He did a 900 off the halfpipe.

(sports) The act of spinning 900 degrees in the air, doing two and a half complete turns.


straight-sets

American Fish beat Frenchman Tsonga in a straight-sets victory.

(tennis, of a victory or a loss in a match) Achieved in the minimal possible number of sets.


kickflip

(skateboarding) An ollie where the board is rotated 360 degrees along its axis.


bunny-hop

en-verb

bunny-hop (third-person singular simple present bunny-hops, present participle bunny-hopping, simple past and past participle bunny-hopped)

bunny-hops (present singular third-person)
bunny-hopping (participle present)
bunny-hopped (participle past)
bunny-hopped (past)

The stunt cyclist bunny-hopped onto the table.

(cycling) To make a jump where both wheels leave the ground


regu

(sports) A standard group of three players in a sepak takraw team.


miniature golf

(golf) An informal form of golf, played with a putter on a short course featuring novelty obstacles.


brancher

From branch (noun) + -er. So called because of the bird still clinging to the branches while practising flying movements with the wings.

“What, ho! sir knave,” exclaimed Roland, “is it thus you feed the eyasse with unwashed meat, as if you were gorging the foul brancher of a worthless hoodie-crow, by the mass?[…]”

1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 83:

(falconry) A young owl or other raptor that is just too young to fly.


CF

en-noun

CF (countable and uncountable, plural CFs)

(baseball) Abbreviation of center field.

(baseball) Abbreviation of center fielder.


CF

(photography) Abbreviation of CompactFlash.

(photography) Abbreviation of CompactFast.


LB

(American football) Initialism of linebacker.


SG

SG (countable and uncountable, plural SGs)

(basketball) Initialism of shooting guard.


SG

(philately) Initialism of Stanley Gibbons, stamp dealer and catalogue publisher.


rangefinder

rangefinder camera
rangefinder camera#English

(photography) Abbreviation of rangefinder camera.


HB

(American football) Initialism of halfback.


three-legged race

three-legged race (plural three-legged races)

There's something for the whole family with events including cow pat throwing, sack races, three-legged races and more.

2021 December 5, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 27, column 3:

(games, athletics) A race in which a team of two players are joined together at opposite ankles, and must complete a short sprint before the other teams.


non-cut

(sports) Synonym of no-cut (“allowing an unlimited number of participants”)


fielding position

fielding position (plural fielding positions)

(cricket, baseball) Any of many named parts of the field of play at which fielders traditionally stand


trussing

Sable, a falcon or, his wings expanded, trussing a mallard argent, on a chief of the latter, a cross botoné[…]

1845, Hugh Clark, An Introduction to Heraldry ... Thirteenth edition. greatly improved, page 40:

A hawk trussing.

1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 247:

Examples of this will be found in the arms of Madden ["Sable, a hawk or, trussing a mallard proper, on a chief of the second a cross botonny gules"], and in the crests of Graham, Cawston, and Yerburgh.

1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, page 242:

(heraldry, of a bird) In the act of seizing (something).


highflier

(fishing) A vertical pole used in commercial fishing to locate the beginning and end of a long fishing line.


touchline

French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline.

2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:

Some kids were having a kickabout on the grass beside the walkway, cheering, groaning, calling for the ball, absorbed in the game, a self-contained universe marked out by jackets for goalposts and invisible touchlines.

2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 107:

sideline

in Canadian football, field lacrosse and basketball

(rugby, soccer) One of the lines that mark the border limits of the pitch.


supercharged

[...] And over all, an Inescutcheon Azure, the whole supercharged by a Saltire Argent.

1729, Abel Boyer, Le Grand théâtre de l'honneur et de noblesse [assisted by John Innes] Fr. & Eng., page 219:

The Moretuses took as their arms : Of gold with an eagle of sable charged upon his breast with a scutcheon of gules, supercharged with a star radiating with gold on a champaign checked with azure and five strokes silver.

1894, Max Rooses, Catalogue of the Plantin-Moretus Museum:

[...] is a blue cross supercharged with one of red, the whole enclosed by a blue [...]

1897, American Numismatic Society, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, page 39:


MUFC

Manchester United Football Club
w:Manchester United Football Club

(soccer) Initialism of Manchester United Football Club, a famous English football club from Manchester.


linkman

From link + -man. See link (“torch, light”).

(rugby) A player who uses speed and dexterity to keep an attacking team's downfield progress fluid.


orienteer

She is an expert orienteer.

(sports) Someone who takes part in the sport of orienteering.

定向運動

someone who takes part in the sport of orienteering


orienteer

en-verb

orienteer (third-person singular simple present orienteers, present participle orienteering, simple past and past participle orienteered)

orienteers (present singular third-person)
orienteering (participle present)
orienteered (participle past)
orienteered (past)

She travels worldwide to orienteer.

(sports) to race across unfamiliar countryside using a map and compass


mortise-and-tenon joint

en-noun

mortise-and-tenon joint (plural mortise-and-tenon joints)

A keyed mortise-and-tenon joint is constructed the same as a doweled mortise and tenon joint except that the tenon projects far enough through the mortise to admit the insertion of a tapering key which draws the mortised piece firmly against the shoulder of the tenon.

1918, Herman Frederick Rusch, Shop Work, Joinery-cabinet-making-carpentry, Chicago, Illinois, United States: University of Chicago Press, page 56:

(woodworking) A joint made by inserting a projecting tenon into a mortised slot.


Liga

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


non-league

Crawley missed two penalties but still edged out League Two Torquay to become the first non-league side to reach the FA Cup fifth round for 17 years.

2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Torquay 0 - 1 Crawley Town”, in BBC:

(British, soccer) Playing in a division below The Football League, being amateur or semi-professional teams.


astrophotographer

(astronomy, photography) A person, especially an astronomer, who takes photographs of the stars


unseeded

(sports) Not being a seed, not being in a seed position.


estoile

Old French, from Latin stēlla. Doublet of étoile, stella, star, and aster.

doublet

(heraldry) A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, as opposed to the straight lines of a mullet.


basketball hoop

en-noun

basketball hoop (plural basketball hoops)

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

(sports) The hoop, holding a string net, through which the basketball must be placed to score


orthophotography

During the past three decades, orthophotography has become an increasingly popular and useful tool for land managers. As quality and availability improve, this trend will continue. Orthophotography combines the planimetric precision of maps with the wealth of detail found on aerial photographs.

2012, David P. Paine, James D. Kiser, chapter 8, in Aerial Photography and Image Interpretation, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

(photography) Geometrical correction of aerial photographs so that displayed distances are uniform and can be measured like a map.

ορθοφωτογραφία

the technology of correcting aerial photographs so that displayed distances are uniform and can be measured like a map


fallaway

(basketball) Of a shot, taken while moving away from the basket.


fallaway

(basketball) A shot taken while moving away from the basket.


handball

handball (countable and uncountable, plural handballs)

→ Portuguese: andebol

sport involving bouncing a ball off a wall

It was a dramatic finish to an absorbing, fast-paced game but Blackburn will be deeply unhappy with referee Anthony Taylor as Nzonzi's handball was harsh.

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

(countable, soccer) The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.


handball

en-verb

handball (third-person singular simple present handballs, present participle handballing, simple past and past participle handballed)

handballs (present singular third-person)
handballing (participle present)
handballed (participle past)
handballed (past)

If the defender handballs in the penalty area, a penalty is awarded.

(soccer) To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.


third down

(American football) The third down in a series that has a maximum of four downs; traditionally the last running/passing play before punting.


second down

(American football) The second down in a series that has a maximum of four downs.


lampwork

(glassblowing) A method for working with blown glass that does not require a furnace.

(glassblowing) Glass pieces made by this method.

(glassblowing) The activity of producing glass pieces using this method.


red zone

(American football) The area extending twenty yards from the end zone, where a team in possession of the ball is expected to score.


fourth down

Mahomes converted key fourth downs with his legs and looked to Kelce throughout the second half and overtime – the tight end finished with nine receptions and 93 yards after just one catch in the opening half.

2024 February 12, Ben Morse and Steve Almasy, “Kansas City Chiefs defeat San Francisco 49ers in OT in Super Bowl LVIII, become first back-to-back NFL champions in 19 years”, in CNN.com:

(American football) The fourth down in a series that has a maximum of four downs; often used to punt the ball downfield or attempt a field goal (If not punted or converted, the opposing team takes possession wherever the ball is).


press box

In major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level.

2006, George Gmelch, J.J. Weiner, In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People, →ISBN, page 151:

(sports) The section in a stadium or arena set aside for the press, or specifically for sportscasters.


uprights

(American football, rugby) Vertical (upright) posts of the goal.


normoxic

(underwater diving) Describing a breathing gas mixture that contains 21% oxygen, the same amount as in normal air.


reach-around

(basketball) A passing style in which the ballhandler performs a crossover step in the direction of the intended pass and then extends his or her arms to throw the pass around the defender.


XFL

Xtreme Football League
w:en:Xtreme Football League

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

Extreme Football League
w:en:Extreme Football League

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


MMA

en-noun

MMA (countable and uncountable, plural MMAs)

Mark Zuckerberg shares photos from the hospital after undergoing knee surgery for a torn ACL suffered during MMA training.

2023 November 4, “Mark Zuckerberg tears ACL while training for MMA fight early next year”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

mixed martial arts
mixed martial arts#English

(martial arts, sports) Initialism of mixed martial arts.


attackman

(sports) A player in a position whose primary responsibility is offense.


transfer window

transfer window (plural transfer windows)

Gary Cahill, a target for Arsenal and Tottenham before the transfer window closed, put England ahead early on and Rooney was on target twice before the interval as the early hostility of the Bulgarian supporters was swiftly subdued.

2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:

(soccer) A period of time during the year in which soccer players may be bought or sold between professional clubs.

Wechselperiode

period during which transfers can be made of players between soccer clubs


DCS

decompression sickness
decompression sickness#English

(underwater diving) Initialism of decompression sickness.


chanceless

en-adj

chanceless (comparative more chanceless, superlative most chanceless)

more chanceless (comparative)
most chanceless (superlative)

(cricket, not comparable) Without a chance of being dismissed.


knuckleballer

(baseball) A baseball pitcher known for throwing knuckleballs.


reremouse

From Middle English reremous, from Old English hrēremūs, hrœ̄remūs (“bat”). By surface analysis, rear (“to move, shake, stir”) + mouse.

surf

Argent, a reremouse sable,[…]

(rare, archaic, poetic or heraldry) A bat (flying mammal).


eightpence

[…] I went for a night to a lodging-house in Bow, where the charge was only eightpence.

