lead off

Jones has been the team's lead off hitter for three years.

(baseball) The first batter in the batting order.

The lead off hitter for the sixth inning is Jones.

(baseball) The first batter of an inning.

(baseball) The short distance that a player stands away from their current base.


lead off

en-verb

lead off (third-person singular simple present leads off, present participle leading off, simple past and past participle led off)

leads off (present singular third-person)
leading off (participle present)
led off (participle past)
led off (past)

Jones led off the inning with a home run.

Jones is leading off an inning for the third time in the game.

(baseball) To be the first batter of an inning.


synchro

en-noun

synchro (countable and uncountable, plural synchros)

Abbreviation of synchronization or synchronized.

abbreviation of

Patrick Borkowski develops strength and conditioning programs for acrobatic and combat sports, including synchro, at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.

2007 August 21, Aimee Berg, “In Unsteady Waters, a Solid Foundation”, in New York Times:

synchronized swimming
synchronized swimming

(sports, informal) Clipping of synchronized.; Any synchronized event, such as synchronized swimming


nubber

(baseball) A batted ball that travels slowly and not very far.


bases loaded

He's had four hits this week with the bases loaded.

(baseball) Having a baserunner on first base, second base, and third base at the same time.


no room at the inn

From the Biblical story of the birth of Jesus (Luke 2).

The pitcher is struggling to throw strikes but there's no room at the inn.

(baseball, used by play-by-play announcers) A situation in which an ineffective pitcher is pitching with the bases loaded.


station-to-station

A strategy in which a team attempts to score runs by stealing bases, bunting, sacrificing, hitting singles and adopting hit-and-run plays; inside baseball or small ball.

A strategy in which a team attempts to score runs by eschewing the stolen base and small ball, instead allowing baserunners to advance only on hits or other balls in play.


cornerman

(boxing) A coach, trainer or other assistant who attends to a boxer between rounds.

(basketball) A player who can play both the small forward and power forward positions.


bal-chatri

From Hindi बाल छतरी (bāl chatrī), from बाल (bāl, “child”) + छतरी (chatrī, “umbrella”) meaning "small umbrella", because of its shape.

com

(falconry) A trap for catching hunting birds, consisting of a cage with bait and a slip noose.


infield shift

From infield and shift.
Originally called the Williams shift or Boudreau shift, respectively named for Ted Williams and Lou Boudreau, and first used during the 1946 World Series by St. Louis Cardinals manager Eddie Dyer as a defensive gimmick. In the late 1990s, the strategy was revived, using the more generic infield shift, which has been used exclusively since then.

(baseball) A defensive alignment in which the third baseman, shortstop and second baseman positionally shift to their left when a left-handed batter is in the batter's box. Used primarily when the batter is an extreme pull hitter.


DIPS

(baseball) Initialism of defense-independent pitching statistics.


basket toss

(cheerleading) A stunt in which three or more bases toss a flyer into the air.


extra inning

We'll have to play another extra inning in this game.

(baseball, usually in the plural) An additional inning of play required to break a tie.


double steal

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The team is known to try the double steal because it has so many speedsters.

(baseball) A situation in which two baserunners attempt to steal a base simultaneously. This is usually called by the manager when there are runners on first base and second base.

This pair have seven double steals this season.

(baseball) The successful completion of a double steal.


defense-independent pitching statistics

en-noun

defense-independent pitching statistics pl (plural only)

(baseball) A measure of a pitcher's effectiveness based only on plays that do not involve fielders. Originally included only hit-by-pitch, walks, strikeouts, and home runs allowed, but more recently incorporates fly ball percentage, ground ball percentage, and line drive percentage.


throw smoke

en-verb

throw smoke (third-person singular simple present throws smoke, present participle throwing smoke, simple past threw smoke, past participle thrown smoke)

throws smoke (present singular third-person)
throwing smoke (participle present)
threw smoke (past)
thrown smoke (participle past)

He has been throwing smoke all game.

(baseball, slang, intransitive) To consistently pitch fastballs that are difficult to hit.


NCA

(cheerleading) Initialism of National Cheerleaders Association.


herkie

From Herkimer + -ie, after Lawrence R. Herkimer, founder of the NCA.

(cheerleading) A jump with one leg straight out to the side and the other bent flat beneath the body.


creance

From Middle English creaunce, from Old French creance. See credence.

Even as horses led by hand doe sometimes bound and start out of the way, but no further then their halters length, and neverthelesse follow ever his steps that leadeth them; And as a Hawke takes his flight but under the limits of hir cranes or twyne.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.12:

(falconry) A long leash, or lightweight cord used to prevent escape of a hawk during training flights.


OPS

on-base plus slugging
on-base plus slugging#English

(baseball) Initialism of on-base plus slugging.


on-base plus slugging

(baseball) A metric used to evaluate the effectiveness of a hitter; the sum of on-base percentage and slugging percentage.


on-base percentage

en-noun

on-base percentage (plural on-base percentages)

(baseball) The frequency with which a hitter successfully reaches first base.


hitter's count

The runners will be going on the hitter's count.

(baseball) A count favourable to the batter, in which there are more balls than strikes, especially a 3-0, 3-1, or 2-0 count.


stickwork

Her impressive stickwork led to three goals.

(sports) Use of the stick in lacrosse, hockey, etc.


face off

(sports, chiefly ice hockey) The starting point in a match of ice hockey, where two players face each other to snatch the puck.


Paralympic

/ˌpæɹəˈlɪmpɪk/

/ˌpæɹəˈlɪmpɪk/

Blend of paraplegic + Olympic; the Paralympic Games were originally organized for persons with paraplegia from spinal injuries, but are now participated in by sportspersons with all kinds of disabilities.

(sports) Pertaining to the Paralympic Games.


sidearmer

Like other sidearmers, O’Day found salvation out of desperation.

2009 March 19, Ben rShpigel, “Medicine’s Loss Could Be the Mets’ Gain”, in New York Times:

(baseball) One who throws with arm roughly parallel to the ground.


corded

CORDED : Bound round with cord, - as, a Bale gules, corded or.

1893, John Edwin Cussans, Handbook of Heraldry: With Instructions for Tracing Pedigrees and Deciphering Ancient Mss., Rules for the Appointment of Liveries, &c, page 128:

Sable, two bars argent, corded or wreathed gules - WAYE, Devonshire, confirmed 1574.

1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 132:

(heraldry) Wound about with a cord or cords of a specified tincture.


outslug

en-verb

outslug (third-person singular simple present outslugs, present participle outslugging, simple past and past participle outslugged)

outslugs (present singular third-person)
outslugging (participle present)
outslugged (participle past)
outslugged (past)

(transitive, baseball) To score more runs than.


mandritta

(fencing) A blow from the right side to the left.


supermoto

en-noun

supermoto (countable and uncountable, plural supermotos)

(sports, uncountable) A hybrid of motocross and road racing.


butt joint

Using the lap joint in any of its applications provides strength in a cabinet where a butt joint would or could be used.

1990, Byron W. Maguire, Cabinetmaking: From Design to Finish, Carlsbad, CA: Craftsman, page 234:

(construction, woodworking) A joint formed by adjacent, separate section of material, such as where two neighboring pieces of insulation abut.


greenkeeper

(golf) An employee responsible for the maintenance of a golf course.


beartrap

(hunting) A large trap used to catch a bear or other mammal, usually as a foot trap.


stop down

en-verb

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

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

The f/stops are arranged so that as you stop down, each stop allows half the amount of light to pass through as the stop before it did.

1982, Marvin J. Rosen, Introduction to photography: a self-directing approach, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 71:

To get an image with a larger “depth of field”—ie, where more of the distant objects as well as the nearer ones in a scene are in focus—the photographer must “stop down” the aperture of the lens, restricting the amount of light admitted.

2002 December 12, “Images from a blurred world”, in The Economist, retrieved 2009-04-03:

(photography) To decrease the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a lower number to an f/stop represented by a higher number.


bleu, blanc et rouge

bleu (canonical)
blanc (canonical)
et rouge (canonical)

From French bleu, blanc et rouge (literally “blue, white and red”).

der

Nashville Predators Voice Pete Weber says of hockey's bleu, blanc et rouge, “Montreal Canadiens fans care too much.”

2012, Curt Smith, Mercy!: A Celebration of Fenway Park's Centennial Told Through Red Sox Radio and TV:

Hitting the NHL during the 1985–86 season, he not only debuted in the famed bleu, blanc, et rouge but guided the squad to Lord Stanley's Cup.

2015, Jon Waldman, He Shoots, He Saves: The Story of Hockey's Collectable Treasures:

(Quebec, ice hockey) The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club.


shutter speed

en-noun

shutter speed (countable and uncountable, plural shutter speeds)

Shutter speeds are usually measured in seconds or fractions of a second, and are typically arranged in a sequence that includes 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250 and 1/500.

1993 November 21, Charles Hagen, “CAMERA: For Film Exposure, Timing Is the Key”, in New York Times, retrieved 2009-04-04:

(photography) The duration of time for which the shutter of a camera remains open when exposing photographic film or other photosensitive material to light for the purpose of recording an image.

快門速度

time during which the shutter of a camera remains open


Queer Street

In any event, the German slugger nailed down 21 of his 39 victories by putting his opponent on Queer Street via the knockout route.

1957 August 10, “Cronin's Corner”, in Los Angeles Times:

Frazier had him on Queer Street in the 11th round. ... He was glad he got off Queer Street.

1971 March 9, “In the Wake of the News”, in Chicago Tribune:

(idiomatic, boxing) A stunned condition.


on the bounce

A tough openeing to our Kettering Area Division 4 season, with going out of the cup in the first round, and three straight losses on the bounce.

2001 October 8, "Popey", “Sunday League Footie”, in alt.sports.soccer.everton (Usenet):

After those eleven wins on the bounce, it’s desperately disappointing, but Ellison doesn’t seem too down when I find him back on Katana.

2003, Matthew Symonds, Larry Ellison, Softwar, →ISBN, page 462:

Two wins on the bounce. It obviously wasn't luck last week.

