing fruit or acorns.


unlap

unlap (third-person singular simple present unlaps, present participle unlapping, simple past and past participle unlapped)

unlaps (present singular third-person)
unlapping (participle present)
unlapped (participle past)
unlapped (past)

(intransitive, usually reflexive, motor racing) To overtake the leader in a race in order to no longer be lapped (one or more complete laps behind the leader).


undé

The achievement of the Lord Maderty is, or, three bars undé gules, and, on a canton argent, a lion's head erased, within a double tressure counter-flowered gules;[…]

1804, Alexander Nisbet, A system of heraldry, page 66:

Argent, a fesse undé gules; […]

1898, Edward Singleton Holden, A Primer of Heraldry for Americans, page 109:

(heraldry) Waving or wavy; applied to ordinaries, or division lines.


fiants

Borrowed from French fientes, plural of fiente (“dung”).

[If] they aske him how hee calleth the ordure of an Hart, Raindeare, Gote, or fallow Deare, he shall answere that they are to be called the fewmet or fewmishings[…]Of other vermine or stinking chases, as Foxes, Badgers and such like, they are called the feance[…]

1575, Jacques du Fouilloux, translated by George Gascoigne, The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. […], London: […] Thomas Purfoot, published 1611, →OCLC, pages 97-98:

[Badgers] cast their fiants longer somewhat like a Fox[…]

1575, Jacques du Fouilloux, “Of the nature and properties of a Foxe and a Badgerd. Chap. 66”, in George Gascoigne, transl., The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. […], London: […] Thomas Purfoot, published 1611, →OCLC, page 184:

A man may know a dogge-wolfe from a bitch[…]the Bitche casteth hyr fiants commonly in the middest of an high way, whereas the dog casteth them on the one or other side of the path.

1575, Jacques du Fouilloux, “How to hunt them [wolves]. Chap. 76”, in George Gascoigne, transl., The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. […], London: […] Thomas Purfoot, published 1611, →OCLC, pages 215-6:

[…]a Deeres Fewmets, a Bore, or Beares Leasses, a Hare or Conneys Crottores, a Foxe or a Badgers Feance, and an Otters aintes[…]

1630, John Taylor, “The Huntsmans-SHIP; or Woodman-SHIP, with her Squadron or Regiment”, in All the vvorkes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet […] , page 93:

And these sort of Badgers where they have their Earths, use to cast their Fiants or Dung in a small hole, and cover it, whereas the Dog-Badgers make their Fiants at a good distance from their Burrows, which are deep, with variety of Chambers, Holes and Angles.

1686, Richard Blome, “Hunting, part III, chapter XI, Hunting the BADGER.”, in The gentlemans recreation, page 89:

He seldom travels above a mile or two from home, and generally to open pastures, and feeding grounds, in which the dung of the Cattle being turned over, is a sign the Badger has been there; or when heaps of moss appear collected in Cover, the fiants of the Animal being also observed.

1818, John Lawrence, British Field Sports: Embracing Practical Instructions in Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Racing, Cocking, Fishing, &c., page 448:

(obsolete, hunting) The dung of the wolf, fox or badger.


tenné

tenné:

(heraldry) A rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown.


tenné

Arms : Quarterly of eight , I or a lion rampant tenné, on a chief sable three escallops or, 2 azure a tower domed argent, 3 barry or and gules,[…]

1985, Stained Glass Before 1700 in American Collections: Corpus Vitrearum Checklist:


viroled

Az., a saltire or, in base a hunting-horn arg., viroled vert and stringed of the second, on a chief of the third a buckle in pale of the field between two cushions gu. COLLOW OF AUCHENCHEYNE (1773).

1893, James Balfour Paul, An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, page 200:

(heraldry) Furnished with viroles; said of a horn or bugle whose rings are of different tincture.


single curve

(metalworking, manufacturing) A three-dimensional shape into which a thin flat sheet of material, e.g. metal, can be formed by bending alone, without stretching or compression.


chickenhead

I'd been used to a lot of jawns following me around from when I first got out there on the rap scene. They were usually chickenhead skanks attracted to the gangsta culture who would lick and suck and fuck any and everything you wanted them to. Four and five times, if you told them to.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 261:

(slang, hip-hop, derogatory) A woman who readily performs fellatio.

(climbing) A bulbous protrusion on a rock face easily grabbed, stepped on, or tied off on when climbing.


compound curve

(metalworking, manufacturing) A three-dimensional shape into which a thin flat sheet of material, e.g. metal, can be formed by operations that must include stretching and/or compression, in addition to bending.


center spot

(sports) In various sports, a visible or non-visible spot at the center of the playing surface.


woolpack

From Middle English wolpak, wullepak, equivalent to wool + pack.

(heraldry) A charge resembling a pillow or cushion.


filanders

French filandres, from Latin filum (“thread”).

(falconry, obsolete) A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small thread-like worms and of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein.


virole

From French virole (“ferrule”). See ferrule.

[…] except when he has a hood, bells, virols, or rings, and leashes, in which case he is said to be hooded, belled, jessed, and leashed; […]

1836, Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford, The Popular Encyclopedia;: pt. 1: England-Germany (literature and science), page 698:

The Florentine GUICCIARDINI bore : Azure, three hunting-horns argent, the mouth-pieces and viroles or, banded gules. Gules, three trumpets fessways in pale argent, is the canting coat of CALL (Baronets).

1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 386:

Viroled- (vi-rold') Furnished with a virole or viroles. Said of a bugle or horn when borne with rings of a different tincture from the bugle itself.