1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:

(historical, numismatics) A former coin worth eight pence; the monetary amount of eight pence.


EN

en-noun

EN (countable and uncountable, plural ENs)

(ice hockey, floorball) Initialism of empty net.


leashed

In the registration for William, Earl of Dundonald, 1672-78, the same person, the boars' heads are armed and langued of the field, and the supporters are collared or and leashed gules.

1881, Robert Riddle Stodart, Scottish Arms: Being a Collection of Armorial Bearings, A.D. 1370-1678, Reproduced in Fascimile from Contemporary Manuscripts, page 59:

[...] a sleuthhound proper, collared and leashed gules.

1895, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority, page 783:

[...] on the dexter a greyhound proper collared and leashed gules, on the sinister an ostrich proper, in its beak a horse shoe azure.

1900, The Celtic Monthly: A Magazine for Highlanders, page 169:

Supporters; Two greyhounds per fess argent and or, collared and leashed gules, suspended from the collar, a shield azure , charged with the Speaker's Mace in pale or; and each charged on the flank with a thistle proper.

1902, Lincoln's Inn (London, England), The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn, page 377:

(heraldry) Having a leash of a specified color.


prusik

Named for Austrian mountaineer Karl Prusik.

(climbing, chiefly attributive) A type of friction hitch.


prusik

en-verb

prusik (third-person singular simple present prusiks, present participle prusiking, simple past and past participle prusiked)

prusiks (present singular third-person)
prusiking (participle present)
prusiked (participle past)
prusiked (past)

(climbing) To climb a rope using a prusik.


LBJ

LBJ scores six meaningless points in last forty-five seconds while Warriors keep a seven- to eleven-point lead.

2020, Robert Scoop Jackson, The Game is Not a Game […] , Haymarket Books, →ISBN:

(sports, NBA) Initialism of LeBron James.


victory lane

(motor racing) The place where the winner of a motor race goes to celebrate victory after an event.


goal difference

en-noun

goal difference (plural goal differences)

The hosts went close on several occasions with Victor Obinna and Robbie Keane impressive in the first half, yet they had trouble carving out many clear openings and the defeat leaves them at the bottom of the Premier League on goal difference, two points from safety.

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

England will qualify for the semi-finals if they beat Scotland on Tuesday and the Netherlands drop points in their final match with Belgium.
However, even if the Netherlands beat Belgium at home, England could still go through if they defeat the Scots by a sufficiently large scoreline to take their goal difference above the Dutch.

2023 December 1, Emma Sanders, “England 3-2 Netherlands”, in BBC Sport:

(sports) The difference between the number of goals scored and the number of goals conceded, over the duration of a competition.


Paralympics

Blend of para- (as in paraplegia or parallel (as preferred by the International Paralympic Committee itself, according to Snopes)) + Olympics

blend

At present, however, the Long Beach resident has more than records on his mind, mainly getting a representative U.S. team to the 1964 "paralympics" to be held in Tokyo Nov. 8–12. [Frank] Vecera is on a fund-raising drive for the six California athletes selected to perform on this year's team. The tab for transporting the six to Tokyo is $3,900.

1964 August 20, “Funds sought for ‘Paralympian’ trip”, in Nick B[oddie] Williams, editor, Los Angeles Times, volume LXXXIII, number 250, Los Angeles, Calif.: Times Mirror Company, →OCLC, part III (Sports), page 8, columns 2–3:

Paralympic Games
Paralympic Games#English

(sports) Synonym of Paralympic Games (“an international sports competition participated in by sportspeople with physical disabilities, which is held every four years as a counterpart of the Olympic Games and nowadays at the same venue”)

paralympiáda

synonym of Paralympic Games — see also Paralympic Games


reweight

en-verb

reweight (third-person singular simple present reweights, present participle reweighting, simple past and past participle reweighted)

reweights (present singular third-person)
reweighting (participle present)
reweighted (participle past)
reweighted (past)

(horseracing) To adjust or reassign the handicap weight.


DSLD

suspensory ligament
suspensory ligament#English

(pathology, equestrianism) Initialism of degenerative suspensory ligament desmitis, an equine skeletal disorder characterized by a hyperabundance of a certain proteoglycan in equine connective tissue which causes degeneration and eventually death.

equine systemic proteoglycan accumulation


end-to-end

But rather than the end-to-end action of the first half, much of the entertainment took place in the Sunderland third.

2011 February 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Sunderland 2 - 4 Chelsea”, in BBC:

(soccer) Smoothly alternating between attacking and defensive plays.


respectant

French, present participle of respecter.

The sun is surmounted on either side by two white lions, respectant and sitting on an orange scroll inscribed UTMOST OF OUR ABILITY in gold letters.

(heraldry, numismatics) Placed so as to face one another; face to face.


flottant

[…] gules; second, Azure, a sinister hand a paumee, couped, in pale, argent; third, Or, a galley, sails furled, oars in action, sable, flags flottant, gules; fourth, Argent, out of a mount in base, an oak-tree, vert[…]

1856, David MacGregor Peter, The baronage of Angus and Mearns, page 96:

[…] with tassels flottant upwards or; […]

1881, Scottish Arms, Being a Collection of Armorial Bearings A. D. 1370-1678, page 264:

[…] each surrounded by a banner flottant from the sides, the dexter flag charged with a cross, the sinister with a saltire, gules. The badge of the Order of St. Patrick is prescribed by the statutes of the Order, 28th February, 1783, wherein the saltire gules[…]

1903, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 417:


lapper

June 2006, RoadRacingWorld.com - Stanton Tops Formula Pacific Podium In Fourth Round Of AFM Racing At Thunderhill
After he tangled with the lapper I thought, ‘Man, that sucks’,” Dorsey explained. “Then I realized I was in the lead! I was going to just cruise home.

(sports) A competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front.


renverse

From Old French renverser. Equivalent to re- + inverse.

Samuel Coggan. Lisbon, May 19, 1712; letter to David Jeffries de Co. Round seal, a lion rampant renversé.

1877, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, page 58:

The arms [on the 1790 Gelderland duit] may be thus blazoned: Party per pale, 1. azure, a lion rampant or, armed and langued gules, 2. or, a lion rampant renverse sable, armed and langued as before.

1909, Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon, Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon, page 218:

(heraldry, dated) Backwards, contourné, facing the opposite direction (sinister/dexter) than usual.


urinant

From Latin ūrīnāns, present active participle of ūrīnor (“I dive”).

On a chapeau gules, guarded ermine, a gurnet (fish) urinant proper.

1866, John Edwin Cussans, The Grammar of Heraldry: Containing a Description of All the Principal Charges Used in Armory, the Signification of Heraldic Terms, and the Rules to be Observed in Blazoning and Marshalling ; Together with the Armorial Bearings of All the Landed Gentry in England Prior to the Sixteenth Century, page 84:

2) gules, in bend two fish, urinant and hauriant, respectively, argent, their fins "dark azure" (sic).

1992, Donald R. Mandich, Joseph Anthony Placek, Russian Heraldry and Nobility, Dramco:

Azure, three trout interlaced in triangle: the chiefmost naiant, one urinant in bend, and one haurient in bend sinister, all argent.

2006, Encyclopedia Americana: Heart to India:

(heraldry): Of a fish: oriented vertically, with the head to base and tail to chief, as if positioned for diving.


free-diver

(underwater diving) A practitioner of free-diving.


cage match

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling) An event in which wrestlers battle in an enclosed location, escaping over the top to win.


rebreather

(underwater diving) A breathing apparatus that recycles expelled air, removing carbon dioxide and thus allowing extended use of a supply of air.

a similar device that does not recycle expelled air


EF

(philately) Initialism of extremely fine or extra fine; also XF.


PF

en-noun

PF (countable and uncountable, plural PFs)

(basketball) Initialism of personal foul.

(basketball) Initialism of power forward.

Coordinate term: PA

The Giants and Commanders have the same record after 13 games each. However, Washington has control of third place in the NFC East due to a better PF/PA record in comparison to the Giants.

2022 December 14, “NFL Playoff picture Week 15: Are the New York Giants still in contention for the postseason?”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2022-12-17:

(American football, fantasy football) Initialism of points for.


rallye

A car that wins such a rallye uses its victory to convince potential purchasers that it can cope with difficult driving conditions.

1969, Charles Winick, The New People: Desexualization in American Life:


drop the gloves

en-verb

drop the gloves (third-person singular simple present drops the gloves, present participle dropping the gloves, simple past and past participle dropped the gloves)

drops the gloves (present singular third-person)
dropping the gloves (participle present)
dropped the gloves (participle past)
dropped the gloves (past)

From the practice of ice hockey players of removing their heavy gloves before striking blows in fistfights.

Nobody used to care when players such as John Ferguson, Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe and Maurice Richard dropped the gloves, because they could play the game, too.

2007 March 27, Mike Brophy, “Getting rid of the goons”, in Globe and Mail, Canada, retrieved 2008-10-14:

(Canada and US, ice hockey, idiomatic) To fight.


TPC

Tournament Players Club
w:Tournament Players Club

(golf) Initialism of Tournament Players Club.


kneeboard

(surfing) A short (often less than 6'), broad (sometimes extremely broad) surfboard designed to be ridden in the surf in a kneeling position, and often having traction pads in the central area as an alternative to wax, to help the knees grip the deck.


repassant

Compare French repassant, present participle.

[...] Hee beareth, Sable, two lyoncels, the one paffant, the other repassant, Argent, both collared, Gules, but in mine opinion no man by this last blazon is able to tricke, or expresse the true portraiture and manner of the bearing of these lioncels, […]

1638, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldrie, page 194:

REPASSANT, a. [...] in her., term applied when two lions or other animals are borne going contrary ways, one of which is passant, by walking toward the dexter side of the shield in the usual way, and the other repassant by going toward the sinister.