2007, Neil Boulton, Vamos! the Avon Plate Story, →ISBN, page 33:

(British, idiomatic, informal, chiefly sports) consecutively, in succession


BIF

(photography) Initialism of bird in flight.


foot trap

(soccer) The use of the bottom of the foot to control a rolling or low bouncing ball.


left-handed specialist

left-handed specialist (plural left-handed specialists)

(baseball) A left-handed relief pitcher who specializes in getting left-handed or poor right-handed switch batters out .


yakker

Said to be from the flight path of the yawker bird.https://www.si.com/mlb/2017/05/23/curveball-clayton-kershaw-lance-mccullers

(baseball, slang) A curveball or slider.


beat out

en-verb

beat out (third-person singular simple present beats out, present participle beating out, simple past beat out, past participle beaten out or beat out)

beats out (present singular third-person)
beating out (participle present)
beat out (past)
beaten out (participle past)
beat out (participle past)

I then made another ſign that I wanted Drink. They found by my eating, that a ſmall Quantity would not ſuffice me, and being a moſt ingenious People, they flung up with great dexterity one of their largeſt Hogſheads, then rolled it towards my Hand, and beat out the top; I drank it off at a Draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint, and taſted like a ſmall Wine of Burgundy, but much more delicious.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 13:

(baseball, of a runner) To reach base after a bunt or groundball.


corner infielder

en-noun

corner infielder (plural corner infielders)

(baseball) A player whose fielding position is in the corner infield (first base or third base).


middle infielder

middle infielder (plural middle infielders)

(baseball) A player whose fielding position is in the middle infield (the second baseman and shortstop).


corner infield

(baseball) The portion of the infield consisting of first base and third base.


middle infield

(baseball) The fielders near second base: the second baseman and shortstop.

(baseball) The portion of the infield consisting of second base and home plate, including the catcher, second baseman, and shortstop.


pitcher's count

pitcher's count (plural pitcher's counts)

The infield defence has moved to double play depth on the pitcher's count.

(baseball) A count favourable to the pitcher, usually with two strikes; a 1-2, 0-2, or 0-1 count.


upper cut

(boxing) Alternative spelling of uppercut


stound

From Middle English stond, stounde, stound (“hour, time, season, moment”), from Old English stund (“a period of time, while, hour, occasion”), from Proto-West Germanic *stundu, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”). Cognate with Dutch stond (“hour, time, moment”), German Stunde (“hour”), Danish stund (“time, while”), and Swedish stund (“time, while”). Compare Middle English stunden (“to linger, stay, remain for a while”), Icelandic stunda (“to frequent, pursue”). Related to stand.

cog

What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound

1765, Percy's Reliques, The King and the Tanner of Tamworth (original license: 1564)

(chronology, obsolete or dialectal) An hour.


STL

(sports) Abbreviation of St. Louis. (Saint Louis)


KERS

(sports, automotive) Acronym of kinetic energy recovery system. — an electric generation, storage, and propulsion system used in Formula One, which generates electricity during slow down, stores energy in batteries, and boosts acceleration with electric drive motors assisting the gasoline engine.


tpi

(cycling) Initialism of threads per inch — a measure of the density of threads in screwable parts (e.g. bottom brackets).


gym bunny

Unlike sex with a Leatherman or a Sugar Daddy, when you have sex with a Gym Bunny, you will probably have to keep reminding yourself that there are actually two people present. …The GB spends just about all of his spare time sculpting his ever-more-fabulous body, and just about all of his spare income on ever-more-skimpy gym outfits.

2002, Dan Anderson, Sex Tips for Gay Guys, →ISBN, pages 129, 130:

"...this scrap heap of a gym bunny you don't want to sit too close to before she showers is a TV goddess?"

2006, Catherine Coulter, Born to Be Wild, →ISBN, page 243:

Thus the lithe and slightly feminised John Travolta of Saturday Night Fever is transformed into the pumping, grinding-body-obsessed gym bunny of Staying Alive.

2006, Tim Edwards, Cultures of Masculinity, →ISBN, page 137:

Being a gym bunny is simply unbecoming. Not as unbecoming, perhaps, as the bicycle bunnies, with their helmet hair, their strangely padded Lycras that suggest a degree of sexual depravity and those ridiculous clacky shoes. But we’re not very pleasing to behold.

2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times:

(colloquial, bodybuilding) A person who spends a large amount of time working out at a gym and who wants to improve his or her physique.


death rattle

(cricket, by extension) The sound of a batsman’s stumps being broken, so called because this leads to the batsman’s dismissal.


Blue Jay

He is the only Blue Jay at the All-Star game this year.

(baseball) A player for the Toronto Blue Jays.


Blue Jays

The Blue Jays lead the game going into the ninth inning.

(baseball) The team Philadelphia Blue Jays, a short-lived and disused name for the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1940s.


Orioles

The Orioles have rallied to tie the game.


on the clock

With only three seconds on the clock and the Knicks about to win, 102-96, in their playoff opener against the Philadelphia 76ers at Madison Square Garden last night, Rick Pitino enjoyed the moment.

1989 April 28, Dave Anderson, “Sports of the Times: Jackson Hits 'Biggest Shot Of My Life'”, in New York Times, retrieved 2009-04-20:

(sports) In the official time remaining in a game or other sporting event.

There were 26 minutes on the clock before Scotland had their first real opportunity.

2007 August 22, “Scotland 1-0 South Africa: Boyd saves blushes”, in ESPN, retrieved 2009-04-20:

(sports) In the official time expired in a game or other sporting event.


place kick

(soccer, rugby) A kick in which the ball is placed, at rest, on the ground or on a small tee


long ball

Welsh nerves continued to jangle as Blake let a long ball bounce over his head and only Wayne Hennessey's swift advance from his line prevented Mirko Vucinic sneaking in.

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

(soccer) A kick in which the ball is kicked over the heads of other players into an empty space, into which an attacker is moving.

In the first group game, they played long ball against Sweden, who knew the English game, and so were hardly likely to be caught off-guard by direct play.

2013 October 24, Alex Ferguson, ALEX FERGUSON: My Autobiography: The Sensational Million Copy Number One Bestseller, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

Sometimes, a team will use a long-ball strategy to move the ball. In this strategy, a defender will kick the ball in a long pass, far up the field, to the striker or other forward.

2018 July 15, Cathleen Small, Soccer, Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP, →ISBN:

Graham Taylor, usually cast as a regressive long-ball manager, understood the error.

2022 October 27, Paul Hayward, England Football: The Biography: 1872 - 2022, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

(soccer, usually attributive) A strategy focused on sending the ball upfield directly to the striker, especially one with few other tactical innovations.

In the 1970s Seaver knew that batters could connect for a long ball at almost any time, so he had to be able to reach back and strike a hitter out if necessary.

2007, Gary Gillette, Pete Palmer, The 2007 Espn Baseball Encyclopedia, 4th edition, Sterling Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 1038:

He could run a team, tough as nails, shoot the long ball; he had great instincts and feel for the game.

2011, Chris Herren, Bill Reynolds, Basketball Junkie: A Memoir, Macmillan, →ISBN:


acutance

en-noun

acutance (countable and uncountable, plural acutances)

(photography) Edge contrast in an image; a component of sharpness.


lampworker

(glassblowing) Someone who works with lampwork


marver

(glassblowing) A flat heatproof surface on which a gather of glass is rolled into shape.


mashie niblick

(golf, dated) A metal-headed golf club with a moderate loft. The equivalent of a 7-iron in a modern set of clubs.


mid-mashie

(golf, dated) A metal-headed golf club, the equivalent of a 3-iron in a modern set of clubs.


pontil

(glassblowing) Alternative form of punty (“rod used in glassblowing”)


mascle

From Middle English mascle, maskel, from Old French mascle, macle, from Medieval Latin mascula, from a Germanic source (compare English mesh). Doublet of mail.

(heraldry) A lozenge with a smaller lozenge-shaped hole in the centre.


punty

1662, from French pontil, from Italian pontello or puntello, diminutive of punto, from Latin punctum (“a point”). Doublet of puntillo and pointel.

(glassblowing) A metal rod used in the glassblowing process. After a glass vessel has been blown to approximate size and the bottom of the piece has been finalized, the rod, which is tipped with a wad of hot glass, is attached to the bottom of the vessel to hold it while the top is finalized. It often leaves an irregular or ring-shaped scar on the base when removed, called the pontil mark.


slurve

Of the 90 pitches he threw, Igawa, who relies on a slurve, fastball and changeup, never unleashed one that traveled faster than 91 miles per hour.

2008 June 20, Rainer Sabin, “Igawa Searching for a Way Back to New York”, in New York Times:

(baseball) A pitch in which the pitcher throws a slider as if he or she were throwing a curve ball.


goalball

goalball (countable and uncountable, plural goalballs)

And a blind athlete, Qasim Muttar, who was a promising player of goalball — soccer played with a ball that contains bells — died after being run over by an American convoy while crossing a street.

2008 June 29, Andrew E. Kramer, “Athletes Disabled by Wars Lead Iraqi Team in World Games”, in New York Times:

(disability, sports) A ball game, designed for the blind, in which teams of three players attempt to throw a ball with bells embedded in it into the opposing goal.


head fake

An effective speed rush will often involve a head fake by the pass rusher. To execute a head fake, the defender takes an aggressive step at the blocker or to the inside or outside of the blocker.

2008, Ron Vanderlinden, Football's Eagle & Stack Defenses, Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 158:

(sports) A player's movement of the head as if to change direction, hoping to mislead pursuers.


bokeh

bokeh (usually uncountable, plural bokehs)

From Japanese 暈け (boke, “blur”), the nominalized form of 暈ける (bokeru, “to blur (intransitive)”).
The terminal -h, absent in the romanization boke, is a pronunciation guide so that it is not pronounced as /boʊk/ as it would be under standard English orthography. Contrast karate and karaoke, which have undergone sound changes.
The term has been used since at least 1996, with the spelling bokeh introduced by editor Mike Johnston in the March–April 1997 issue of Photo Techniques magazine, Johnston writing “it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth, with equal stress on either syllable”.

The quality of the out-of-focus area in a wide-aperture image is called bokeh, originally from the Japanese word boke, pronounced bo-keh, which means fuzzy. In photography, bokeh reflects the shape and number of diaphragm blades in the lens, and that determines, in part, the way that out-of-focus points of light are rendered in the image. Bokeh is also a result of spherical aberration that affects how the light is collected. Although subject to controversy, photographers often judge bokeh as being either good or bad. Good bokeh renders the out-of-focus areas as smooth, uniform, and generally circular shapes with nicely blurred edges. Bad bokeh, on the other hand, renders out-of-focus areas with polygonal shapes, hard edges, and with illumination that creates a brighter area at the outside of the disk shape.

2010, Charlotte K. Lowrie, “Exploring Canon Lenses and Accessories”, in Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Digital Field Guide, Indianapolis, Ind.: Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 186:

Shooting with natural light, I used a long lens (200mm) to compress the space and slightly blur the background by photographing at a large open aperture (f/2.5). This resulted in gorgeous bokeh, putting the city into a blur while keeping the couple razor sharp.

