put up the shutters

put up the shutters (third-person singular simple present puts up the shutters, present participle putting up the shutters, simple past and past participle put up the shutters)

puts up the shutters (present singular third-person)
putting up the shutters (participle present)
put up the shutters (participle past)
put up the shutters (past)

(cricket) To bat defensively in the last innings of a match in order to force a draw when winning is not possible.


popping crease

(cricket) Either of two white lines, each drawn on the pitch in front of a wicket, between which the batsmen run, and from where the bowler may legally bowl.


pinch hitter

(baseball) A substitute batter; one who pinch-hits.

(cricket) An aggressive batsman brought on to score runs quickly, even at the risk of losing his wicket.


protected area

(cricket) the central, rectangular area of the pitch onto which the bowlers may not run during their follow through


infield hit

Jones got an infield hit when the ball tipped off of the outstretched glove of the diving shortstop.

(baseball) When a batter reaches base with a ground ball that does not leave the infield or shallow outfield.


first baseman

First basemen are usually left-handed.

(baseball) The infield defensive player that stands near first base.


third baseman

The third baseman charged in to field the bunt.

(baseball) The infield defensive player that stands near third base.

kolmosvahti

baseball: defensive player near third base


second baseman

The second baseman started the 4-6-3 double play.

(baseball) The infield defensive player that stands between the first baseman and the shortstop, normally on the right field side of second base.


at-bat

This is his third at-bat of the night.

He only had 220 at-bats this season because of injury.

(baseball) official at-bats. Batting opportunities minus walks, hit by pitches, and sacrifices


ground ball

(baseball) A batted ball that bounces one or more times on the infield; a grounder.

(lacrosse) A loose ball that is on the ground during play.


grounder

From Middle English grounder, grownder, equivalent to ground + -er.


pitch out

The pitch out enabled the catcher to throw out the runner.

(baseball) A pitch which was intentionally thrown outside to the catcher who stands up with the pitch for the purpose of enabling the catcher to throw out a runner.


pitch out

en-verb

pitch out (third-person singular simple present pitches out, present participle pitching out, simple past and past participle pitched out)

pitches out (present singular third-person)
pitching out (participle present)
pitched out (participle past)
pitched out (past)

Jones pitched out twice to no avail.

(baseball, intransitive) To intentionally throw the ball outside to the catcher who stands up with the pitch for the purpose of enabling the catcher to throw out a runner


fly ball

(baseball, softball) A batted ball that has been hit into the air above the outfield; a fly.


pull-down

en-noun

pull-down (countable and uncountable, plural pull-downs)

Another classic trick with rings is the 'pull-down'. This can only be done with rings that fit easily over your head.

1994, Haggis McLeod, KNOW THE GAME - JUGGLING, →ISBN:

2004, Luke Holman, Hardest, most tech trick on the net, May 12 2004 via Google Groups
For example, the 11 ring pulldown didn't stick in my head because I don't really juggle rings, and I have no conception of how hard it is.

(juggling) A trick done with rings where each ring is pulled down over the head instead of being caught and held in the hand.

(exercise) An exercise mostly performed by pulling cables, a bar, or handles from a machine situated diagonally to the front top of the sportsman and targetting the rear muscles.


bonk

en-verb

bonk (third-person singular simple present bonks, present participle bonking, simple past and past participle bonked)

bonks (present singular third-person)
bonking (participle present)
bonked (participle past)
bonked (past)

Of imitative origin. Compare English bang, bounce, bump.

onomatopoeic

imitative

(skateboarding, snowboarding) To hit something with the front of the board, especially in midair.

I had eaten five of my six PowerBars. I was exhausted and famished. In cycling they describe what was happening to me as bonking: my body was out of fuel and had no more energy.

2004, Gary Erickson, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Raising the Bar, Jossey-Bass, →ISBN, page 29:

(informal, sports) To experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion.


front door

His front door slider is hard to handle.

(baseball) The path of a pitch which starts inside and then slides over the plate.


testimonial

From French testimonial, from Late Latin testimonialis (“of or pertaining to testimony”), from Latin testimonium (“testimony”). See testimony.

der

(soccer) A match played in tribute to a particular player (who sometimes receives a proportion of the gate money).

проща́лен мач

football: match played in tribute to a player


stanza

From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin stāns, stantis, from stō, stāre, from Proto-Italic *staēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti, stative verb from *steh₂- (whence English stand). Doublet of stance.

The game's prime moment wasn't the decisive and popular eighth-inning, two-run homer by Mark Bellhorn, which ticked off the friendly Fenway right-field foul pole, but a sensational play by Boston's Manny Ramirez in the top of that same stanza.

2004 November 22, Roger Angell, “Long Voyage Home”, in The New Yorker, volume 80, number 36, page 50:

(sports) A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided.


tester

From Middle English tester, equivalent to test + -er.