1891, Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and Language, page 23:

[…] To the right of the window is the image of a single passant repassant lion, which marches along the decorative[…]

1995, Lynn Anne Jones, Between Byzantium and Islam: Royal Iconography and the Church of the Holy Cross at Aghtamar:


fakie

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

(skateboarding, snowboarding) The riding backwards of the board, in the opposite stance.


drop shot

deixada

a lightly struck shot that lands just in play

(sports) In sports such as badminton, squash, tennis and volleyball, a lightly-struck shot that just lands into play.

(golf) A downward chopping shot used to extract a ball that lies deep in the grass.


masoned

(heraldry, of a building) Having the mortar and bricks of different tinctures.


affrontant

[...] an escarbuncle perse pometty argent Azure, a lion passant gardant argent Gules, two lions affrontant or Azure,[…]

2019, Roy Osborne, Renaissance Colour Symbolism, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 60:


affronté

Borrowed from French affronté, past participle of affronter (“to confront, face”).

... viz. quarterly, first and fourth gules, on a cheveron argent, a rose betwixt two lions affronté gules, for Hepburn; second and third argent, an orle gules, and in chief three martlets sable, for Rutherford; crest, a horse[…]

1804, Alexander Nisbet, A system of heraldry, speculative and practical: with the true art of Blazon ... Illustrated with suitable examples of armorial figures, and achievements of the most considerable surnames and families in Scotland ..., page 163:

[…] earliest designs were geometric, birds affronté (facing one another), peacocks, pomegranates, unicorns, pelicans, and […]

1910, Amy Milton Kohlsaat, Old Lace Manual, page 11:

(heraldry) Face to face, or with the fronts facing each other.

The crest of SCOTLAND [ - A lion affronté gules, crowned imperially Or, in the dexter paw a sceptre erect, surmounted by a fleur de lis gold; in the[…] ]

[…]; and (5) an ostrich feather with a scroll on the quill reading “Sovereign”, supported by a lion sejeant-affronté (seated, looking towards the viewer), but with the dexter paw holding the quill (Rothery, p.202).

2010 01, Wm. E. Baumgaertner, Squires, Knights, Barons, Kings: War and Politics in Fifteenth Century England, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:

(heraldry) Looking frontwise, or toward the viewer.


allonge

Borrowed from French allonge (“a lengthening”). Doublet of lunge.


battery mate

(baseball) One who plays in the same battery, either the pitcher or the catcher.


sac fly

(baseball) A sacrifice fly, a fly out which allows a runner to advance a base.


slugging percentage

en-noun

slugging percentage (plural slugging percentages)

(baseball) A statistic which compares the total number of bases achieved by a batter over that batter's number of at bats.


slugging average

slugging average (plural slugging averages)


membered

armed

sometimes birds are described as armed instead

(heraldry, of a bird) Having legs of a different tincture from that of the body.


TTT

(cycling) Initialism of team time trial.


(sports, snowboarding, skiing) Clipping of 1440. (1440° spin)


red line

(ice hockey) The thick red line on the ice which divides the rink in half.


dormie

(golf) In match play, leading the match by the same number of holes as remain to be played.


semé

(heraldry) Sprinkled, sown, strewn: said of a field or charge when strewn with small (identical) charges.


COL

United States of America
United States of America#English

(sports) Abbreviation of Colorado (a state of the United States of America).


diapositive

(photography, graphic arts) An image suitable to overlay (superimpose) over another (as for example a gel for an overhead projector, a slide that complements another slide as a superimposition for it, or a digital virtual equivalent of these); its coloration is adjusted to contrast with the underlying image (for example, text may be white instead of black in areas where the background is dark).


combattant

From Middle English combattant, from Middle French combattant. Doublet of combatant.

VISCOUNT LORTON bears gu., two lions combattant, supporting a dexter hand.

1892, Charles Boutell, Heraldry, Ancient and Modern: Including Boutell's Heraldry, page 81:

(heraldry) In fighting position; said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.


cabré

From French cabré, from cabrer (“to rear up”).

[...] 2, gules, two joined hands proper, parée purple, accompanied by three stars or (two in chief, and one in base); 3, gules, a horse, cabré argent; 4, azure, a ship with three masts proper, sails inflated,[…]

1907, Cyrus Adler, Isidore Singer, 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 130:


chaussé

en-adj

chaussé (comparative more chaussé, superlative most chaussé)

more chaussé (comparative)
most chaussé (superlative)

Borrowing from French chaussé. Doublet of calceate.

(heraldry) Divided into three with two lines from the corners of the chief to the point in base.


dibbly-dobbler

Sri Lanka's seamers, like their dibbly-dobblers of yesteryear, gave the speedometer a day off, their deliveries rarely touching 80mph.

2006 May 11, Charlie Austin, “Sri Lanka's defective Plan B: What went wrong for Sri Lanka on the first day at Lord's”, in Cricinfo, archived from the original on 2016-05-07:


scissor kick

There were few complains[complaints] from Arteta or his players when Vieira was dismissed for a reckless challenge on Brownhill, but Zinchenko's scissor kick nine minutes earlier had all but ended Burnley's hopes of salvaging a point.

2023 November 11, Matthew Howarth, “Arsenal 3-1 Burnley”, in BBC Sport:

(swimming) A leg movement in which the legs are separated and brought together with a snap.


rompu

Borrowed from French rompu, past participle of rompre to break, Latin rumpō. See rupture.

Coordinate term: fracted

(heraldry) Broken, as an ordinary; cut off, or broken at the top, as a chevron, a bend, etc.


billiard table

(sports, billiards, snooker) A heavy felt-covered table fitted with six pockets along the perimeter used in the games of pool, billiards or snooker.


hit a six

en-verb

hit a six (third-person singular simple present hits a six, present participle hitting a six, simple past and past participle hit a six)

hits a six (present singular third-person)
hitting a six (participle present)
hit a six (participle past)
hit a six (past)

(cricket) To hit the ball hard enough to go out of the boundary of the field without touching the ground, thereby scoring the maximum of six runs


hit someone for six

hit someone for six (third-person singular simple present hits someone for six, present participle hitting someone for six, simple past and past participle hit someone for six)

hits someone for six (present singular third-person)
hitting someone for six (participle present)
hit someone for six (participle past)
hit someone for six (past)

From cricket, where hitting the ball over the boundary without it bouncing scores six runs, the maximum for one shot.

(cricket) To score six points against (a bowler) by hitting the ball over the boundary.


scrummage

(rugby) An ordered formation of forwards, typically bending down, binding to one another with their arms, and pushing opponents shoulder to shoulder, in which each side aims to gain control of the ball; a scrum.


scrummage

scrummage (third-person singular simple present scrummages, present participle scrummaging, simple past and past participle scrummaged)

scrummages (present singular third-person)
scrummaging (participle present)
scrummaged (participle past)
scrummaged (past)

(rugby) To engage in an ordered formation of forwards in which each side aims to gain control of the ball, as described above.


seadog

(heraldry) A charge resembling the talbot but with scales, webbed feet and a broad tail.


throwdown

Deverbal from throw down. Fight and music senses from earlier idiom throw down the gauntlet (“issue a challenge”).

(slang, wrestling) A fall, indicating defeat.

a hip-hop throwdown

(slang, hip-hop) A performance by a rapper or DJ that is intended to be particularly hardcore or intense.


away team

Comparisons were made between the home and away team's number of fouls and violations.

1960, Peter Lynn Kasson, An Analysis of College Basketball Officiating, page 25:

During this analysis, it became apparent that the home team seemed to be receiving proportionately greater generosity from the referee than the away team.

1997, Jens Bangsbo, Thomas Reilly, Mike Hughes, Science and Football III: Proceedings of the Third World Congress of Science:

They also echo Jennett (1984), in using a variable measuring away team market size.

2000, Paul Downward, Alistair Dawson, The Economics of Professional Team Sports:

In 56 games, the home team was favored and the away team won.

2005, Susan B. Gerber, Using SPSS for Windows: Data Analysis and Graphics, page 79:

He found no differences between home and away team performances when spectators cheered before the start of a play.

2007, Sophia Jowett, David Lavallee, Social Psychology in Sport, page 108:

(sports) The visiting team; the team that is playing away from home.


visiting team

(sports) The team in a sport that has traveled out of its home area to play, as opposed to the home team.


drag race

Did you watch the drag race on Sunday?

(motor racing) A race in a car or on a motorcycle to be first to cross a set finish line.


drag race

drag race (third-person singular simple present drag races, present participle drag racing, simple past and past participle drag raced)

drag races (present singular third-person)
drag racing (participle present)
drag raced (participle past)
drag raced (past)

(motor racing) To participate in a drag race.


magic carpet

The relaunch of the railway comes alongside other major improvement works including new 'magic carpet' conveyor belts for skiers using the beginner slopes.

2023 April 5, “News in pictures: New livery adorns Cairngorm funicular”, in RAIL, number 980, page 28:

(skiing) A conveyor belt to transport skiers/snowboarders.


road game

Road travel is usually necessary to reach the venue.

(US, sports) An athletic contest played in the opposing team's geographic area.


home game

(idiomatic, sports) An athletic contest played in a team's own geographic area.

kotiottelu

athletic contest played on a team's own turf


away game

(idiomatic, sports) An athletic contest played away from the team's home field.

vieraspeli

athletic contest played in the opposing team's territory


check mark

(athletics) In long jump, javelin and similar events, little mark alongside the runway which helps the athlete to set their steps just right for their performance.


flatlander

ridge-runner

antonym(s) of “person who was born or raised by someone outside low altitude mountainous regions”


pair of spectacles

en-noun

pair of spectacles (plural pairs of spectacles)

(cricket) Synonym of pair (“score of zero runs in both innings”)


training wheel

From training (“relating to the moving of a firearm laterally so that it points in a different direction; relating to imparting and acquiring skills”) + wheel.

compound

(chiefly Canada, US and in the plural, cycling) One of a pair of small wheels, each attached to one side of a bicycle's rear wheel to provide support for new riders.

輔助輪

one of a pair of small wheels, each attached to one side of a bicycle’s rear wheel to provide support for new riders — see also stabilizer


factory-backed

(motor racing, of a team) Wholly or substantially supported by financial or technical backing from a car manufacturer, but not necessarily contracted to it.


cendrée

grey:

(heraldry, rare) Grey, ashen; the blazoning term for grey.