2014, Bob Davis, Dawn Davis, “Blackhawks Fans: The Back Story, Posing, Lighting and Lens Selection, Colleagues”, in We’re Engaged!: Photographing Vibrant and Joyful Portraits of the Happy Couple, Buffalo, N.Y.: Amherst Media, →ISBN, pages 102–103:

More expensive lenses usually go down to f/2.8, letting you shoot at faster shutter speeds and get great, creamy bokeh in your background.

2014, Krista Smith, “What You Need”, in The Right Light: Photographing Children and Families Using Natural Light, Buffalo, N.Y.: Amherst Media, →ISBN, page 13:

(photography) A subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of an image projected by a camera lens.


ringette

Sam Jacks, the inventor of ringette and floor hockey, and Robert Steadward, whose efforts spearheaded the growth of Paralympic sports, are being inducted in the builder category.

2007 May 9, The Associated Press, “Sports Briefing”, in New York Times:

(sports) A team sport played on ice on skates and primarily by women, the players using sticks to control a rubber ring and attempting to score goals by landing it in the opponents' net.


retrait

KETHEL in Holland uses, Azure, a pale retrait in chief (i.e., a demi-pal) soutenu by a chevron between three cauldrons or.

1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 121:

The blazon : Arms : Per Saltire Gules and Or in fess two pellets pierced and in pale many plates also pierced on a chief Argent issuant as in chief seven pallets retrait two three and two Sable.

The upper margin is bordered by a low quality frieze bearing the coat of arms of Pope Gregory XV (r. 1621-1623) : gules, three bendlets retrait per fess […]

2010, Elena De Laurentiis, The Lost Manuscripts from the Sistine Chapel: An Epic Journey from Rome to Toledo:

(heraldry, rare) Not shown in full, but cut off at point it touches the edge of the shield, an ordinary, etc, as if retreating or withdrawn into that edge, ordinary, etc. (Compare issuant, naissant.)


fourball

fourball (countable and uncountable, plural fourballs)

The United States pitched a shutout in five alternate-shot matches during a crisp morning, then turned back an International rally with one of its own to split the afternoon fourball matches and build a 14 ½-7 ½ lead going into the 12 singles matches today in Montreal.

2007 September 30, The Associated Press, “U.S. Widens Lead in Presidents Cup”, in New York Times:

(golf) A match between two teams of two golfers, each playing his or her own ball throughout the round rather than alternating shots, and each hole won by the team whose individual golfer has the lowest score.


match play

(golf) A scoring system in which points are awarded for each hole won, as opposed to stroke play.

(bowling) A knockout competition between two single bowlers.

(sports) The playing of a competitive match, as opposed to training and practice.


roundarm

(cricket) An obsolete style of bowling where the bowler's arm is at right angles to the body at the point of delivery.


derailer

From derail + -er. Doublet of derailleur.

Very few bicycles are of a different color or employ more gears with derailer sprockets and hand brakes.

2009, Louis G. Perez, “Society in the Twenty-First Century”, in The History of Japan (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations), 2nd edition, Westport, Conn., London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 202:

Through sheer ingenuity and resourcefulness, these men handproduced parts such as derailers, stands, seat posts, cranks, fenders, and all manner of elements used in the production of a functional bicycle.

2009, Christine Elliott, David Jablonka, “Cycles Alex Singer”, in Custom Bicycles: A Passionate Pursuit, Images Publishing, →ISBN, page 72, column 2:

Inside, two bearded men are working on a busted fuel pump, and another is repairing a bicycle derailer.

2016, Erik Reece, Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America’s Most Radical Idea, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 170:

Recent American attempts to further Anglicize the word to “derailer” have met with little success. In any case, no rails are involved.

[2016, Tony Hadland, Hans-Erhard Lessing, Bicycle Design: An Illustrated History, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 246:

(cycling, uncommon) Alternative form of derailleur.


elephant polo

(sports) A variety of polo played while riding elephants rather than horses.


crackback

Mike Pereira, the league’s director of officiating, said Wade did not commit an illegal crackback block because he was blocking upfield and not back toward the ball.

2007 January 3, The Associated Press, “Saban Needs More Time to Mull Alabama Offer”, in New York Times:

(American football) A block in which the blocker, positioned wide, blocks back towards where the ball was snapped.


hardstyle

(sports) In contrast to sports style, a specifically intensive workout exercise, such as a swing squat.


outdrive

en-verb

outdrive (third-person singular simple present outdrives, present participle outdriving, simple past outdrove, past participle outdriven)

outdrives (present singular third-person)
outdriving (participle present)
outdrove (past)
outdriven (participle past)

From Middle English outdriven, equivalent to out- + drive.

In friendly matches, she hit off the back tees used by men, and with her solid build she usually outdrove them, averaging 240 yards with wood-shaft clubs.

2007 January 12, Frank Litsky, “Maureen Orcutt, 99, Golf Champion, Dies”, in New York Times:

(transitive, golf) To make a drive (stroke with a driver) farther or better than.


pushrod

An internal-gear hub with a hollow axle may be re-oiled by removing the pushrod or indicator spindle and squirting oil into the end of the axle.

2000, 2008, “Internal-Gear Hubs”, in Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info, archived from the original on 2019-08-23:

Push Rod (81.85 mm) for Axle Length 168 mm

2018, “NEXUS 3-SPEED HUB w/Coaster Brake”, in Manuals & Technical Documents:

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(mechanical engineering) A rigid reciprocating rod that, by its movement, transmits force to actuate a mechanism.

(cycling) A rod in an internal gear hub that actuates the shifting mechanism.


goalscoring

a perfect goalscoring opportunity

(soccer, sometimes attributive) The scoring of goals.


FE

(automotive, sports) Abbreviation of Formula E.


mirrorless

(photography) A mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera, similar to a digital SLR, but usually made smaller by incorporating an electronic viewfinder instead of a mirror and prism.

digital interchangeable-lens system camera

electronic viewfinder with interchangeable lens


maunch

From Middle English maunche, from Old French maunche, one of the variants of manche, from Latin manica. Doublet of manche.


signable

a signable player

(sports) Capable of being signed, or recruited by a sports club.


driving iron

(golf) An iron golf club which can be used as a driver.


baffy

(golf) An obsolete wooden golf club with high loft.


lob wedge

(golf) A golf club (an iron) which provides maximum loft.


mid-iron

(golf) An iron golf club with more lift than a driver.

meániarann

an iron golf club with more lift than a driver


lofter

Miss Thorn began digging up the turf with her lofter: it was a painful moment for me. ¶ “You might at least have tried me, Mrs. Cooke,” I said.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

(golf) An obsolete golf club, the predecessor of the niblick.


sinkerballing

The Mets, a day after scoring 9 runs on 12 hits, managed four singles against Aaron Cook, the Rockies’ sinkerballing right-hander, who pitched a complete game.

2008 May 26, Ben Shpigel, “Mets Lose Again; Wilpon Is Up Next”, in New York Times:

(baseball) The pitching of sinkerballs (sinkers)


layback

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From lay + back (presumably from confusion between lay and lie).

A layback, on the other hand, forces you to pull with your arms. A layback can protrude so far from the main rock face, that your legs will be dangling uselessly in the air, while your arms support all of your body weight. The tricky thing about the layback is that not only do you need the upper-body strength to hold yourself up and climb hand over hand, but you also need the flexibility and balance to clear the edge of the overhang.

2006 July 2, Antonio Graceffo, “A Day of Rocks and Sea: Kayaking and Climbing in Taiwan”, in asiantribune.com:

(climbing) A maneuver to scale a vertical crack, by pulling with the arms and jamming the legs underneath, and shuffling up one limb at a time.

(surfing) A surf maneuver where the upright surfer leans back against the wave.

(skateboarding, snowboarding) A trick where the boarder leans back while on the lip of the ramp, or down a rail.

Only a fine interception from Mickael Silvestre denied the marauding Czech international an early chance from Tomasz Radzinski's layback and, as United struggled to find any momentum, their hosts threatened to overwhelm them.

2000 October 25, Daniel Taylor, “Radzinski double floors United”, in the Guardian:

(soccer) A short backwards pass to a teammate in an attacking position.


layback

layback (third-person singular simple present laybacks, present participle laybacking, simple past and past participle laybacked)

laybacks (present singular third-person)
laybacking (participle present)
laybacked (participle past)
laybacked (past)

(climbing) To climb using layback maneuvers.


cigar box

(juggling) A square box usually made of wood or plastic used as a juggling prop.


DFL

DFL (third-person singular simple present DFLs, present participle DFLing, simple past and past participle DFLed)

DFLs (present singular third-person)
DFLing (participle present)
DFLed (participle past)
DFLed (past)


vairy

(heraldry, of a field or charge) Divided into vair-bells of two or more tinctures.


Mills Mess

From the surname of Steve Mills (the inventor of the pattern) + mess.

(juggling) A pattern that involves crossing and uncrossing the arms while juggling.


centreback

" Ferguson paid tribute to the way Wigan - managed by former United centreback Steve Bruce - battled after their early setback.

2009 January 15, “Wayne Rooney injures hamstring as Manchester United beat Wigan Athletic”, in Herald Sun:

(soccer) Alternative spelling of centre-back


linesperson

en-noun

linesperson (plural linespeople or linespersons)

linespeople (plural)
linespersons (plural)

If it's nine-all in the fifth set, you got to use it and there's a terrible call because the linesperson was sleeping and the umpire was drinking coffee, of course then it's good you have it.

2009 January 26, Leo Schlink, “Roger Federer and Tomas Berdych slam Hawk-Eye”, in Herald Sun:


stroke play

(golf) A scoring system in which points are awarded based on the number of strokes used to sink the ball, as opposed to match play.

Greg Chappell: the master bastman. Enthralled crowds all over the world with his glorious strokeplay.

1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 207:

(cricket) Batting, especially excellent batting.


quaddie

From quadrella + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

2003 March 22, Craig Sherborne, Footy′s Man of Passion, The Herald Sun, republished in 2003, Garrie Hutchinson (editor), The Best Australian Sports Writing 2003, page 82,
He was a footballer, hard-boned, smart-mouthed, with an eye on the quaddie at Flemington.

I had the quaddie in Melbourne if Alinghi won.

2004 November 21, Josh Button, “Cup tips”, in aus.sport.rugby-league (Usenet):

2006, Mike Dillon, From The Horses Mouth: The Keith Haub Story, 2010, HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand), unnumbered page,
With only the last race to run the trio each had a $1 quaddie unit if Brent Thomson managed to get over the line in front.

For the Fourth week in a row I have had 3 live legs of the Quaddie only to be dudded by West Coast the last two!