1908, Arthur Francis Pimbley, Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry: Together with an Illustrated Supplement, page 67:

(heraldry) A ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.


find the net

find the net (third-person singular simple present finds the net, present participle finding the net, simple past and past participle found the net)

finds the net (present singular third-person)
finding the net (participle present)
found the net (participle past)
found the net (past)

It is testimony to QPR's spirit then that it was they who next found the net as Bothroyd's goalbound header from an Armand Traore cross ultimately found the net courtesy of the back of Helguson, who was on the goalline but - despite the protestations of a number of City players - not offside.

2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:


inside-out

...cracking an ‘inside-out’ backhand past Rahim on the set point...

1977 March 15, The Washington Post, page D5:

Kyrgios hits a thumping inside-out forehand to Raonic's weaker wing, the backhand.

2014 July 2, The Daily Telegraph, Sports Sect., p. 6

(tennis) Describing cross-court shots made by the unexpected hand, as of a backhand return of a ball struck to the player's forehand.

inversus

with the inside turned to be on the outside


enfiled

(heraldry) Having some object, such as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it.


fitchy

From French fiché, past participle of ficher (“to fasten”), Old French fichier (“to pierce”). Compare fish.

(heraldry) Sharpened to a point; pointed.


backfall

(wrestling) A fall or throw on the back.


assistless

en-adj

assistless (comparative more assistless, superlative most assistless)

more assistless (comparative)
most assistless (superlative)


water stop

Following the Yankee Homecoming road race each year, his shop's small parking lot is the scene of a neighborhood celebration. “I'm an official water stop for the road race,” Boothroyd shares."I love being here."

2014, Kathleen M. Downey, Legendary Locals of Newburyport, page 73:

(sports) A place where an athlete can take a break and drink water.


inturn

From Middle English inturn, intorn, equivalent to in- + turn.

(wrestling) A move where the wrestler puts his thigh between the tights of his opponent, and lifts him up.


rustre

(heraldry) A lozenge with a smaller round hole in the centre, showing the field (rarely used).


countersalient

(heraldry) Leaping in opposite directions (as if past or away from each other); said of two figures on a coat of arms.


anserated

Perhaps related to serrated because the ends are often also parted (to terminate in two animal heads, as with a cross gringolée).

an anserated cross

(heraldry, uncommon) Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.


wolfsangel

From German Wolfsangel (literally “wolf hook”).

bor

(heraldry, symbology) A Z-shaped symbol, reminiscent of the Germanic wolf hook hunting device


gyronny

(heraldry, of an escutcheon) Covered with gyrons, or divided into several gyrons, typically eight.


opinicus

Coordinate term: griffin

Two opinici vert, beaked sable, wings gules, support the insignia of the Plasterers’ Company.

1847, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, Oxford: John Henry Parker, page 233:

Urcheons, bagwyns, opinici and musimons, represented statant, sejant or segreant, and in every variety of metal, colour and fur, completed an exhibition which was both boastfully heraldic and pompously powerful.

No blood need be shed in settling these anatomical problems, as opinici are of little importance, there being barely a dozen examples.

1963, Julian Franklyn, Shield and Crest: An Account of the Art and Science of Heraldry, page 150:

Even when they ascend to the loftiest perch for their kind and earn the right to serve on the Council of Keythongs, the wingless ones are still not permitted the same rights as gryphons and opinici.

2019, Paula Grover, The Gryphon, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 22:

(heraldry) A heraldic imaginary creature with an eagle's head, a short tail, and sometimes wings.


hand bridge

(billiards) a player's front hand formed to position their cue while making a shot


resthold

(wrestling) a light hold used to regain energy during a match


safety call

(billiards) A type of called shot where a shooting player does not have to continue their turn after pocketing one or more of their balls.


jabroni

ECW
Hulk Hogan
Iron Sheik
Scott Hall
Steve Austin
Thomas Happer Taylor
WCW

According to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who popularized the term, he borrowed jabroni from the Iron Sheik, who used the word backstage.
Prior to jabroni being popularized by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, the term had also been used by Scott Hall, Hulk Hogan, and other members of WCW and Steve Austin while in ECW.
Jabroni is a specialized rendition of the wrestling term jobber (“one who loses to make other wrestlers look better”). It is perhaps a humorous pseudo-Italianized form of it (see popular Italian words in American lexicon, e.g. macaroni, pepperoni, Zamboni), but compare American slang/dialectal jaboney (“naive person, immigrant, hoodlum, fool”) (first attested in c. 1990), of unclear origin. Surmised in a 1994 Los Angeles Times article to be from Italian-American slang Italian giabone (“self-important fool”), from Piedmontese giambone, from dialectal giambon (“ham (bone)”). Ultimately from French jambon (“ham”), and first attested by Thomas Happer Taylor in his 1967 novel A-18, although claims of hearing the term date to at least c. 1953.
It may also be derived from Italian caprone (“stupid person”, literally “goat”).

der+

Get out of this, uh, jabroni outfit.

1999, Matthew Moore, Lords of the Lockerroom, spoken by Mark Wolff (Mark Wolff), Can-Am Productions:

A jobber—also known as jabroni, extra, and enhancement talent—is playing the part of getting beat all the time.

2004, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan with Steve Anderson, Chair Shots and Other Obstacles: Winning Life's Wrestling Matches, →ISBN, page 148:

(professional wrestling slang) A performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent.


nebulated

en-adj

nebulated (comparative more nebulated, superlative most nebulated)

more nebulated (comparative)
most nebulated (superlative)


foreshot

Foreshots knock the ball forward.

(chiefly sports) A shot that sends something forewards, such as a shot that sends the ball ahead the player making it.

It was obviously an Aspen Valley resident because she recognised the stabling in the background, but the tall dark bay horse in the foreshot didn't look familiar.

2013, Hannah Hooton, Giving Chase, →ISBN, page 122:

(photography or cinematography) The foreground of a photographic image.


mountain biking

(sports) Off-road cycling using a mountain bike.