400 metres

(athletics) A sprint race over 400 metres.


800 metres

(athletics) A middle-distance running race over 800 metres.


madison

Madison (dance)
Madison Avenue
Madison Square Garden
madison (cycling)

The cycling race is named after the original Madison Square Garden in New York, where the first such events were held. The dance is reportedly named after Madison Avenue, also in New York.


1500 metres

(athletics) A middle-distance running race over 1500 metres.


show jumper

(equestrianism) A (human or horse) participant in show jumping


(American football) A player for the San Francisco 49ers, an NFL team.

(sports) A student or player on a sports team at California State University, Long Beach (more commonly known as “Long Beach State”, founded in 1849).

(sports) A student or player on a sports team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (more commonly known as “Charlotte” in a sports context).


100 metres

(athletics) A sprint race over 100 metres.


5000 metres

(athletics) A long-distance running race over 5000 metres.


200 metres

(athletics) A sprint race over 200 metres.


10000 metres

(athletics) A long-distance running race over 10,000 metres.


horizontal bar

(gymnastics) A horizontally-aligned bar used in gymnastics, upon which acts of swinging are performed.

висилка

(gymnastics) A gymnastics event using the horizontal bar.


frigger

(glassblowing) An object made by a glassmaker (or, later, other craftsmen), as an ornament, a testing sample, or a test of skill.


diving knife

(underwater diving) a type of knife used by divers, with a wide, serrated blade.


hangtime

(skateboarding, American football) The length of time something can stay in the air.


drop punt

Australian rules football
Australian rules football

(Australian rules football, rugby) A kick made by dropping the ball and kicking it before it touches the ground.


fat

en-adj

fat (comparative fatter, superlative fattest)

fatter (comparative)
fattest (superlative)

Of sense: lean

carrying a larger than normal amount of fat; antonym(s) of

Sranan Tongo: fatu

From Middle English fat, from Old English fǣtt (“fatted, fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *faitid (“fatted”), originally the past participle of the verb *faitijan (“to make fat”), from *fait (“fat”).

chubby

Hitting a thin shot from a fairway bunker is more productive than hitting a fat shot.

1992, DeDe Owens, Linda K. Bunker, Advanced Golf: Steps to Success, page 81:

(golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.


fat

Sranan Tongo: fatu

From Middle English fat, fatt, fatte, from the adjective above, and possibly from Old English fǣt (“fat”, recorded once), from Proto-West Germanic *fait, from Proto-Germanic *faitą, *faitaz (“fat”).

lard

in animals; derogatory slang when used of human fat

grease

substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat

(golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)


fat

en-verb

fat (third-person singular simple present fats, present participle fatting, simple past and past participle fatted)

fats (present singular third-person)
fatting (participle present)
fatted (participle past)
fatted (past)

“On this one hole, Donald hits his second and fats it into the water,” Faxon remembers. “But he quickly says to me, ‘Hey, throw me another ball; they weren’t looking.’ So I do. But he fats that one into the water, too. So he drives up and drops where he should’ve dropped the first time and hits it on the green.”

2019 April 2, Rick Reilly, How and why President Trump cheats at golf — even when he’s playing against Tiger Woods, archived from the original on 2022-03-29:

(transitive, golf) To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.


DCI

decompression illness
w:decompression illness

(underwater diving) Initialism of decompression illness.


ball machine

(tennis) A machine that shoots tennis balls out of a pipe, allowing a player to practise hitting them.


come from behind

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

comes from behind (present singular third-person)
coming from behind (participle present)
came from behind (past)
come from behind (participle past)

Chelsea kept their faint Premier League title hopes alive and damaged Manchester United's own ambitions as they came from behind to beat the leaders at Stamford Bridge.

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

(sports) To be in a winning position after having been in a losing position.


snowboard cross

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(snowboarding) A downhill snowboard race over obstacles with many simultaneous racers.


synchronized swimmer

en-noun

synchronized swimmer (plural synchronized swimmers)

synchronized swimming
synchronized swimming

(swimming) Someone who practices synchronized swimming.

Synchronschwimmer

someone who practices synchronized swimming


boardercross

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I knew Jamie went in for boardercross racing sometimes, but that wasn't really my thing. Boardercross is like motocross on a snowboard; riders race down the hill, and it's more about speed than style.

2010, Erin Thomas, Boarder Patrol, page 3:

(snowboarding) Synonym of snowboard cross


high-sticking

(ice hockey) A penalized action in the sport of ice hockey where a player knowingly or inadvertently raises (the hand-grip part of) his stick above shoulder level.


star trail

The idea behind photographing star trails is wonderfully simple. Just take your old mechanical camera, point it skyward, and leave the shutter open.

2001, Eric DeBolt, “Happy Trails”, in Astronomy, volume 29, number 7, page 74:

(astronomy, photography) The line of light recorded on a photographic medium when a time exposure is made of a star in the nighttime sky using a camera on a fixed mount, caused by the rotation of the earth during the period of time when the camera's shutter is held open.


dump out

en-verb

dump out (third-person singular simple present dumps out, present participle dumping out, simple past and past participle dumped out)

dumps out (present singular third-person)
dumping out (participle present)
dumped out (participle past)
dumped out (past)

(transitive, ice hockey, of a defensive player) To gain control of the puck and shoot it into the neutral zone.


CIAU

(Canada, sports) Initialism of Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union: now called CIS - Canadian Interuniversity Sport.


Anfield

Possibly from Middle English hange + feld, field (see field).

(soccer) A football stadium within the area, home of Liverpool Football Club.

(soccer, by extension) Liverpool Football club itself.


linksland

en-noun

linksland (usually uncountable, plural linkslands)

(golf) A golf course near the sea, particularly one with terrain resembling linksland.


professional sport

professional sport (plural professional sports)

Ice hockey is a professional sport at the top level.

(sports) Sport in which athletes receive payment for their performance.


hockey tape

(ice hockey) fabric tape used to wrap the hockey blade of a hockey stick


hockey bag

(ice hockey) A large bag for all the equipment of a hockey player: hockey skates, hockey stick, shin pads, shoulder pads, helmet, puck, etc.


hockey net

(ice hockey) a goal cage that contains the scoring zone where the hockey puck must enter to score a goal


goal judge

(ice hockey) an ice hockey official who judges whether pucks enter the net and sits directly behind the goal, triggering a red light and siren when a goal is scored.


slap shot

(ice hockey) The fastest shot in hockey, which typically involves levering the stick above the head before swinging it down to strike the puck with maximum power.


hip check

(ice hockey) a maneuver performed by an ice hockey player to take another player out of the play; a maneuver whereby the performer uses his hip to crash into another player, to check their movement


hip check

en-verb

hip check (third-person singular simple present hip checks, present participle hip checking, simple past and past participle hip checked)

hip checks (present singular third-person)
hip checking (participle present)
hip checked (participle past)
hip checked (past)


cross check

(ice hockey) An illegal maneuver whereby an ice hockey player hits and pushes another player with their ice hockey stick while holding the stick with both hands, with no part of the hockey stick touching the ice surface.


cross check

cross check (third-person singular simple present cross checks, present participle cross checking, simple past and past participle cross checked)

cross checks (present singular third-person)
cross checking (participle present)
cross checked (participle past)
cross checked (past)


shut out

shut out (third-person singular simple present shuts out, present participle shutting out, simple past and past participle shut out)

shuts out (present singular third-person)
shutting out (participle present)
shut out (participle past)
shut out (past)

(sports) To prevent from scoring; to perform a shutout.


hockey puck

(ice hockey) A small black flat roundel of hardened rubber used as a playing piece in ice hockey to score points by moving the puck into the opponent's goal net.


student body

student body left

student body right

(American football slang) A football play in which most of the players run to one side of the field.


windboard

(climbing, skiing) The hard crust formed by high winds on exposed snow.


Hab

(ice hockey) A member of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team.


FCB

(soccer) Initialism of FC Barcelona, a famous Spanish sports club from Barcelona, best known for its football (soccer) section; from Catalan FCB (“Futbol Club Barcelona”).

FC Barcelona

(soccer) Initialism of FC Bayern Munich, a famous German football (soccer) team from Munich.


audax

(cycling) A non-competitive long-distance (often over 200 km) cycling event.


sis boom bah

(US, cheerleading) An exclamation of encouragement.


VOR

video operation room
w:Video assistant referee

video assistant referee
video assistant referee

association football
association football

(soccer) Initialism of video operation room, part of the set-up for the video assistant referee (VAR) in association football.


hung up

en-adj

hung up (comparative more hung up, superlative most hung up)

more hung up (comparative)
most hung up (superlative)

Snap throw to first, and they’ve got Sanchez hung up.

(baseball, of a runner, not comparable) In a position such that the path to the desired base is blocked by a fielder holding the ball; caught in a rundown.


wrist shot

That wrist shot completely fooled the defenders.

(ice hockey) A shot that involves using the arm muscles, predominantly the wrist, to propel the puck using the concave side of the blade.

(golf) A short stroke usually played with an iron, from the wrist, without swinging the club over the shoulder.


hook shot

(basketball) A shot in which the offensive player gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head.

(cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height; a hook.

(golf) Synonym of hook (“a shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left”)

hook

(cricket) Synonym of hook (“shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side”)


mongo

push mongo

(skateboarding) A manner of pushing oneself on a skateboard with one's front foot as opposed to one's back foot.


cynegetic

cynegetic (comparative more cynegetic, superlative most cynegetic)

more cynegetic (comparative)
most cynegetic (superlative)

/ˌsɪniːˈd͡ʒɛtɪk/

PIE word
 *ḱwṓ
Borrowed from Greek κυνηγετικός (kynigetikós, “of or relating to hunting”). Κυνηγετικός (Kynigetikós) is inherited from Ancient Greek κῠνηγετῐκός (kunēgetikós), from κυνηγέτης (kunēgétēs, “hunter”) + -ῐκός (-ikós, suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives); and κυνηγέτης (kunēgétēs) from κύων (kúōn, “dog”) (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ (“dog”)) + ἡγέτης (hēgétēs, “leader”) (ultimately from ἡγέομαι (hēgéomai, “to lead”), possibly from ᾰ̓́γω (ágō, “to guide; to lead”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”) or *seh₂g- (“to seek out”)).

ref

From the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

bor

Hail Oppian, prime of cynegetic race, / From Maro [i.e., Virgil] dovvn to him vvho ſounds the Chace: […]

1763, James Elphinston, “Book the Third”, in Education, in Four Books, London: […] P[aul] Vaillant, […]; W[illiam] Owen, […]; and J. Richardson, […], →OCLC, page 88, lines 430–431:

Give me the hippic—the philippic taste, / All else a wilderness, and man a waste; / Give me the turf, and cynegetic sport, / The zeal, the jealousy, and zest of court; […]

1836, The Tribunal of Manners, a Satyricon, London: J[ames] Ridgway and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 58:

The Roman authors, especially the cynegetic poets, have given descriptions of the different British dogs; the Scotch terrier is accurately described by Oppian; and Irish wolf dogs were brought to Rome about the fourth century.