2007 July 16, gF, “Screw Fremantle”, in aus.sport.aussie-rules (Usenet):

(Australia, gambling, horse racing, colloquial) A quadrella, a type of bet requiring the bettor to pick the winners of four nominated races at the same track; a bet requiring the selection of four winners of specified matches in a given round of a sporting competition.


glass jaw

An allusion to glass being easily breakable.

"How was I to know that big ape had a glass jaw?"

1989, Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One, →ISBN, page 109:

Early in Ali's career, experts believed he had what's called a glass jaw—that he would fall after the first big punch. He was now proving that he could take a punch, but each punch chipped away at his health.

[2010, Stephen Timblin, Muhammad Ali: King of the Ring, Sterling, →ISBN, page 101:

(chiefly boxing) A fighting vulnerability where one is easily knocked out via a single hard blow to the chin or jaw (due to lack of conditioning, insufficient training, or damage from past cerebral concussions).


fretty

The coats of various noble British families were originally fretty, but later 'simplified' to a single fret

(heraldry) Covered with a lattice-like pattern of diagonally interlaced bendlets and bendlets sinister.


front line

The home team eventually started to unpick the Town defence and Fabregas forced a saved from visiting goalkeeper Marton Fulop after collecting a pass from Bendtner, who played on the right side of the front line.

2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Ipswich (agg 3 - 1)”, in BBC:

(soccer) attack, collectively the attackers or forwards.


long stop

(cricket) A fielding position, now confined to the amateur game, behind the wicket-keeper (so as to retrieve balls that the wicket-keeper misses); a fielder in this position


Tigers

(cricket) The Bangladesh national cricket team.


cleanup hitter

(baseball) the fourth batter in the batting order, usually a power hitter


power hitter

(baseball) a batter with a high slugging percentage


VORP

value over replacement player
value over replacement player#English

(baseball) Acronym of value over replacement player.


value over replacement player

(baseball) A statistical measure which evaluates the relative performance of a batter or pitcher compared to a hypothetical replacement player of average fielding skill and below average hitting or pitching.


solarization

solarization (countable and uncountable, plural solarizations)

/ˌsoʊləɹaɪˈzeɪʃən/

/ˌsəʊləɹaɪˈzeɪʃən/

(photography) Whole or partial reversal of tone in a negative or photographic print, such that dark areas appear light or vice versa


solarize

en-verb

solarize (third-person singular simple present solarizes, present participle solarizing, simple past and past participle solarized)

solarizes (present singular third-person)
solarizing (participle present)
solarized (participle past)
solarized (past)

(transitive, dated, photography) To overexpose.

(intransitive, dated, photography) To become overexposed.


RtoL

RtoL: Bill, Sam and Phil.

(photography, graphic design) Alternative form of RTL (right to left)


holeshot

(motor racing, BMX) The position of being the first rider to pass the first turn of the course.


pentamirror

(photography) A system of three (not five) mirrors used as a cheaper substitute to a pentaprism in the viewfinders of some single-lens reflex cameras


pentaprism

(photography) A five-sided prism used in the viewfinder of most single-lens reflex cameras


damn and blast

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

(British, Cockney rhyming slang, motor racing) Last.


bricole

From French bricole, from Late Latin briccola, bricola, of uncertain origin.

(billiards) A shot in which the cue ball is initially driven against the cushion.


quartersaw

quartersaw (third-person singular simple present quartersaws, present participle quartersawing, simple past quartersawed, past participle quartersawn)

quartersaws (present singular third-person)
quartersawing (participle present)
quartersawed (past)
quartersawn (participle past)

(woodworking) Cut radially (towards the heart of the log), at right angles to the growth rings, for stability or the production of decorative patterns.


no side

(rugby) Called by the referee at the end of a match, as no side has the next possession of the ball.


Fox

* (surname): From fox (“vulpine animal”)

The Foxes played with plenty of initiative in the original tie at the Walkers Stadium and they started this tie in impressively positive fashion, producing the game's first two chances: Andy King's goal-bound half-volley from Steve Howard's header down was tipped over by Joe Hart and Sol Bamba headed the resultant corner wide.

2011 January 18, Phil Dawkes, “Man City 4 - 2 Leicester”, in BBC:

(soccer) Someone connected with Leicester City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.


small forward

(basketball) A forward who is the shorter of the two forward positions, and often plays behind the power forwards.

pieni laitahyökkääjä

basketball: shorter of the two forward positions


power forward

(basketball) A forward who is the taller of the two forward positions, and is often responsible for scoring near the basket, collecting rebounds and blocking shots in defense.

(ice hockey) A forward who is capable of both rugged physical play and scoring goals.


toss juggling

(juggling) A form of juggling that involves throwing props in the air and catching them, in contrast to contact juggling.

jonglerie de lancer

Form of juggling involving throwing and catching


reverse cascade

en-noun

reverse cascade (plural reverse cascades)

(juggling) A pattern performed with an odd number of props where each prop is caught by the opposite hand and thrown over the incoming prop, in contrast with the traditional cascade where the prop is thrown under.


calotype

From Ancient Greek καλός (kalós, “good”) and τύπος (túpos, “impression”).

Calotypes have a hazy and mysterious feeling about them and feel painterly in the way they look. Mastery of calotypes takes time. Every calotype is distinct and difficult to duplicate.

2022, Morgan Post, Alternative Process Photography for the Contemporary Photographer: A Beginner's Guide, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:


photobook

(photography) A book of photographs, often by a single photographer


shneid

Danny Kaye was an avid baseball fan, passionately devoted to his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers who broke the shneid by beating the Yankees in the previous World Series.

2001, Ilana Abramovitch with Seán Galvin, Jews of Brooklyn, page 315:

Ok. The dolphins got off the shneid by finally beating the Jets in the first go round.

2002 November 10, “Jets Vs. Dolphins”, in alt.sports.football.pro.miami-dolphins (Usenet):

Cal is 3-0 all-time against the Boilermakers and is in a good position to keep Purdue on the shneid.

2003 March 21, “Cal Tennis Welcomes Purdue”, in dailycal.org:

[Eric Osmundson] has to get off the shneid, David [Whitehurst] has to help us, and even Ibby's better than 2-for-7. Hopefully, it'll start to come.

2005 December 3, “Jaaber, Penn turn back Navy”, in Philadelphia Daily News:

(informal, US, sports) A losing streak, especially a hitless period in baseball.


half-shower

(juggling) A pattern which consists of throwing the objects thrown by one hand over the top of the objects thrown by the other hand. Each object is thrown to the opposite hand.


chicken strips

"The harder you lean into corners, the more of the tyre you use. This means that a biker who rides hard will have an evenly-worn tyre. A biker who rides gently will not use the outer edges of the rubber resulting in a phenomenon known as 'chicken strips'. These are very uncool and a beacon to those in the know that the rider is a novice."¹

"At our first gas stop, I was thrilled to note that the "chicken strips," those bands of virgin rubber found on the edges of most Midwestern riders' rear tires, had been burned off the Yamaha's 17-inch Bridgestone Battalax BT-20s. In other words, I was hitting some serious (for me) lean angles."²

"Is your chain due for replacement? Are your tires so worn that only the chicken strips left on the sides remain? Replace them now."³

(slang, motorcycling, humorous) The band of unscuffed tire surface at the outer edges of the contact surface.


opening batsman

opening batsman (plural opening batsmen)

(cricket) The first batsman of an innings.

(cricket) One of the first two batsmen of an innings.


hack squat

(weightlifting) An exercise performed on a machine by using the legs to move weight resting on the shoulders, thereby moving the weight as the legs are straightened and the feet remain stationary.


delts

His enthusiasm is contagious, and his delts are outrageous.

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

(bodybuilding, slang) The deltoid muscles.


posedown

The real reason for these subdued responses was the fact that the audience knew it would be a fight to the finish; they were saving their screams for the posedown festivities to come.

(bodybuilding) The final part of a competition in which two or more bodybuilders pose freestyle on stage side by side, rather than individually.


double biceps

And when he hits a double biceps shot, his proportion is more than a little startling.

(bodybuilding) A standard pose in which both sets of biceps are flexed and the chest is thrust forward.


most muscular

Then Christian heads Quinn off at the pass with a most muscular.

(bodybuilding) A standard pose in which the chest, shoulder, and arm muscles are flexed with the arms in front of the body.


leg press

The same logic applies to leg presses; the more you lower the sled, the harder your hams have to work, as long as you're controlling the weight.

2010, Adam Garett, “Fried Hams”, in Reps!, 17:23:

(weightlifting) An exercise performed by using the legs to press weight away from one's body, while the body remains stationary.


leg curl

You'd never dream of doing just bench presses to build a massive chest, or only lateral raises to build up your shoulders, so you'll surely limit your overall leg development if you restrict your hamstring training to leg curls.

(weightlifting) An exercise performed on a machine in which the hamstring muscles are exerted to bend the knee while acting against resistance applied to the lower calf. The exercise may be performed while prone or standing, depending on the design of the machine.


side chest

(bodybuilding) A standard pose in which one arm is bent at the elbow, and the chest muscles are flexed, with one's side turned to the judges.


leg extension

(weightlifting) An exercise performed on a machine while seated. The quadriceps (thigh muscles) are exerted to straighten the knee while acting against resistance applied to the lower shin.


side triceps

(bodybuilding) A standard pose in which one arm is held straight with the triceps flexed, with one's side turned to the judges.


front double biceps

front double biceps (plural front double biceps)

(bodybuilding) A standard pose in which both sets of biceps and the abdominals are flexed, while one is facing the judges.


back double biceps

back double biceps (plural back double biceps)

(bodybuilding) A standard pose in which both sets of biceps and back muscles are flexed, with one's back turned toward the judges.


rear double biceps

rear double biceps (plural rear double biceps)

Using this information, set the poses up in a manner that allows easy transition from one pose to another. Hitting a front lat spread and then trying to follow with a rear double biceps is just not practical.

1997, Gerard Thorne, Phil Embleton, Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding, page 287:


leadoff hitter

(baseball) The first hitter in the batting order, who faces the first pitch of the game.

(baseball) The first hitter of any given inning.


pacey

en-adj

pacey (comparative pacier, superlative paciest)

pacier (comparative)
paciest (superlative)

Not only were Jupp Heynckes' team pacey in attack but they were relentless in their pursuit of the ball once they had lost it, and as the game wore on they merely increased their dominance as City wilted in the Allianz Arena.

2011 September 27, Alistair Magowan, “Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport:


precontest

Alternating off-season and precontest cycles in bodybuilding over a period of years will result in the relatively quick development of a championship physique.