(cycling) A cyclist who focuses on success in time trials.


zip code

United States Postal Service
ZIP Code
Zone Improvement Plan

From ZIP Code, a trademark of the United States Postal Service, from ZIP (“Zone Improvement Plan”), introduced 1963.

Wallace and Brewer are almost certain to finish 1-2 in some order – no one else is even in the same zip code.

(sports, by extension) A grouping of athletes or teams with similar skill level.


shortstop

The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.

(baseball) The infield defensive player that stands between the second baseman and the third baseman.

interbase

baseball: defensive player between second and third baseman


two-minute warning

en-noun

two-minute warning (plural two-minute warnings)

(American football) In the NFL, a timeout and warning given to the coaches with two minutes to go before the end of each half.


terrace

Borrowed from French terrasse, from Old Occitan terrassa, from terra (“land”). Doublet of terrasse.

VAN GENNEP uses, Or, on a terrace vert a tulip gules, slipped proper and crowned of the first; LOKE in Zealand has : Argent , on a terrace vert a tulip or, slipped and leaved proper.

1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 337:

The whole upon a terrace gules. CREST : A coronet of nobility of five pearls. MOTTO : Omnia Pro Libertate.

267); "Argent, on a terrace vert, a cannon mounted or, supporting a Bird of Paradise proper" [Rjevski and Yeropkin];

2022 September 16, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, DigiCat:

(heraldry) A champagne, (an ordinary occupying) the base of the shield.


defensive tackle

defensive tackle (plural defensive tackles)

(American football) Any of a few defensive positions in the middle of the defensive line.


offensive tackle

offensive tackle (plural offensive tackles)

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

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

(American football) A lineman for the team in possession of the ball located outside one of the guard positions.

bloquejador

lineman outside guard position in the offensive team


ring field

(cricket) An attacking ring of infielders, square and in front of the wicket - point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket, square leg.


retire hurt

en-verb

retire hurt (third-person singular simple present retires hurt, present participle retiring hurt, simple past and past participle retired hurt)

retires hurt (present singular third-person)
retiring hurt (participle present)
retired hurt (participle past)
retired hurt (past)

(intransitive, cricket) To stop batting because of having sustained an injury.


return crease

(cricket) One of the white lines, perpendicular to the popping crease, within which the bowler's back foot must land.


run chase

(cricket) the situation in which the side batting last need to score a certain number of runs to win; the effort made by such a side to win


no contest

Calque of Latin nolō contendere (“I don't want to contest”).

cal

(boxing, historical) The result of a boxing bout, promoted as an exhibition when the sport of boxing was illegal, when a knockout did not occur.

(boxing) A bout that the referee cancels early, either due to a serious injury early in the fight or due to a lack of action


run rate

(cricket) The number of runs scored by a side divided by the number of overs taken to score them.


field goal

He kicked a 33 yard field goal just before the half.

Sure, Homer and Marge being caught naked in front of the town is funny, but why not make it total humiliation? Why not have Homer dragged ass-first over a church’s glass ceiling and force the pastor to give praise to God’s floors? Why not have Homer’s rear end block a game-winning field goal?

2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club:

(American football, Canadian football) A kick of the ball through the uprights and over the crossbar (not after a touchdown). It scores 3 points.

He got six field goals in the first half, two from three-point land.

(basketball) A shot that is scored while the ball is in play (i.e. not a free throw).

(rugby) A goal scored where a ball that is in play but on the ground is kicked through the uprights and over the crossbar.

field-goal

Basketball and North American rules football


late innings

He is at his best in the late innings.

(baseball) The seventh, eighth, and ninth innings of a game.


pinch hit

Jones drove in a run with a pinch hit for Smith in the sixth.

(baseball) A hit made by a pinch hitter.


halfback

From half + back, in reference to position on the field of play; compare fullback.
In the sense of someone who moves to Florida and then to a more temperate climate, from moving "half way back"

(field sports) A player who occupies one of these positions.

(American football) An offensive back whose primary jobs are to carry the ball on running plays and to serve as a receiver or blocker on passing plays.

(Canadian football) A defensive back whose primary jobs are to cover the slotback on passing plays and prevent running plays from going to the outside.

(rugby) The player who feeds the ball into the scrum, and receives the ball as it emerges from the back of the scrum.


ride the pine

en-verb

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

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

Jones rode the pine much of the season.

(idiomatic, sports) To sit on the bench, to not be used in a game.


oh for

Jones has gone oh for on his scoring opportunities this season.

(sports) A game or time period in which a player did not manage to sustain a particular attainment.

Yesterday's oh for made him overly aggressive today at the plate.

(baseball) An instance in which a player did not get a hit in a game.


split end

Jones played split end.

offensive line of scrimmage
offensive line of scrimmage

(American football) The position which lines up wide and on the offensive line of scrimmage, whose primary job is to serve as a wide receiver.