1836 November 9, John Scouler, “Remarks on the Natural History of the Fossil Elk”, in Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin, volume I, number [III], Dublin: […] P[hilip] Dixon Hardy [for the Geological Society of Dublin], […], published 1838, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 200:

But as there are no lions, wolves, nor wild boars in Great Britain, he [the poet James Thomson] admonishes the British youth to indulge their cynegetic propensities in the fox-chase, which he describes con amore [with love].

1838, William H[amilton] Drummond, “Man’s Right to Hunting and Fishing”, in The Rights of Animals, and Man’s Obligation to Treat Them with Humanity, London: John Mardon, […]; Smallfield and Son, and Green, […]; Dublin: Hodges and Smith, →OCLC, page 36:

"Come, Diana [a dog]," said he; "come, my girl! thou whose destiny will be marked in the cynegetic annals; […] thou who art rushing into interplanetary space, and wilt perhaps be the Eve of all Selenite dogs! come, Diana, come here."

1873, Jules Verne, “Round the Moon: A Sequel to From the Earth to the Moon. Chapter III. Their Place of Shelter.”, in Louis Mercier [i.e., Lewis Page Mercier], Eleanor E[lizabeth] King, transl., From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: And a Trip Round It. […], New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, published 1874, →OCLC, page 170:

The cynegetic life is authentic because it is close to the philosophical center of human life. It constantly contrasts two central mysteries: the nature of the animal and of death. These are brought together in hunting.

1973, Paul Shepard, “Hunting as a Way of Life”, in The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 259:

In the Sophist, Plato emphasizes the fact that hunting cannot be reduced to tracking wild animals. Among the different branches of the cynegetic art there is also an art of manhunting, which is in turn subdivided into several categories: "Let us define piracy, manstealing, tyranny, the whole military art, by one name, as hunting with violence."

2012, Grégoire Chamayou, “The Hunt for Bipedal Cattle”, in Steven Rendall, transl., Manhunts: A Philosophical History, Princeton, N.J.; Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 5:

(hunting, rare) Of or relating to hunting (especially with dogs).


flutterball

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(baseball) A type of pitch; knuckleball.


organized baseball

(baseball) Major League Baseball and its associated minor leagues. This does not include amateur leagues, most professional international leagues, the former Negro Leagues, and independent leagues.


rag the puck

en-verb

rag the puck (third-person singular simple present rags the puck, present participle ragging the puck, simple past and past participle ragged the puck)

rags the puck (present singular third-person)
ragging the puck (participle present)
ragged the puck (participle past)
ragged the puck (past)

So confident and serene were the Red Wings that despite have several opportunities to attempt empty-netters from their own end, they opted to coolly rag the puck in the neutral zone.

2002 September 11, “Blues frustrated again by Detroit efficiency”, in Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, retrieved 2008-05-12:

(ice hockey) To retain possession of the puck by skillful skating and stickhandling without attempting to score, as a deliberate tactic intended to use up time.


knucklecurve

(baseball) A type of pitch with characteristics of both a curveball and a knuckleball.


ghostball

(baseball) A type of pitch; the knuckleball.


stickhandling

(ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse) Skillful manipulation of the puck or ball with a player's stick, allowing the player to maintain control of the puck or ball.


stickhandle

stickhandle (third-person singular simple present stickhandles, present participle stickhandling, simple past and past participle stickhandled)

stickhandles (present singular third-person)
stickhandling (participle present)
stickhandled (participle past)
stickhandled (past)

Kovalev regained possession of the puck and stickhandled at full speed into neutral-zone open ice.

2008 April 17, Dave Stubbs, “Lots of life left in Bruins”, in The Gazette, Montreal, retrieved 2008-05-13:

(transitive, intransitive, ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse) To maintain individual possession of the puck or ball by controlling it with movements of one's stick, especially to do so in a skillful manner.


court sense

(basketball) A player's knowledge of all that is occurring in the game.


empty netter

(ice hockey) Alternative spelling of empty-netter


empty-net goal

Malik added an empty-net goal with 55 seconds left on a length-of-the-ice shot.

2001 February 19, “Carolina close in on Bruins”, in BBC Sport Online, retrieved 2008-05-14:

(ice hockey) A point scored when a player shoots the puck into the opposing team's net at a time when the opposing team's goalie has been withdrawn from the game for tactical reasons.


backplate

(underwater diving) A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.


top scorer

On our website you can keep tabs of the top scorers in Europe’s major leagues.

England's top scorers in the World Championship games were NN and MM.

(sports, ballgames) A person who scores most or among the best in a specified league, team or game.


superteam

Cleveland Cavaliers
Golden State Warriors
LeBron James
Miami Heat

Any well-respected or highly successful team (in any of several contexts)

(sports, chiefly basketball) A team composed of three or more high-caliber players, especially one assembled by free agency or trades rather than by drafting.


goalscorer

At the other end, goalscorer Krohn-Dehli's 20-yard strike brought a fine stop from Stekelenburg.

2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport:

(soccer) A person who scores a goal, or scores goals


chicken leg

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(bodybuilding slang) The genetically disadvantaged or otherwise underdeveloped shank of a man.

Hey chicken legs, stop skipping leg day!

(in the plural, bodybuilding slang) Someone with underdeveloped leg muscles.


chicken wing

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(wrestling) A particular wrestling move.


double-header

This afternoon we will have a double-header between the Bears and the Wolves, games at 3pm and 7:30pm.

The ′40s and ′50s were in advance of the day of the twilight double-header, and most certainly before the more common twilight or “twinight” double-headers, in which the fans must leave so as to empty their seats for a new crowd which is to see the second game at a separately scheduled time.

2011, William B. Gould, IV, Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil, page 43:

(sports) A pair of games played one after another between the same teams.

(fishing) The catching of a single fish simultaneously by two fishermen when fishing together.


disengagement

en-noun

disengagement (countable and uncountable, plural disengagements)

There was a quick flash, a disengagement, a feint, a lunge that was like a man's, and as her long left arm shot out like lightning, her foil bent nearly double.

1895, Francis Marion Crawford, chapter 23, in Taquisara:

(fencing) A circular movement of the blade that blocks an opponent's parry.


pull the string

en-verb

pull the string (third-person singular simple present pulls the string, present participle pulling the string, simple past and past participle pulled the string)

pulls the string (present singular third-person)
pulling the string (participle present)
pulled the string (participle past)
pulled the string (past)

(baseball) To throw an off-speed pitch, a change up, to cause the hitter to swing early and miss.


breeching

en-noun

breeching (countable and uncountable, plural breechings)

/bɹiːt͡ʃiːŋ/

Beside this, he has to learn to wear a collar, a crupper, and a breeching, and to stand still whilst they are put on; then to have a cart or a chaise fixed behind him, so that he cannot walk or trot without dragging it after him: and he must go fast or slow, just as his driver wishes.

[1877], Anna Sewell, “My Breaking In”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part I, pages 16–17:

(equestrianism) A component of horse harness or tack, enabling the horse to hold back a vehicle.


sanglant

BERSANTER , or BERSAWTER, ar. three boars' heads sanglant, sa.

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

The couchant lion armed and langued, with his paw upon the open book, is indeed, the crest; but what a shield — Tincture upon tincture; azure: a cross sanguine, with a lamb sanglant in the dexter chief!

1843, The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History, and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, &c, page 38:

Crest—A falcon, wings elevate or, belled gu., preying upon a wing, arg., sanglant, ppr.

1853, Bernard Burke, Index to Burke's dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, page 162:

A large shield, in the centre whereof was depicted / A hand lately severed, - the artist, addicted / ('Twas De Rodon bimself) to pre-Raphaelite rules, / Had made the wrist "sanglant" with drops from it "gules."

1855, Francis Edward Smedley, Mirth and metre by F.E. Smedley and E.H. Yates, page 69:


DDP

Diamond Dallas Page
w:Diamond Dallas Page

(professional wrestling) Initialism of Diamond Dallas Page.


downfield

(sports) Toward the defending team's end of the playing field.


upfield

en-adj

upfield (comparative more upfield, superlative most upfield)

more upfield (comparative)
most upfield (superlative)

Henderson, beginning a mini-run in the team with David de Gea on paternity leave, threw out to the left flank and Shaw had only one thought – to rumble upfield.

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

(sports) Away from the defending team's end of the playing field.


upfield

The All Blacks drove upfield, using up the remaining moments, and when Joubert blew for another French infringement, the biggest party in New Zealand's history was under way.

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


tai chi

en-noun

tai chi (usually uncountable, plural tai chis)

From Mandarin 太極／太极 (tàijí), Wade–Giles romanization: tʻai⁴-chi². Doublet of taegeuk.

zh-l

太極／太极 (tàijí)

Participants perform Tai Chi at a square in Jiefang District during a worldwide Tai Chi activity on October 18, 2015, in Jiaozuo, Henan Province.

2016 March 31, Alan Taylor, “More of the Chinese Art of the Crowd”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2016-04-05:

(martial arts) A soft form of martial art developed in China.


FBS

w:NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision

(American football) Initialism of Football Bowl Subdivision.


mortice

One soon learned, however, that it was no easy thing to make wood do exactly as one required it. It looked quite easy in the masterly hands of the experienced pattern-maker, but the mysteries of dowelling and mortice and tenon were not uncovered in a week or two.