1983, Joe Weider, The Weider System of Bodybuilding, page 4:

(bodybuilding) Of or pertaining to the phase of preparation in the weeks prior to a competition.


crew chief

(sports, chiefly US) the chief umpire, referee or other official.


terrasse

From French terrasse (“terrace”). Doublet of terrace.

(heraldry) A representation of the ground, serving as the base for another object; a terrace.


sinople

en-noun

sinople (countable and uncountable, plural sinoples)

From Old French sinople, from Latin Sinōpis, from Ancient Greek Σινωπίς (Sinōpís, “of Sinope”), a town that exported a red ocher. The unexpected change to meaning "green" in heraldry occurred in French texts around 1350 for unclear reasons.

der

In heraldry, sinople (the green of blazonry) also signified love, joy, abundance.

1903, George Field, Ellis A. Davidson, A grammar of colouring, applied to decorative painting and the arts:

Espinosa (Spain and Flanders) : Argent, a tree terrassé sinople, accosted by two wolves affrontés, sable […]

1903, Isidore Singer, Cyrus Adler, The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, page 128:

This shield argent with three lions sinople (green) has remained the coat of arms of the House of Lannoy. The young knight built a home in the woods around the seigneurie of Lys.

1984, Lucile Kathryn Delano, Charles De Lannoy, Victor of Pavia, →ISBN:


dunkfest

Another Ridgewood Y regular described seeing Dalton get into a trash-talking dunkfest on a tough playground in Miami.

2004, Timothy Harper, Doing Good: Inspirational Stories Of Everyday Americans At Home And At Work:

A WORTHY DUNKFEST: Worthy's 28 points in the game included five dunks.

2006, Jimmy Black, Scott Fowler, Jimmy Black's Tales from the Tar Heels:

Bryant joined Julius Erving, Michael Jordan, Dominique Wilkins and Vince Carter as judges of the dunk contest Saturday night, an event that paled in comparison with Sunday night’s dunkfest, led by Bryant, Amare Stoudemire and Vince Carter.

2007 February 19, Liz Robbins, “On Star-Studded Stage, Bryant Proves the Best”, in New York Times:

The conclusion itself turned into the kind of dunkfest for bench players usually reserved for rec league blowouts.

2007, Roland Lazenby, Mindgames: Phil Jackson's Long Strange Journey:

(slang, rare, basketball) A game involving many dunks.


quick light

(photography) A light exhibiting very rapid regular alternations of light and darkness, normally sixty flashes per minute.


judogi

Borrowed from Japanese 柔(じゅう)道(どう)着(ぎ) (jūdōgi).

(judo) The uniform used for judo practice and competition, based on traditional Japanese clothing.


zoomy

en-adj

zoomy (comparative zoomier, superlative zoomiest)

zoomier (comparative)
zoomiest (superlative)

relies upon zoomy close-ups

wobbly, zoomy, headachey shots

However, the photography is at moments too poorly exposed, too zoomy, and the camera positioned too closely, for the footage to be useful

1977, American anthropologist, volume 79, page 760:

(photography) Obviously characteristic of a zoom lens


Statue of Liberty

(American football) A Statue of Liberty play, which involves a fake in which the quarterback assumes a pose like that of the statue.

Famous tricks such as the Mills Mess, Burke's Barrage, and Rubenstein's Revenge are covered, along with fundamentals (Statue of Liberty, the Snake, the Machine, 4 4 1)[…]

1991, George Gillson, Beyond the Cascade:

(juggling) A pattern where the props are thrown from one hand to the other in a circular motion, with one hand raised significantly above the other.


look-in

(American football) A quick short pass to a receiver running diagonally toward the center of the field.


wall ride

(skateboarding, snowboard, BMX) A trick where the rider makes the bottom of the board touch the side of a wall.


pole jam

Named in honor of Pearl Jam, a rock group popular in the 1990s.

(skateboarding) A trick where the skateboarder skates over a bent pole.


heelflip

(skateboarding) A flip trick where the skateboarder kicks the board in order to make it flip 360 degrees along its long axis.


boardslide

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

(skateboarding) A slide trick where the boarder stands on the center of the board, on the rail between the two axles.

(snowboarding) A slide trick, where the boarder balances the snowboard at its centre, between the two boot bindings, and slides along the width of the board.


strike partner

The striker crossed the ball into the area and found his strike partner Jones, who headed it into the net.

Barton played an important role in both strikes, finding the front two with raking past from just beyond the Newcastle area before feeding in Lovenkrands with a quick free-kick who in turn found his strike partner.

2011 January 5, Saj Chowdhury, “Newcastle 0 - 0 West Ham”, in BBC:


home side

Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings. The absence of James Morrison from the centre of Scotland’s midfield, the West Brom man ruled out on the morning of the game by illness, had already diminished the creative capacity of the home side in that department.

2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:

But the home side can look back with pride on a performance that boasted good football and a lot of heart.

2011 January 29, Ian Hughes, “Southampton 1 - 2 Man Utd”, in BBC:

(sports) The team that plays at home (in their own stadium).


back four

It was a comfortable evening for the Gunners’ back four.

Despite dominating possession and territory, they were being comfortably contained by Everton's well-organised midfield and diligent back four.

2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:

With Wales in a back four, England found joy out wide. The defensive effort impressed though, and Neco Williams courageously took a driven strike from Rashford to the head as Wales stood firm, but then, concern hit.

2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline:

(soccer) The set of four defenders in a team.


on a pair

(cricket) Describing the status of a batsman who has made a duck in the first innings, and is yet to score in the second.


racebike

Powerful engines and sticky tires make high-side accidents a threat on modern racebikes.

2009 August 23, Dexter Ford, “Slip-Sliding Suspended”, in New York Times:

(motorcycling) A motorcycle designed for racing


swingarm

At the rear, you'll find a single, centrally mounted shock, the now-familiar single-sided swingarm and BMW's Paralever shaft-drive system, which does away with most of a shafty's chassis-jacking bugaboos.

1994, Cycle World Magazine, volume 33, number 1, page 49:

At the rear, stiffer springs, a new aluminum swingarm and a redesigned linkage for the suspension all benefit on-road behavior, though there is now an inch less ground clearance.

2007 September 9, Jerry Garrett, “Updating a Dual-Purpose Stalwart”, in New York Times:

(motorcycling) The main component of the rear suspension of most modern motorcycles and ATVs; holds the rear axle in place while swinging vertically to allow the suspension to absorb the shock from bumps in the road.


league cup

single-elimination tournament
single-elimination tournament

(soccer) A single-elimination tournament for which entry is restricted only to teams in the top national league or leagues.


run for the roses

en-noun

run for the roses (plural runs for the roses)

Looking back at Ohio State's run for the roses, there might be some who will insist the Buckeyes were lucky to escape defeat at least once. . . . the Buckeyes whipped a jinx in the form of premature Rose Bowl talk.

1954, Lloyd Larson, "Ohio Comes Through Like Real Champ," Milwaukee Sentinel, 23 Nov., part 2, p. 2 (retrieved 24 Aug. 2009)

(idiomatic, American football) A college football game or series of games played with the ultimate goal of qualifying for the championship Rose Bowl game.


piaffe

(dressage) A calm, composed, elevated trot in place.


essorant

(heraldry, of a bird) Standing, with wings spread, as if about to take flight.


score string

(billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.

àbac

device used to keep the score in billiards


apple of Grenada

apple of Grenada (plural apples of Grenada)

For this service, he received from that monarch a picturesque addition to the arms of the family, in the form of a canton charged with the pomegranate (the apple of Grenada), which, as it was borne by his collateral descendants[…]


slotback

(American football) A particular position in American football, often a running back who lines up near the line of scrimmage and can function as a wide receiver.

If Hufnagel's looking for a hint, he might want to get his defence to focus on slotback P.K. Sam. Even though the Argos say they want to run the ball more, passing will remain the key part of the equation.

2009 August 28, Chris Zelkovich, “Sam hopes to boost Argos' sagging attack”, in Toronto Star:

(Canadian football) A particular position in Canadian football, similar to a hybrid between wide receiver and running back.


rayonnant

(heraldry) Giving off rays like those of the sun; rayonné; radiant.


accolé

From French accolé, past participle of accoler.

[…] and those of his heiress-wife; under the mistaken impression that the shield so used, accolé to his own, is that of the lady, whereas in my view it is that to which he is himself entitled, and to which she is not.

1896, John Woodward, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 146:

(Stratford, Earl of Aldborough.) Polack Sculp. Chippendale Armorial, two shields accolé, with supporters, on a mantle.
(Stratford (Edward), Earl of Aldborough). Armorial. Two Shields accolé, with supporters.

1905, Augustus Wollaston Franks, Ellis's Catalogue of British and American Book-plates (ex-libris), page 185:

However, the reverse-gilt glass panel, decorated with three accolé coats of arms and the date 1571, applied over the cartouche on the front of the ewer, ...

2012, Wolfram KoeppeClare Le CorbeillerWilliam RiederCharles TrumanSuzanne G. ValensteinClare Vincentet al., The Robert Lehman Collection: Decorative arts. XV, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 134:

(heraldry) Joined or placed side by side (with); (of a pair of shields) displayed side by side and often leaning on or towards each other.


étincelé

(heraldry, rare) Semé (strewn) with sparks.


ployé

Thus, Argent, a chevron ployé gules (d'Argent, au chevron ployé de gueules) is the coat of the Danish AUGUSTINS or OWSTINS; the reverse is that of the RODENEGGS, Counts WOLKENSTEIN.

1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 137:


outputt

en-verb

outputt (third-person singular simple present outputts, present participle outputting, simple past and past participle outputted)

outputts (present singular third-person)
outputting (participle present)
outputted (participle past)
outputted (past)

He came in with two career wins and 27 career top-10s, but outputted one of the game’s best putters, Stricker, on the last green, a man who has two wins this year and won the Barclays in 2007 since Slocum last won on Tour.

2009 August 31, Larry Dorman, “Slocum, Seeded 124th, Makes Clutch Putt to Hold Off Stars”, in New York Times:


puncto

From Latin punctum via Italian punto. Doublet of punto and ponto.


bleu celeste

Borrowed from French bleu céleste (“sky blue”).

(heraldry) A rarely-occurring sky-blue tincture, lighter than azure.


uglies

The Feudatory States' stamps, with their distinctive designs, are philatelically known as "uglies", a tee well deserved in many cases.

1960, The Illustrated Weekly of India, Publisher, Times of India, Volume 81, Issue 2 - Page 67

British collectors have sometimes referred to these as “the Uglies,” though it’s unclear when or where this term originated.