1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:

(woodworking) Alternative spelling of mortise


mortice

en-verb

mortice (third-person singular simple present mortices, present participle morticing, simple past and past participle morticed)

mortices (present singular third-person)
morticing (participle present)
morticed (participle past)
morticed (past)


uncapped

there seems nothing very unusual about an uncapped 20-year-old English midfielder being asked to step up in the Champions League last-16 against Real Madrid.

2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian:

The jury is still out on their purchase of French defender Wesley Fofana, who cost £75m from Leicester in 2022 and has struggled with injury. He made his France debut in 2023 but remains, we think, the most expensive player to move clubs while uncapped.

2024 July 24, Guardian sport, “Who are football’s most expensive uncapped players?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(sports) Not having made an appearance in an international sports match.


overhead press

en-noun

overhead press (plural overhead presses)

Coordinate term: bench press

(weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is lifted with the arms, which are straightened vertically over one's head.

pystypunnerrus

the arms weightlifting vertically over the head

called жим пе́ред собо́й m if done before the head and жим из-за головы́ m or жим за го́лову m if behind the neck


PDC

Tensions threatened to boil over before the defending champion Gerwyn Price eventually overcame Kim Huybrechts in a sudden-death decider to reach the last 16 of the PDC World Championship.

2021 December 27, “Gerwyn Price beats Kim Huybrechts in fiery clash to keep title defence alive”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Professional Darts Corporation
w:Professional Darts Corporation

(UK, sports) Initialism of Professional Darts Corporation.


PDC

(underwater diving) Initialism of personal dive computer.


on sight

(climbing) An ascent of a route without falling, on the first attempt, without having been advised on it or having seen it prior.


BSO

(cycling, slang, derogatory) An abbreviation of Bike-Shaped Object, used to refer to cheaply-made, low-quality bicycles.


Death Valley driver

Death Valley driver (plural Death Valley drivers)

(wrestling) A move in which the wrestler throws the opponent off their shoulders and falls in the direction that the opponent's head is facing, driving the opponent's head or back into the mat.


backlift

(cricket) The lifting of the bat in preparation for hitting the ball.


second serve

Rosol spurned the chance to finish off a shallow second serve by spooning into the net, and a wild forehand took the set to 5-4, with the native of Prerov required to hold his serve for victory.

2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian:

(tennis) Another attempt at a service, after a faulty first service.


keep score

en-verb

keep score (third-person singular simple present keeps score, present participle keeping score, simple past and past participle kept score)

keeps score (present singular third-person)
keeping score (participle present)
kept score (participle past)
kept score (past)

(sports, games) To keep track of the score in a game.


hit one out of the ballpark

hit one out of the ballpark (third-person singular simple present hits one out of the ballpark, present participle hitting one out of the ballpark, simple past and past participle hit one out of the ballpark)

hits one out of the ballpark (present singular third-person)
hitting one out of the ballpark (participle present)
hit one out of the ballpark (participle past)
hit one out of the ballpark (past)

(baseball) To hit a fair ball so well that the ball flies over all of the spectators' seats and lands outside the stadium.


vignetting

(photography) An instance of vignette (effect where qualities vanish toward edges).


LTA

Lawn Tennis Association
w:Lawn Tennis Association

(tennis) Initialism of Lawn Tennis Association.


cynegetics

PIE word
 *ḱwṓ
From cynegetic + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum).

affix

(hunting, obsolete) Hunting (especially with dogs).


Nordic skiing

pohjoismaiset hiihtolajit

cross-country skiing, biathlon ski jumping collectively

cross-country skiing
cross-country skiing

(sports) cross-country skiing, especially as competitive sport.

(skiing) nordic skiing, including cross-country skiing, biathlon, ski jumping.


traverse

From Middle English traversen, from Old French traverser, from Latin trans (“across”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of Latin vertere (“to turn”).

(climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.


traverse

en-verb

traverse (third-person singular simple present traverses, present participle traversing, simple past and past participle traversed)

traverses (present singular third-person)
traversing (participle present)
traversed (participle past)
traversed (past)

(climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).

the road traversed the face of the ridge as the right-of-way climbed the mountain

The last run, weary, I traversed the descents in no hurry to reach the lodge.

(engineering, skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.

(intransitive, fencing) To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.


toison

For quotations using this term, see Citations:toison.


decrescent

From decressant, from Anglo-Norman [Term?], present participle of decreistre (“to decrease”).

(heraldry) A crescent oriented with horns turned to sinister (pointing to the viewer's right).


pinfall

en-noun

pinfall (countable and uncountable, plural pinfalls)

Cohen is best known for the confidence he displays on the wrestling mat, . . . stringing one move after another until he hears the referee's hand slap the mat to signal a pinfall.

2005 February 3, Jon Gallo, “Hammond's Cohen an Artist on the Mat”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2008-07-14:

(wrestling, countable) A victorious maneuver in which both of an opponent's shoulders are held against the mat for a prescribed period of time.

Allison, a member of the Bowling Hall of Fame, recently moved into ninth place for career pinfall with more than 103,000.

2007 July 1, Neil Amdur, “Bowling: Why a 900 Series Just Isn’t What It Used to Be”, in New York Times, retrieved 2008-07-14:

(bowling) The number of pins toppled by a bowler or bowling team during a game, tournament, career, or some other measured period.


non partant

From French non partant (“not leaving, not departing”).

106 JOLY Sébastien FDJ FRA Non Partant (Did not show) dailypeloton.com

(cycling) Not starting; not participating.


non partant

And so on Friday evening, the Tour communique listed Bassons as a non partant. Cyclingnews.com

(cycling) A competitor who has qualified for entry into a race, but fails to attend the start.


increscent

Attested since about 1675, from Latin increscens, present participle of increscere.

(heraldry) A crescent oriented with horns turned to dexter (pointing to the viewer's left).


dancy

From French danché (or an older form thereof). Compare dancetté.

a fess dancy


sonkyo

From Japanese 蹲踞 (sonkyo), from Middle Chinese 蹲踞 (MC dzwon kjoH).

(sumo) The calm, straight-backed squat, following the shiko exercises, in mental preparation for the tachiai


swing for the fences

en-verb

swing for the fences (third-person singular simple present swings for the fences, present participle swinging for the fences, simple past and past participle swung for the fences)

swings for the fences (present singular third-person)
swinging for the fences (participle present)
swung for the fences (participle past)
swung for the fences (past)

Don't swing for the fences unless it's an easy ball; be content with running part way.

(US, baseball, softball) To swing at the ball as hard as possible, with the aim of getting a home run.


antidoping

The league recently announced tough new antidoping measures.

That has left the Olympic and antidoping movements unsettled as the Summer Games prepare to open on Friday in Paris and raised new questions about the reach of U.S. law enforcement powers abroad.

2024 July 25, Michael S. Schmidt and Tariq Panja, “How a U.S. Antidoping Law Fueled Global Tensions”, in The New York Times:

(sports) Proscribing or combating doping.

反興奮劑

proscribing or combating doping in sports


agricultural shot

en-noun

agricultural shot (plural agricultural shots)

(cricket) A swing across the line of the ball (resembling a scything motion) played without much technique, often resulting in a chunk of the pitch being dug up by the bat.


Barça

Shortened form of Futbol Club Barcelona, keeping the Catalan spelling rules. Since this football team is a symbol of the city of Barcelona, this word has been associated with the whole city, although it's wrong to use Barça to refer to the city itself; instead, one would use Barna.

(soccer) Clipping of Futbol Club Barcelona.


breaststroker

(swimming) A person swimming using the breaststroke.


scrutineer

Those people coined the term “open source,” to stress the instrumental benefits of allowing others to scrutinize code: these scrutineers could root out defects and prevent the nefarious subversion of code to spy on or steal data from its users (there’s a saying for this, too: “with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”).

2020 September 7, Cory Doctorow, “IP”, in Locus Magazine:

(now chiefly motor racing) A person who scrutinises; a person responsible for scrutineering.


trudgen

Named for John Trudgen (1852-1902), an English swimmer who popularised the stroke.

(swimming) A swimming stroke in which the left and right hands are alternately raised out of the water, brought forward and drawn back through the water. A scissor kick is performed on every second stroke.


trudgen

en-verb

trudgen (third-person singular simple present trudgens, present participle trudgening, simple past and past participle trudgened)

trudgens (present singular third-person)
trudgening (participle present)
trudgened (participle past)
trudgened (past)


deathlock

(sports) A certain wrestling move that traps the opponent's leg.


count out

count out (third-person singular simple present counts out, present participle counting out, simple past and past participle counted out)

counts out (present singular third-person)
counting out (participle present)
counted out (participle past)
counted out (past)

The champ was knocked unconscious and counted out in the third round.

en:determine that (a competitor) has lost a match

(transitive, boxing, wrestling, professional wrestling) To determine that a competitor has lost a match, by a referee's enumeration aloud of the increments of time for which the competitor has been incapacitated.


full-court press

en-noun

full-court press (plural full-court presses)

(basketball) A coordinated maneuver, involving all team members, to block or interfere with the opposing team's attempt to advance the ball down the playing court, so as to force a turnover or backcourt violation.


lay up

en-verb

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

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

He takes the pass, he drives, he lays it up and in.

(transitive, basketball) To make a layup with (a basketball)

Rather than try to reach the green, he chose to lay up.

(intransitive, golf) To deliberately leave the ball further than necessary from the hole, so as to secure an easier succeeding shot.


scuba set

buoyancy control device
buoyancy control device

(underwater diving) The set of equipment required by a scuba diver to be at ease when submerged for extended periods of time. Modern equipment sets include tanks containing mixes of nitrogen in varied ratios with oxygen, a buoyancy control device, a first- and second-stage regulator (to allow the regulated flow of gas from the tank into the user's respiratory system), a wetsuit and accessories for heat insulation, fins for underwater propulsion, a mask (to see underwater), and a snorkel (for moving around the surface of the water without using up breathing gas). Many divers also choose to dive with a diving knife (in case of a tangle with a net, etc.), and night divers may also dive with a waterproof flashlight.


five-second rule

en-noun

five-second rule (plural five-second rules)

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Any rule that allows or prohibits certain behavior for five seconds after some event, especially:

(basketball) A rule that a closely-guarded player cannot hold the ball for more than five seconds without dribbling, passing, rolling, or shooting the ball.

(basketball) A rule that a player who throws in the ball from out of bounds must get rid of it in less than five seconds.


quinternion

From quint- + -ernion, a suffix built from the ending of quaternion.

(bookbinding) Five gathered sheets of paper folded in two for binding together.

quinterno

five gathered sheets of paper folded in two


French press

→ Persian: فرنچ پرس (ferenč peres)

(bodybuilding) A triceps exercise involving lying face up and lifting a barbell; lying triceps extensions.


discus thrower

(athletics) An athlete who takes part in the discus throw.


splash-and-dash

(swimming) A fifty-metre freestyle swimming event.

(motor racing) A quick stop for fuel near the end of a race, so as to be able to cross the finish line without running out of fuel.


quadruple scull

quadruple scull (plural quadruple sculls)

(rowing, especially in plural) A race in which such craft participate


forward roll

(gymnastics) A movement in which one's body is rolled forward, by putting the head on the ground and swinging the legs over the head.


iron cross

(gymnastics) A position on the rings where the gymnast holds the rings straight out on either side of the body.

(sports, moguls freestyle skiing) an acrobatic maneuver where the skier remains upright, but the lower leg bends back at the knee 90 degrees, and the ankles twist 45 degrees, so that the back of the skis form a right-angle cross


rhythmic gymnastics

(gymnastics) A discipline of gymnastics where the gymnast manipulates one of five apparatuses (ribbon, ball, rope, clubs, hoop) in a rhythmic manner.


side wall

Because each of the walls in question is located on a side of the court.

(squash, racquetball) Either of the two parallel walls in a court, perpendicular to the front wall; either of the walls on the side of the court.


back wall

Because it is a wall and is located at the back of the court.

(squash, racquetball) The wall at the back of a racquetball or squash court, directly opposite the front wall.


front wall

Because it is a wall and is located at the front of the court.

(squash, racquetball) The main and largest wall in court, located at the front of the world; the wall which the ball must hit in a rally.


TBF

Turkish Basketball Federation
w:Turkish Basketball Federation

(basketball) Initialism of Turkish Basketball Federation.


line break

Toby Flood replaced Wilkinson at the break and scrum-half Ben Youngs scored almost directly from the restart, spotting a gap down the short side and linking well with Tuilagi down the right flank, and nine minutes later full-back Ben Foden extended England's lead following a bullocking line-break by Tuilagi.

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

(rugby) a break made through the opposition's defensive line


batsmanship

Although our team lost, we were complimented by everyone on our batsmanship.

(cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.


shawty

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These are the things that separate a date from a fiancee, a shawty from a wife, a one-night stand from a lifetime commitment.

Look, I had to pay the shawties that helped me, and after I paid them, yo' cut is thirty-two grand.

2006, Nikki Turner, Chunichi, Roy Glenn, Girls from Da Hood:

Shawty wanna stay in my bachelor pad / But I'm a bachelor and I'm happy

2008, Gucci Mane (lyrics and music), “Bachelor Pad”, in The Movie:

2009, Marie Antionette, A Girl Named Job
My first affair was with my shawty, Baby Boy. I called him that because he was the oldest of two siblings, but his Mama treated him like her baby boy!

(chiefly African-American Vernacular, hip-hop) Alternative form of shorty (“young woman, girlfriend”)


cable release

(photography) A sheathed wire plunger used to activate the shutter of a camera without accidentally moving it.


somatics

(dance) Movement practices which emphasize the dancer's sensations, or which incorporate somatic therapies.


pankration

From Ancient Greek παγκράτιον (pankrátion, “all powers”).

der

(martial arts) An Ancient Greek martial art combining aspects of boxing and wrestling, introduced in the Greek Olympic games in 648 BC.


bat away

en-verb

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

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

(US, baseball, of a batter) To use one's own judgment to aggressively swing at pitches, rather than following a coaches instructions.

(US, circus slang) To use any means to take the money of participants in a circus gaming attraction.


MTB

en-noun

MTB (countable and uncountable, plural MTBs)

(cycling) Initialism of mountain biking.


XP

(motor racing) Abbreviation of extreme prix; xPrix (from being an extreme grand prix).


draisine

Named after Baron Karl Drais (1785–1851), who invented a predecessor to the bicycle.

named-after

British users rechristened the baron's invention the hobby horse then the dandy horse, because draisines became very fashionable with Regency gentlemen.

2015, Chris Boardman, The Biography of the Modern Bike: The Ultimate History of Bike Design, Hachette, →ISBN, page 10:

(historical, cycling) Synonym of draisienne


agg

(sports) Clipping of aggregate. (the total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores)


gold piece

(fantasy roleplaying games) A common unit of currency in many fantasy role-playing games.


football tennis

(sports) A sport played with a ball over a net on a tennis-like court, with the ball similar to the football one, and the net to the tennis one.


off one's game

One fellow I knew once was off his game the whole first half because some idiot was flying a kite over the field advertising some one's pills.

c. 1910, Ralph Henry Barbour, “The Dub”, in The New Boy at Hilltop and Other Stories:

Then the latter, as every golfer does at times, suddenly went right off his game.

1922, P. G. Wodehouse, “A Woman is only a Woman”, in The Clicking of Cuthbert:

(sports, of a competitor) Playing or competing below one's usual level of performance.


crit

en-noun

crit (countable and uncountable, plural crits)

From criticism, critique, critical, criterium, and critical hit, by shortening.


bowl-out

(cricket) A series of deliveries at an unguarded wicket at the end of a non-first-class cricket match, used to decide the winner of a drawn match.


esses

(motor racing, usually in the plural) A sequence of winding turns.


gelatinize

en-verb

gelatinize (third-person singular simple present gelatinizes, present participle gelatinizing, simple past and past participle gelatinized)

gelatinizes (present singular third-person)
gelatinizing (participle present)
gelatinized (participle past)
gelatinized (past)

(transitive, photography) To coat or treat with gelatin.


change up

change up (third-person singular simple present changes up, present participle changing up, simple past and past participle changed up)

changes up (present singular third-person)
changing up (participle present)
changed up (participle past)
changed up (past)

He changed up on Wilson after three fastballs and struck him out.

(intransitive, baseball) To throw a pitch at a much slower than expected speed.


country dance

(dance) Any set step routine group dance such as ceilidh dance, highland dance, line dance, barn dance or square dance.


ceilidh dance

(dance) A type of Scottish dance involving set-step routines, traditionally engaged in at a ceilidh.


ceilidh dance

ceilidh dance (third-person singular simple present ceilidh dances, present participle ceilidh dancing, simple past and past participle ceilidh danced)

ceilidh dances (present singular third-person)
ceilidh dancing (participle present)
ceilidh danced (participle past)
ceilidh danced (past)

(intransitive, dance) To take part in a ceilidh dance (noun sense).


posterize

posterize (third-person singular simple present posterizes, present participle posterizing, simple past and past participle posterized)

posterizes (present singular third-person)
posterizing (participle present)
posterized (participle past)
posterized (past)

(basketball, slang) To score a slam dunk by leaping over another player.


roll out

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

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

(intransitive, bowling, of a ball) To use up too much energy when first bowled and to therefore not finish strongly.


rollout

(American football) A play in which a quarterback moves toward the sideline before attempting to pass.


dunk shot

(basketball) A dunk, a shot where the ball is propelled directly downward through the hoop.


frontflip

(gymnastics) A floor movement, consisting of rotating one's body in the air 360 degrees in the forward direction.


glacading

(sports) The sport of sliding down a mountain on snow and/or ice. It is a technique used by climbers to get off a mountain fast when adverse weather conditions move in. For climbers they use an ice ax to stop their free fall at the bottom.


dig out

dig out (third-person singular simple present digs out, present participle digging out, simple past and past participle dug out)

digs out (present singular third-person)
digging out (participle present)
dug out (participle past)
dug out (past)

(transitive, cricket) To block a yorker with the bottom of the bat, at the last second.


saliant

He beareth, Or, a Lion Saliant, Gules, by the name of Felbridge. The Proper forme of a Lion Saliant, is Lion Saliant when his right forefoot answereth to the Dexter corner of the Escocheon, and his hindmost foot the sinister base[…]

1632, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldrie, page 195:

Or two Wolves counter saliant Sable.

1842, Thomas Chatterton, Poetical Works: With Notices of His Life, History of the Rowley Controversy, a Selection of His Letters, and Notes, Critical and Explanatory, page 706:

Williams : argent , two foxes saliant counter-saliant in saltire, gules, the dexter surmounting the sinister (fig. 100). Sir Simon de Felbrigge, K.G .: or, a lion saliant gules (fig. 89). Fitz Payne: gules, three lions[…]

1898, The Encyclopaedia Britannica ...: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature ... in Thirty Volumes with New American Supplement, page 699:

(heraldry, dated) Alternative form of salient


ultrasoft

(motor racing) Softer than supersoft, and harder than hypersoft.


right cross

(boxing) A cross (hook thrown over the opponent's punch) made with the right hand


punch in

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

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


pink spot

(snooker) The spot on a snooker table where the pink ball is normally placed.


blue spot

(snooker) The spot on a snooker table where the blue ball is normally placed.


yellow spot

(snooker) The spot on a snooker table where the yellow ball is normally placed.


green spot

(snooker) The spot on a snooker table where the green ball is normally placed.


brown spot

en-noun

brown spot (countable and uncountable, plural brown spots)

(snooker, countable) The spot on a snooker table where the brown ball is normally placed.


object ball

(snooker, billiards) The ball which the cue ball is intended to hit.


unforced error

This meant Nadal needed to hold serve to force his opponent to earn the win. An unforced error took Rosol to 30-15 and two points away from glory, but a net cord in Nadal's favour and the men were level in the game.

(sports, chiefly tennis) A basic error committed in a tactical game, where errors are usually forced by the game strategy.


openside

Coordinate term: blindside

(rugby) The space on the side of the pitch with the larger distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline.


inside back

(rugby) a back whose primary job is to create space for the outside backs outside him, i.e. the scrum-half, the fly-half and the inside centre.


first receiver

(rugby) The first player to receive the ball from a scrum-half. This is often the fly-half, but may be a different player if the fly-half is unavailable, or a forward who will drive.


three-quarter back

three-quarter back (plural three-quarter backs)

(rugby) Any of a group of players positioned between the half-backs and the full-backs; consists of the left wing, the inside centre, the outside centre and the right wing


half-back

But Wales somehow snaffled possession for fly-half Jones to send half-back partner Mike Phillips haring away with Stoddart in support.