2017, India feudatory ‘Uglies’ shine at Cherrystone auction, Author:

(philately, derogatory, informal) The stamps of the Indian feudatory states.


ballhandling

Pointer's ballhandling, passing, and shooting were astounding for such a young player.

1997 May 23, Patrick Z. McGavin, “Driving Force”, in Chicago Reader:

(basketball) Skillful handling of the basketball when dribbling, passing or receiving


barebow

(archery) Unassisted, with just a bow and no additional aids such as sights.


P.R.

[…] the biggest so-called boxer that ever sported buff in the P.R., in the person of Charles Freeman, weighing 18st., and standing 6ft. 10½in. in his stocking feet.

Henry Downes Miles, Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing (volume 3)

(boxing, archaic) Initialism of prize ring.


pick six

(American football, slang) An interception by the defense that is run back the other way for a touchdown.

(horse racing) A wager in which the bettor must correctly predict the winners of six consecutive races.


poker run

(motorcycling) A motorcycling event where each participant pays a fee, and then follows a course with checkpoints, at each of which a playing card is drawn. At the last checkpoint, the rider with the best poker hand is the winner. Typically poker runs end with a party, and the proceeds benefit a charity.


dice run

(motorcycling) Similar to a poker run, an organized event where motorcyclists pay an entry fee and then follow a prescribed course with checkpoints, at each of which dice are rolled and the result recorded. At the last checkpoint a winner is determined and prizes awarded, typically at a party. Proceeds usually go to benefit a charity.


beanbrawl

(baseball, informal) A fight between teams at a baseball game, typically caused by a beanball.


ballhawk

(American football, basketball) A player who is particularly good at catching interceptions.

They documented Waveland Avenue's ballhawk culture, where Moe Mullins, who's recovered more than 3,500, is king, and followed him home to gape at his bounty: 1,000 major-league balls hoarded like dinosaur eggs.

2001 October 5, Deanna Isaacs, “Oddballs and True Believers/Film Center's New Marquee Player”, in Chicago Reader:

Last season, when the Giants came to town, a noted ballhawk named Wes Wagner scored tickets in the first row of the bleacher boxes in right field.

2007 July 18, Lee Jenkins, “At Wrigley, Fans Debate What to Do With a Ball”, in New York Times:

(baseball) A fielder who is particularly good at catching fly balls.


deca

en-noun

deca (countable and uncountable, plural decas)

From deca-, from Latin decas (“ten”), from Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekás, “10”)
* (nandrolone decanoate): Clipping of decanoate.
* (decathlon): Clipping of decathlon.

anabolic steroid
anabolic steroid#English

(bodybuilding slang, uncountable) The anabolic steroid nandrolone decanoate.


galactico

Borrowed from Spanish galáctico. Doublet of galactic.

The danger about each of Mr Brown's weekend initiatives - his appearance as a galactico in Team Europe and his robust hostility to excessive lending - is that each may be more tactical than strategic, more appearance than reality.

2009 February 23, “Editorial: Brown in Berlin, image and reality”, in The Guardian:

Perez has promised a return of the "galactico" era at Madrid after initiating the original one from 2000-06 with the blockbuster signings of Zinedine Zidane, Beckham, Luis Figo and Brazil's Ronaldo.

2009 July 7, “Ronaldo rocks 80,000 fans at Bernabeu”, in Toronto Star:


shotmaker

(sports) A player who is skilled at making shots and scoring even against skilled defense.


saltirewise

(heraldry) In the form of a saltire; crossing diagonally.


PSG

Paris Saint-Germain Football Club
w:en:Paris Saint-Germain F.C.

(soccer) Initialism of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, a French football club from Paris; from French PSG


badelaire

Borrowed from French badelaire, baudelaire, a corruption of earlier (14th century) baselard.

(heraldry) This sword used as a heraldic charge.


blue card

The term has been inspired by the United States' green card, blue making reference to the main colour of the EU flag.

association football
association football

(sports) A penalty card that in association football indicates an offense at a lesser level than a yellow card, and has other meanings in bandy, handball, and Quidditch.


fireballer

From the beginning, Clemens was a fireballer, Wells more of a junkballer.

2007 June 14, Lee Jenkins, “At 44, Wells Is the Anti-Clemens”, in New York Times:

(baseball) A pitcher who throws very fast balls.


loosener

(cricket) A usually inaccurate delivery bowled early in a bowler's first over.


bowshot

It is, however, interesting in connection with that fact to remember that the last bowshot in English warfare was fired during the Civil War.

1900, Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson, The Antiquary, page 113:

(archery) The act of firing an arrow from a bow.


sinisterwise

(heraldry, archaic) Sinister; on the left-hand side from the wearer's viewpoint.


dexterwise

[...] on the reverse is a fish, naiant dexterwise; the diameter is 0.02, and the material copper, silver being the only other metal used.

1876, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, page 273:

In his day, however, only two types were known, one with an amphora and the other with a goat on the reverse, the obverse of both showing a helmeted head of Pallas facing dexterwise.

1879, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London, page 165:

Or, a lion's gamb, erased dexterwise gules.

1884, Jacob Youde William Lloyd, The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, and the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd, page 198:

(heraldry, archaic) Dexter; on or toward the right-hand side from the wearer's perspective.


teleconverter

(photography) A secondary lens mounted between the camera and a photographic lens so as to enlarge the central part of an image obtained by the objective lens.


toeboard

(athletics) In throwing sports such as javelin and shot put, a board on the ground, over which the thrower must not step.

butoir

in throwing sports e.g. javelin and shot put, a board on the ground, over which the thrower must not step


multiflash

(photography) Involving more than one flash.


formée

Crest, two lances or, in saltier, headed ar. pennons hanging to them of the first, each charged with a cross formée gu.

1830, Thomas Robson (engraver.), The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland:


chinny

en-adj

chinny (comparative chinnier, superlative chinniest)

chinnier (comparative)
chinniest (superlative)


starting five

(US, basketball) The five players who are initially playing for a team at the start of a game.


squibber

Kimi Pohlman raced home on a squibber back to the circle that Florida pitcher Stacey Nelson could not handle, giving Washington the decisive run in a 3-2 victory for its first N.C.A.A. softball championship Tuesday night.

2009 June 3, The Associated Press, “Washington Takes N.C.A.A. Softball Crown”, in New York Times:

(baseball) A fly ball that becomes a base hit


glovework

A half-century after Branch Rickey harrumphed, “There is nothing on earth anybody can do with fielding,” all these pixels and bits will almost certainly revolutionize the analysis of baseball glovework.

2009, Alan Schwarz, Digital Eyes Will Chart Baseball’s Unseen Skills, New York Times:

(sports) Fielding ability in sports such as in baseball or cricket where fielders wear gloves.


Chinese snooker

en-noun

Chinese snooker (plural Chinese snookers)

His white came back down the table in the orthodox fashion and rested up against the green ball in a Chinese snooker.

1991, Michael Curtin, The plastic tomato cutter:

...in snooker a 'Chinese snooker' is the action of leaving the cue-ball, not behind a coloured ball as with a normal snooker, but in front of one and almost touching it...

1998, Pamela Siew Im Ong, One man's will: a portrait of Dato' Sir Onn bin Ja'afar:

Now, happy bridging over a chinese snooker.

2003, Tjander Nathoeni, “touching ball clarification (snooker)”, in rec.sport.billiard (Usenet):

(snooker) A reverse snooker position where the cue ball is in front of, rather than behind, a ball that is not on, making the shot very difficult because the bridge is hampered and the cueing angle is unnaturally high.


jab artist

(boxing) A boxer who fights with short jab-like punches.


clear-out

(basketball) A semicircular sweep with the ball grasped firmly in both hands.

Dave Kearney was straight over the ball in a jackal, and Mul made a brilliant clear-out.

2016, Gerry Thornley, Front Up, Rise Up: The Official Story of Connacht Rugby:

Leading British rugby correspondent Brendan Gallagher, writing in The Rugby Paper on 31 December 2017, produced a withering indictment of the practice, saying: “Sort out the thuggery at clear-out time, start reffing it properly. The clear out doesn't exist in law and certainly shouldn't be used as an excuse for players who are not bound to launch themselves off their feet like an Exocet and take out-injure-maim players who are behind the ball and legally bound on. Or sometimes just trying to reach the ruck."

(rugby) The act of removing opponents from a ruck or scrum in order to secure possession of the ball.


goal area

(soccer) The area of the pitch, extending six yards from the goal, from which a goal kick is taken.

àrea de meta

soccer: area from which a goal kick is taken

(ice hockey) A semicircle in front of the goal designed to allow the goalie to perform free from interference. Exact rules vary according to the league.

àrea de porteria

ice hockey: semicircle in front of the goal


backwards roll

(gymnastics) A movement in which one's body is rolled backwards, by crouching on the ground and lifting one's legs complete over one's head and lifting the head at the end.


forwards roll

(gymnastics) Alternative form of forward roll


glamour photography

(photography) A form of photography involving the taking of pictures of models which are intended to be erotic without being pornographic.

(photography) Photography intended to glamorise the subject.


forcené

From French forcené (“rabid”), past participle of forcener (“to go mad, become enraged”), from Middle French, from Old French forsener (“to be mad with rage”) (compare Old French forsenede (“one who has lost his mind”)), from for- + sen (“sense, reason, mind”), from Frankish *sinn (“sense, mind, judgement”).
Cognate with German Sinn (“sense, meaning, mind”), Dutch zin (“sense, desire”). More at for-, sense.

der

[…] sinister parted per fess Gules and Azure, in chief a horse forcené Argent between in sinister chief and dexter base an ancient crown Or, and in base a cross Gules fimbriated Argent between in each quarter five plates in saltire,[…]

2021 October 13, Judith Nasby, The Making of a Museum, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN, page 122:

[…] leading troops in the background, his horse forcené, his right arm gesturing both ahead to the summit and.

2022 January 18, Charles Caramello, Riding to Arms: A History of Horsemanship and Mounted Warfare, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN:

(chiefly heraldry, in reference to a horse) Rearing on the hind legs. (When another animal has this posture, it is termed rampant.)


personal foul

(sports) A breach of the rules in certain sports, particularly involving dangerous play.


buzzer flag

(soccer) A linesman's flag that is equipped with a button that causes a receiver (typically worn by the referee) to buzz, thus warning him of the flag's use.


GTP

en-noun

GTP (countable and uncountable, plural GTPs)

Grand Touring Prototype
w:Grand Touring Prototype

(motor racing) Initialism of Grand Touring Prototype.


snagger

(fishing) A fishing hook consisting of several hooks radiating from a centre.


barwise

en-adv

barwise (comparative more barwise, superlative most barwise)

more barwise (comparative)
most barwise (superlative)


bendwise

bendwise (comparative more bendwise, superlative most bendwise)

more bendwise (comparative)
most bendwise (superlative)

Az. a bend or betw. two dolphins embowed bendwise arg.