2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC:


scrummager

Their tighthead is a great scrummager, but is not very good in the loose.

(rugby) One who scrummages; usually used in reference to the qualities of front row forwards.


outside back

(rugby) a back whose primary job it is to exploit space created by the inside backs, i.e. the outside centre, both wingers, and the full back


openside flanker

openside flanker (plural openside flankers)

(rugby) a forward position in rugby union, usually number 7.


flamant

Sr Andrew Flamocke. [...] Crest -- A tree ragulée Vert flamant Gules.

1885, Walter Charles Metcalfe, A Book of Knights … 1566 [to] 1698, page 81:

75th Air Depot Wing 750 AIR / On a shield Or, a stylized aircraft Azure, throughout, in pale, thereon a sword Argent, flamant Gules, fimbriated Or,[…]

2001, Judy G. Endicott, The USAF in Korea: Campaigns, Units, and Stations, 1950-1953, Department of the Air Force, page 105:

(heraldry) Flaming (typically gules unless another color is specified).


penalty goal

(ice hockey, soccer, rugby) A goal scored from a penalty.


digicam

Originally a trade name, shortening of digital camera, equivalent to digi- + cam.


tight five

(rugby) The five forwards who form the front row and the second row in the scrum.


humet

Uncertain. The OED speculates that it might derive from Old French heaumet (whence helmet), a diminutive of heaume (“helm”) supposedly applied to the bar of it; however, compare the early (1600s) use of humet for a slab of stone or tombstone.

[...] who take their Name from Hameyde, one of the two and twenty Baronies of that Province; thus D'Or a trois Hameydes de Geules, that is, Or, three Humets Gules, or Bars couped;

1725, James Coats, A New Dictionary of Heraldry, page 34:

Sa., on a humet arg., a martlet arg. (or.) Creft : A martlet as in the shield. Confirmed (with 1 quartering) to Hugh Bostock, of Moreton Say, who m. Margaret, daug. of Thomas Lee, of Langley. Harl MS. Boteler.

1869, Shropshire Arms and Lineages, page 10:

The Humet is a term sometimes, but seldom, used for a fesse, or bar humetty, i.e. couped at each of the extremities. Or, three humets sable , charged with as many annulets argent—AMBROSE, Lancashire.

1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 336:

(heraldry, rare) A fesse or bar cut off short at each end.


humet

[...] as Morgan in his Blazon of the Arms of Brabant, argent on a fesse humet gules, three leopards' heads or[…]

1804, Alexander Nisbet, A system of heraldry, speculative and practical: with the true art of Blazon ... Illustrated with suitable examples of armorial figures, and achievements of the most considerable surnames and families in Scotland ..., page 47:

erm. three bars humets or.

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

Sa, three bars humet ar.

1847, John Burke, Encyclopaedia of Heraldry or general Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland, comprising a registry of all armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time, including the late grants by the college of arms: By John and John Bernard Burke:


emerger

(fishing) The form of an aquatic insect that is hatching or emerging; used in fly fishing.


playmaking

(sports) The initiation of offensive play with the intent of scoring a goal (or the equivalent)


frameset

(cycling) A bicycle's frame plus the front fork.


cooldown

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(sports) The rest period between sets or workout sessions, when cooling of body temperature may occur.


longline

(fishing) gear consisting of a long and thick mainline, with baited hooks attached at intervals by means of branch lines called snoods (or gangions)

palangre

very long fishing line with multiple hooks


gain line

(rugby) an imaginary line running across the pitch perpendicular to the touchline and passing through the breakdown or set piece. The subsequent phase is said to have passed "over the gain line" if the gain line at the subsequent breakdown is in front of the last, or "behind the gain line" if it is behind.

(American football) Alternative form of line to gain


hillclimbing

(sports) A form of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock on an uphill course.


ribeye

Watson had a 3-run homer and a 2-run double for a total of five ribeyes on the night.


drift net

(fishing) A very long fishing net, supported by floats, that drifts with the current behind a fishing boat


ORL

(sports) Abbreviation of Orlando. (Orlando, Florida, USA)


shooting gallery

shooting gallery (plural shooting galleries)

(figuratively, sports) Any game or match with lots of shooting (e.g. at a goal)


piledriver

(professional wrestling) A move in which the wrestler applies a front waist lock, then drives the opponent's head into the mat by falling to his knees or backside.

United did not dwell on the decision and Nani had a left-foot piledriver fended wide by Friedel, who is now the oldest player in Villa's history at 39 years and 259 days.

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


death zone

Coined by Swiss physician and alpinist Edouard Wyss-Dunant in 1953 as lethal zone.

coinage

That makes life even harder in the freezing temperatures of the death zone. High in the mountains the cold affects you quickly. You get goose bumps as your skin tries to trap warm air in the fine hairs that cover your body.

2009 03, Ross Piper, Death Zone: Can Humans Survive at 26,000 Feet?, Capstone, →ISBN, page 10:

(climbing) A area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life.


pull the trigger

en-verb

pull the trigger (third-person singular simple present pulls the trigger, present participle pulling the trigger, simple past and past participle pulled the trigger)

pulls the trigger (present singular third-person)
pulling the trigger (participle present)
pulled the trigger (participle past)
pulled the trigger (past)

The Baggies almost hit back instantly when Graham Dorrans broke from midfield and pulled the trigger from 15 yards but Paul Robinson did superbly to tip the Scot's drive around the post.

2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC:

(soccer, idiomatic, intransitive) To shoot, kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.

(tennis, informal) To hit a very powerful shot.


polyfoto

Originally Polyfoto (“a commercial venture”), from poly- and photo.

(obsolete, British, photography) One of a series of 48 photographs (similar to photo booth photos) taken using a Polyfoto camera, which used a single glass plate negative, the operator turning a handle on the side to take each exposure and also move the plate.


polyfoto

polyfoto (third-person singular simple present polyfotos, present participle polyfotoing, simple past and past participle polyfotoed)

polyfotos (present singular third-person)
polyfotoing (participle present)
polyfotoed (participle past)
polyfotoed (past)

(obsolete, British, photography) To take such a series of photographs.


ledger line

[W]hen fishing for Eels with a ledger line as well as a floated line, don't be in too much haste to strike when you see a bite, for Eels generally gorge the bait, and consequently hook themselves, if you give them time, […] I always use two hooks on my ledger, placing the top one about two feet above the bottom, and to prevent it from moving from its proper place, fix a shot above it and below it, […]

1823, T[homas] F[rederick] Salter, “Directions How to Angle for and Take the Anguilla, or Eel”, in The Angler’s Guide, Being a New, Plain and Complete Practical Treatise on the Art of Angling for Sea, River, and Pond Fish; […], 5th corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed by R. Carpenter and Son, […], and sold for the author; by T[homas] Tegg, […], →OCLC, 1st part (Bottom Fishing), page 121:

(fishing) A fishing line used with ledger bait for bottom fishing; a ligger.


mountant

The favourite professional mountant was, and to some extent still is, starch paste.

1911, Bernard Edward Jones, Encyclopedia of Photography, reprint edition, published 1964, →ISBN, page 365:

(photography, dated) The adhesive used to affix a photograph to a mount


ground game

en-noun

ground game (countable and uncountable, plural ground games)

He didn't show a lot of ground game in that fight, but his advantage was on the feet, so that's understandable.

2007 September 8, Scott Sherman, Gerald Harris, “Scott's UFC 75 picks”, in Salt Lake Tribune, archived from the original on 2008-04-05:

(martial arts) Hand-to-hand combat in which both fighters are on the ground, or skill in such combat

Most golf courses built in the 1980s went away from the old-fashioned ground game and forced players to hit the ball high.

1999, Harvey Penick, Bud Shrake, The Game for a Lifetime, →ISBN, page 34:

(golf) Putting; hitting the ball along the ground

Notre Dame, with its option-type quarterback, Tony Rice, is committed to the ground game.

1988 November 26, Mal Florence, “They Take Case to Polls Today USC-Notre Dame Game Could Settle Score for No. 1”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 2013-06-30, page Sports 3:

(American football, countable) Running with the ball, rather than passing


write up

en-verb

write up (third-person singular simple present writes up, present participle writing up, simple past wrote up, past participle written up)

writes up (present singular third-person)
writing up (participle present)
wrote up (past)
written up (participle past)

(philately) To annotate a stamp album page with details about the stamp, such as die used or colour variety.


climbing wall

(climbing) An artificial wall used for the sport of climbing


tice

Possibly from entice, as below, suggesting the bowler's purpose.

Bowlers should practise both toss and tice.

1862, James Picroft, The Cricket-Field, Or The History and the Science of the Game of Cricket, page 120:

The tice is almost a full pitch. If you have a long reach, go in and play forward; if not, however, keep your bat down, and block it.

1863 March 7, “The Complete Guide to the Cricket Field: Chapter III: The Batsman”, in The Boy's Miscellany: An Illustrated Journal of Useful and Entertaining Literature for Youth, volume 1, page 155:

1870 July, The Wykehamist, Number 33, page 1,
Raynor, though somewhat wild, obtained an extraordinary number of wickets for very few runs, his fast "tices" quite puzzling the Eton bats.

1911, Henry Charles Howard Suffolk and Berkshire (Earl of), Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo, The Encyclopaedia of Sport & Games, Volume 1, page 452,
A "yorker" (or "tice") pitches on, or within six inches of, the popping crease; […] .

(cricket, dated) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket; a yorker.

yorker

ball bowled to strike the pitch near the batsman's feet


white flag

(motor racing) A flag with a white color, signifying the final lap of a race (ie. the bell lap).


oversplit

(gymnastics, acrobatics) Any split in which the angle formed by the legs measures greater than 180 degrees. Can be done to the front with either or both legs elevated, or in a straddle split with one or both legs elevated, or with a standing leg lift

ylispagaatti

split in which the angle formed by the legs exceeds 180 degrees


oversplit

oversplit (third-person singular simple present oversplits, present participle oversplitting, simple past and past participle oversplit)

oversplits (present singular third-person)
oversplitting (participle present)
oversplit (participle past)
oversplit (past)