1892, Aaron Davis Weld French, Index Armorial to an Emblazoned Manuscript of the Surname of French: Franc, Francois, Frene and Others, Both British and Foreign, Boston, Priv. print., page 49:

(heraldry) Diagonally; placed like a bend, i.e. running from the dexter chief to the sinister base.


chevronwise

chevronwise (comparative more chevronwise, superlative most chevronwise)

more chevronwise (comparative)
most chevronwise (superlative)

CHEVRONNE, or Chevronny, ſignifies the dividing of the ſhield ſeveral times chevron-wiſe.

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

(heraldry) Synonym of chevrony: chevron-like, in the manner of a chevron.


fesswise

(heraldry) In the manner of a fess; as a broad horizontal stripe.


palewise

An oblong figure fesswise divided palewise, from one end a thick projection, and in chief a crescent.

2007, Colin Stewart Sinclair Lyon, Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, Oxford University Press, USA:

(chiefly heraldry) Divided by perpendicular vertical lines like pales.

Erm. three longbows palewise in fess gu.

1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 348:

Three roundels in chief and two horse-shoes palewise in base, probably intended for the arms of Daubeney and Ferrers.

1904, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 511:

Anchor: Placed palewise, unless otherwise blazoned

1965, Heather Child, Heraldic Design: A Handbook for Students, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 82:

In place of the rainbow there was, palewise on a field of gules, on either side of the shield, the broken lance which had caused the death of Henri II—Lacrymae hinc, hinc dolor was the motto. And to this symbolism of mourning was also[…]

2019 July 2, Jean Heritier, Catherine de Medici, Routledge, →ISBN:

In one shield the lis are positioned vertically or palewise, […] and the Poutrel lis were shown bend-wise in the glass at Prestwold church and pale-wise in Thomas Jenyns' Ordinary.

2020 January 9, Paul A. Fox, Great Cloister: A Lost Canterbury Tale: A History of the Canterbury Cloister, Constructed 1408-14, with Some Account of the Donors and their Coats of Arms, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 540:

(chiefly heraldry) In the direction of or positioned like a pale: vertically.


palewise

It is essentially the upper portion (or triangle) of the saltire met slightly above the fess point by a palewise line originating from the middle base. No varied field Bendy seems to have been adopted from this division.

1972, Marvin H. Pakula, Heraldry and Armor of the Middle Ages:

Party - in ancient heraldry, the word party, used alone, implied a palewise division of the field.

1983, Charles Boutell, Boutell's Heraldry, Frederick Warne Publishers:


pick out

en-verb

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

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

From pick + out. Compare Saterland Frisian uutpikke (“to pick out”), Dutch uitpikken (“to pick out”).

cog

Ameobi skipped away down the left in the 39th minute and tried to pick out Shearer with a cross but his delivery was cut out by goalkeeper Jussi J...

2006 December 26, “Bolton Wanderers vs Newcastle United”, in 4TheGame, archived from the original on 2008-04-14:

(transitive, idiomatic, soccer) To send a long pass or cross to.


plater

(horse-racing) A horse that runs chiefly in selling plates; hence, an inferior racehorse.


power slide

(motorcycling, driving) The act of sliding with the wheels being driven.

(skateboarding) The act of pushing the skateboard sideways.


rack up

en-verb

rack up (third-person singular simple present racks up, present participle racking up, simple past and past participle racked up)

racks up (present singular third-person)
racking up (participle present)
racked up (participle past)
racked up (past)

At the start of the game, the referee racks up the red balls.

If you rack up, I'll break.

(snooker, transitive, intransitive, billiards, cue sports) to arrange in a rack


put through

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

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

Friedel again had to save as he parried a Patrice Evra shot before gathering the ball after the left-back had been put through by Ryan Giggs.

2011 February 1, Mandeep Sanghera, “Man Utd 3 - 1 Aston Villa”, in BBC:

(transitive, soccer) To pass the ball to (someone) giving them a one-on-one scoring opportunity.


racket abuse

(tennis) the throwing of one's racket in anger, during play, which may result in a penalty.


five-tool player

en-noun

five-tool player (plural five-tool players)

Five-tool player who hits for avg., power, runs, throws, fields.

1993 March, “1993 American League Rookie Scouting Reports”, in Baseball Digest, page 57:

Griffey is the complete player, one who is known as a five-tool player.

2000, Jeff Savage, Sports Great: Ken Griffey, Jr., Enslow Publishers, →ISBN, page 11:

The original five-tool player, Ewing is widely considered the greatest ballplayer of the nineteenth century.

2010, Dan Fost, Giants Past & Present, MBI Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 70:

(baseball) A player who can hit for a high batting average, hit for power, run the bases well, throw well and field well.


cruisy

en-adj

cruisy (comparative cruisier, superlative cruisiest)

cruisier (comparative)
cruisiest (superlative)


reel in

en-verb

reel in (third-person singular simple present reels in, present participle reeling in, simple past and past participle reeled in)

reels in (present singular third-person)
reeling in (participle present)
reeled in (participle past)
reeled in (past)

(fishing, transitive) To bring (a fish etc.) out of the water by winding the line on which it is caught onto a reel (e.g. of a fishing rod).


miscut

en-noun

miscut (countable and uncountable, plural miscuts)

(philately) Incorrect separation of postage stamps; a postage stamp resulted from such an error.


Test side

(cricket) Any national cricket team that is authorized to compete in Test cricket.


Test cricket

From the idea that the long, gruelling matches are a trial of the relative strengths of the two sides.

(cricket) The highest level of international cricket, where Test sides compete against each other in five-day matches.


lens board

(photography) A part used for securing a lens to the front standard of a large-format view camera.


gillyflower

By folk etymology (with influence from flower) from French girofle, gilofre, from Late Latin caryophyllum, from Ancient Greek καρυόφυλλον (karuóphullon, “dried flower buds of the clove tree”).

der

(heraldry) A stylized representation of a carnation blossom, usually red, and shown with or without a slip and leaves.


sexfoil

(heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf with six lobes


cinquefoil

From Old French cinqfoil, from cinq (“five”) + foil (“leaf”).

(heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf with five lobes.

quinquefoli

heraldry: stylized flower or leaf with five lobes


between the pipes

A shutout performance calls for a brilliant display between the pipes and Bill was right on the job.

1927 March 12, “Burghs Back In Race for Eastern Hockey Title”, in Ottawa Citizen, Canada, retrieved 2009-12-26:

[T]he Finns might just have the best goaltending in the 12-team tournament.

2009, Shawn P. Roarke, "Finland's biggest strength is between the pipes," www.nhl.com (National Hockey League), 19 Feb. (retrieved 26 Dec. 2009)

(ice hockey, lacrosse, idiomatic) Between the goalposts; with respect to or playing the position of goaltender.


step over

(soccer) A dribbling move, or feint, in football (soccer), used to fool a defensive player into thinking the offensive player, in possession of the ball, in which the foot is moved over the ball without making contact with it.


superhard

(motor racing) A tyre whose compound is harder than a normal hard tyre.


supersoft

en-adj

supersoft (comparative more supersoft, superlative most supersoft)

more supersoft (comparative)
most supersoft (superlative)

(motor racing) Softer than soft, harder than ultrasoft and therefore harder than hypersoft.


supersoft

(motor racing) Ellipsis of supersoft tyre.


tiercé

(heraldry) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; said of an escutcheon.


ravissant

(heraldry) In a half-raised position, as if about to spring on prey.


double-team

en-verb

double-team (third-person singular simple present double-teams, present participle double-teaming, simple past and past participle double-teamed)

double-teams (present singular third-person)
double-teaming (participle present)
double-teamed (participle past)
double-teamed (past)

On any given night, Pivotman Macauley was good for at least 18 points a game. But because L.I.U. double-teamed him (he had two men guarding him), he didn't bother to shoot much.

1949 January 24, “Stop St. Louis!”, in Time:

(transitive, sports) In sports involving offensive and defensive teams, to use two defensive players to guard against the movements of a single offensive player.


short-stop

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

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

In The Spirit of the Times, the most reliable sporting paper of the Coast, we find the following encouraging criticism on our baseball nine: " Koshland (a tower of strength to this league) short topped and ran bases as brilliantly as the best of professionals."

1886, California Occident - Volumes 11-12, page 88:

Baird, '12, has been catching, short-stopping, second-basing and left-fielding with varying good nature, but impartial ability and with commendable attention to such trifling details as hitting and base running, matters apparently beneath the notice of most of the team.

1909, The Phi Gamma Delta - Volume 32, page 742:

I have never known her to follow with any degree of avidity the fortunes of the Kansas City Monarchs, for whom Robinson short-stopped last season.

1979, Mark Harris, Short Work of it: Selected Writing, page 4:

(baseball) To play the position of shortstop.


without troubling the scorers

Watson was caught and bowled for a fairly played eighteen, and Jardine again retired to the pavilion without troubling the scorers.

The PE teacher, the putative authority on all things sporting, went out, as they say, without troubling the scorers.

1993, Tom Raabe, Sports for the Athletically Impaired:

Mark Waugh came and went without troubling the scorers, leaving Australia at a perilous 2/16 with one man on the way to hospital.

He was brought down to earth in Georgetown, however, ten days later, suffering the indignity of being run out without troubling the scorers in the victory over British Guiana.

2003, James P. Coldham, Lord Hawke: a cricketing legend:

(informal, cricket) Describing the manner of the dismissal of a batsman who is out without scoring any runs


Romanian deadlift

en-noun

Romanian deadlift (plural Romanian deadlifts)

Named so in homage to Romanian weightlifter Nicolae Vlad.

Powerful hip extension is essential if you hope to squat heavier, jump higher or run faster, making it essential to train the hams using focused hip-extension exercises (like the romanian deadlift).

2010, Adam Garett, “Fried Hams”, in Reps!, 17:23:

(weightlifting) A form of deadlift in which the body is bent at the hips and the knees are not bent.


lateral raise

You'd never dream of doing just bench presses to build a massive chest, or only lateral raises to build up your shoulders, so you'll surely limit your overall leg development if you restrict your hamstring training to leg curls.

(weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arm is raised and lowered against resistance – such as through use of a dumbbell, cable, or resistance band –, isolating the deltoids.


D/L

Duckworth-Lewis method
Duckworth-Lewis method

(cricket, uncountable) Duckworth-Lewis method


portholed

(photography) Exhibiting the defect called portholing.


interception try

interception try (plural interception tries)

Australia’s 18 turnovers were a costly case of self-harm. So, too, were the two interception tries that ultimately wrecked any chance of Michael Cheika’s side ending their recent grim sequence against the Poms.

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

(rugby) A try that results from an interception.


dummy scissors

(rugby) An attacking move by two players resembling a scissors move but where the ball carrier only dummies the pass to his team-mate.


half-break

(rugby) The situation where a player almost breaks the opposition defensive line but is stopped by the opposition.


Tudor rose

(heraldry) A heraldic emblem of England, formed from the red rose of Lancaster and the white rose of York.


altyn

Borrowed from Russian алты́н (altýn), either from Tatar алты (altı, “six”), referring to six dengas (six half-kopeks), or from Tatar алтын (altın, “gold”). These small coins were never minted in gold; however, compare the semantic evolution of Latin solidus from a Roman gold coin to a medieval silver shilling.

(numismatics) An obsolete Russian coin worth three kopeks.


thrutch

en-verb

thrutch (third-person singular simple present thrutches, present participle thrutching, simple past and past participle thrutched)

thrutches (present singular third-person)
thrutching (participle present)
thrutched (participle past)
thrutched (past)

From Middle English thrucchen (“to push, rush”), from Old English þryċċan (“to push, press, trample on, crush”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrukkijan, from Proto-Germanic *þrukkijaną (“to press”). Cognate with West Frisian drukke (“to press”), Dutch drukken (“to press, squeeze”), German drücken (“to press, push, squeeze”), Swedish trycka (“to press, push, squeeze”).

cog

I thrutched up the final crack to a small pinnacle.

(caving, climbing) To push, press, or squeeze into a place; move sideways or vertically in an upright position by wriggling the body against opposing rock surfaces. Compare chimney.


thrutch

(caving, climbing (sport)) An obstacle overcome by thrutching; an act of thrutching (See verb #5)


base runner

(baseball) Alternative spelling of baserunner


basewoman

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

(baseball, softball) A female fielder positioned near a base


baseperson

The baseperson may not interfere with the runner and must stay inside the cones.

1992, California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, CAHPERD Journal Times, volume 55, page 3, rules of Crazy Baseball

The ready position for the second baseperson is generally located slightly more than halfway to second from first and 10 to 15 feet behind the base path (see Figure 4-34 ).

1993, Michael A. Clark, Youth Baseball: A Complete Handbook:

(baseball, softball) A fielder (of any gender) positioned near a base.


pick apart

en-verb

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

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

The quarterback picked apart the secondary defense in the first half.

Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.

2013 September 22, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:

(idiomatic, transitive, sports) To overcome by skilled execution.


bat out

bat out (third-person singular simple present bats out, present participle batting out, simple past and past participle batted out)

bats out (present singular third-person)
batting out (participle present)
batted out (participle past)
batted out (past)

(cricket) to continue batting (normally to prevent what would otherwise result in losing a match)


macrostereoscopic

(photography) Describing stereoscopic macrophotography or the equipment or techniques used in it


booter

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2017, “A Total of 68 booters from Davao Region will vie for slots in the national junior teams as football regional leg kicked off March 3 to 5 at the Fifa Football Training Center in Valencia, Bukidnon City.”, in Sun Star Davao:

(sports) A person who plays association football.


inrun

(skiing) In ski jumping, a steep portion of the ramp, where skiers gain speed before taking off.


deflex

(archery, of a bow) Having the arms curved or curled at the base so as to turn towards the archer when unstrung, reducing the strain on the limbs and also the energy stored by the weapon.


in a walk

... Underhand has done at Newcastle what Vampyre just failed to do at Ascot; and both the Two Thousand and the Thousand have been absolutely won in a walk.

1844, The New sporting magazine, page 301:

(idiomatic, colloquial, chiefly sports) Easily; without difficulty.


box kick

(rugby) A type of kick performed by the scrum-half. From the base of a ruck, maul or scrum, the scrum-half will stand sideways onto the opposition with his kicking foot further from them, and kick the ball high into the air so as to hopefully prevent the opposition charging down the kick.


CHL

(Canada, ice hockey) Initialism of Canadian Hockey League.

(Europe, ice hockey) Initialism of Champions Hockey League.

(ice hockey) Initialism of Central Hockey League.


ROU

(sports) Abbreviation of Rouyn-Noranda. (Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada)


VIR

(motor racing) Initialism of Virginia International Raceway.


MNG

Loose mixed lot, with duplication, of the Portugal & Colonies first decimal definitive designs. Very mixed condition, from VF to junk, all "mint" in some form or another, some MNH, some MH, some MHH, some MNG, etc.

1995 February 12, R L Silverman, “For Sale: Portugal/Colonies "Ceres" 1912-1931”, in rec.collecting.stamps (Usenet):


down start

longtrack speedskating
longtrack speedskating

(sports, longtrack speedskating) a starting position in longtrack speedskating, whereby the speedskater adopts tripod position with the ice surface, with one hand down, and both skates.


hockey skate

(ice hockey) A type of ice skate used in ice hockey, with a smooth skate blade attached to a skate boot via two pillars, one at the heel and one at the ball of the foot.


clap skate

From clap + skate, calque of Dutch klapschaats.

(sports, longtrack speedskating) a type of speedskate used in longtrack speedskating, where the skate blade is hinged at the front pillar to the boot, with the heel pillar being free, and kept in place by a spring mechanism.


speedskate

(sports, speedskating) A type of ice skate used in speedskating, with a long blade attached to the sole of the boot via two pillars, at the heel and ball of the foot.


off-pister

(skiing) Someone who skis or snowboards off-piste


SJ

(sports) Abbreviation of San Jose. (a city in California)


WF

(philately) Initialism of Washington Franklin. (USA stamp series, 1909 - 1920)


clean sweep

Scott Russell, who had sewn up the Yokohama 750cc Supersport championship earlier in the year, completed a clean sweep of the series races with his ninth victory in Miami.

1992 January, “Freddie is fastest in Miami”, in American Motorcyclist, volume 46, number 1, American Motorcyclist Association, →ISSN, page 38:

He achieved a clean sweep winning four professional majors in a span of 294 days.

2001 April 23, “Tiger Wins”, in JET, volume 99, number 19, Johnson Publishing Company, →ISSN, page 55:

India made a clean sweep of medals in the boys’ under-12 and girls’ under 10 sections.

2008 September, “Chess”, in Pratiyogita Darpan, volume 3, number 27, Pratiyogita Darpan, page 398:

(sports) The winning, by a person or team, of all the possible possible prizes, games, rounds or contests, etc in a competition, season or series.


retee

retee (third-person singular simple present retees, present participle reteeing, simple past and past participle reteed)

retees (present singular third-person)
reteeing (participle present)
reteed (participle past)
reteed (past)

(transitive, intransitive, golf) To place the ball back on the tee in preparation for another stroke.


double-double-double

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Lamar Odom had a double-double-double tonight with 22 points and 22 rebounds.

(basketball) The achievement of twenty or more of any two of points scored, assists, rebounds, blocks, or steals in a single game; most often achieved with points and rebounds.


JLB

(sports, moguls freestyle skiing) "cossack—iron cross—cossack" – an acrobatic maneuver in moguls skiing, whereby taking a ski jump off a kicker, the skier performs a sequence of three acrobatic maneuvers, starting with a cossack, followed by an iron cross, and ending with a cossack, before landing on course again.


wheelman

Coordinate term: wheelwoman

Many wheelmen and wheelwomen, riding safeties, tandems and tricycles, stopped there during the evening and we had good opportunity for comparing American and English bicycles […]

1897, American Architect and Architecture, volumes 57-58, page 51:

Old fashioned folks, for whom the horseless vehicle came to late, can but envy wheelmen and wheelwomen as they skim through vista after vista, outstripping one's horse and carriage as a greyhound outstrips a decrepit poodle.

1902, Matilda Betham-Edwards, East of Paris, London: Hurst and Blackett, pages 33–34:


rudy

(sports, aerial freestyle skiing) An acrobatic maneuver involving two and a half twists.


boulderer

(climbing) A climber who takes part in bouldering.


ropemate

(climbing) someone to whom one is connected by a rope


cup-tied

(sports, chiefly soccer, of a player) ineligible to compete in a cup competition due to having previously played for a different team in the same competition in the same season.


swan-dive

swan-dive (third-person singular simple present swan-dives, present participle swan-diving, simple past and past participle swan-dived)

swan-dives (present singular third-person)
swan-diving (participle present)
swan-dived (participle past)
swan-dived (past)


forward dive

(diving) A dive in which the diver faces the water while taking off, and lands facing forward.


swan dive

(diving) A forward dive performed with an arched back, the legs together, starting with arms outstretched when jumping, bringing them over the head when landing.


wedel

wedel (third-person singular simple present wedels, present participle wedeling, simple past and past participle wedeled)

wedels (present singular third-person)
wedeling (participle present)
wedeled (participle past)
wedeled (past)


Potter

From Middle English Potter, English, Dutch, and north German surname, from the noun pot.
The usage for someone from Stoke-on-Trent refers to it being the home of the pottery industry in England, where it is also known as The Potteries.

(soccer) someone connected with Stoke City Football Club (in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK), as a fan, player, coach etc.


superwide

(photography, of a lens) Extremely wide; panoramic.


superwide

(photography, informal) A wide panoramic lens.


ride down

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

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

(idiomatic, equestrianism, transitive) To cause (a horse) to fall when riding.


overstrike

en-noun

overstrike (countable and uncountable, plural overstrikes)

/ˈəʊvəstɹʌɪk/

/əʊvəˈstɹʌɪk/

(numismatics) A coin that has been overstruck, i.e. coined more than once.


crosslet

From Middle English crosselet, from Anglo-Norman croiselette; alternatively, cross + -let.

Then Vna gan to aske, if ought he knew, / Or heard abroad of that her champion trew, / That in his armour bare a croslet red.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(chiefly heraldry) A small cross with crossed arms.


cheatable

en-adj

cheatable (comparative more cheatable, superlative most cheatable)

more cheatable (comparative)
most cheatable (superlative)

(billiards, snooker, of a pocket) Able to be potted at either edge rather than in the middle


eyeshot

en-noun

eyeshot (usually uncountable, plural eyeshots)

From eye + shot, on the pattern of earshot.


hypersoft

(motor racing) Softer than ultrasoft, and therefore softer than supersoft.


false shower

(juggling) A pattern in which all the props (usually balls) are thrown in the same direction like a shower, but with the hands crossing and uncrossing.