The split end ran deep.

(American football) A player playing the position of split end.


reverse sweep

(cricket) A batsman's shot made by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc from leg to off, normally whilst kneeling.

(sports) The act of winning a match after losing every set up to the maximum number where, should you lose one more set, you would instead lose the match.


reverse sweep

reverse sweep (third-person singular simple present reverse sweeps, present participle reverse sweeping, simple past and past participle reverse swept)

reverse sweeps (present singular third-person)
reverse sweeping (participle present)
reverse swept (participle past)
reverse swept (past)


reverse swing

(cricket) Sideways movement of the old ball through the air in the opposite direction to normal swing.


fly out

fly out (third-person singular simple present flies out, present participle flying out, simple past flew out or (baseball) flied out, past participle flown out or (baseball) flied out)

flies out (present singular third-person)
flying out (participle present)
flew out (past)
flied out (past)
flown out (participle past)
flied out (participle past)

Jones flied out to right field.

(intransitive, baseball) To become out by hitting a fly ball which is caught.


fly out

A fly out was recorded on the scorecard.


pine tar

en-noun

pine tar (usually uncountable, plural pine tars)

(baseball) This or a similar material used by batters to improve their grip.


partnership

partnership (countable and uncountable, plural partnerships)

/ˈpɑːtnəʃɪp/

/ˈpɑɹtnɚʃɪp/

(cricket) The period when two specific batsmen are batting, from the fall of one wicket until the fall of the next; the number of runs scored during this period,


shortie

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

They got a shortie at the start of the third.

(ice hockey, informal) A short-handed goal.


tight end

National Football League
New England Patriots
Rob Gronkowski
Tampa Bay Buccaneers

From tight (“of a space, arrangement, etc.: narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it”) + end (“position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line; player playing this position”), from the fact that the player takes up a position close to the tackle.

近端鋒

(American football, Canadian football) position at the end of the offensive line

Jones played tight end.

The position at the end of the offensive line whose primary jobs are to block and serve as a short receiver.

The tight end caught the pass.

He has also written about some on the Right’s aversion to the N.F.L., particularly as some concoct convoluted conspiracy theories involving singer Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, the Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, while others denounce professional sports as a whole.

2024 February 11, Jane Coaston, “What MAGA Influencers Are Missing About Football”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A player (called an end) playing the position of tight end (sense 1.1).

ala tancat

(American football, Canadian football) player playing the position of tight end

The position at the end of the offensive line whose primary jobs were to block and serve as a short receiver; this position is no longer used.

A player (called an end) playing the position of tight end (sense 2.1).


punch out

en-verb

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

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

The ump punched out the batter with relish to close out the game.

(transitive, baseball) To rule (by an umpire) that a pitch is a called third strike, often done emphatically.

Jones punched out the batter to start in the sixth.

(transitive, baseball, of a pitcher) To throw a called third strike; to strike (someone) out.


punch out

(baseball) Nonstandard spelling of punchout.


run up

run up (third-person singular simple present runs up, present participle running up, simple past ran up, past participle run up)

runs up (present singular third-person)
running up (participle present)
ran up (past)
run up (participle past)

He runs up... and bowls. Smashed away for four runs!

(cricket) Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.


ground out

ground out (third-person singular simple present grounds out, present participle grounding out, simple past and past participle grounded out)

grounds out (present singular third-person)
grounding out (participle present)
grounded out (participle past)
grounded out (past)

Jones grounded out to lead off the third.

(baseball) To become out by hitting a ground ball which is fielded and leads to a force or tag of a runner.


ground out

A ground out was recorded on the scorecard.

(baseball) An instance of grounding out.


pop-up

(baseball) A pop-up ball: a ball that has been hit to a considerable height above the infield or the shallow outfield; a pop fly.


planer

(woodworking) A tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed.


sprawl

sprawl (third-person singular simple present sprawls, present participle sprawling, simple past and past participle sprawled)

sprawls (present singular third-person)
sprawling (participle present)
sprawled (participle past)
sprawled (past)

From Middle English spraulen, from Old English spreawlian, ultimately through a Proto-Germanic form cognate with *spreutaną (“to sprout”) from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”). Compare North Frisian spraweli.

(wrestling, martial arts) To scoot the legs backwards, so as to land on the upper back of an opponent attempting a takedown.


sprawl

en-noun

sprawl (countable and uncountable, plural sprawls)

(wrestling, martial arts) A defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, where one scoots the legs backwards so as to land on the upper back of the opponent.


back door

Sometimes the ball will curve around and enter from the back-door.

2010, Bob Glanville, Golf: The Game of Lessening Failures, page 14:

(golf, informal) The rear side of the hole, furthest from the golfer.


back door

He has a nasty back door slider.

(US, baseball) The path of a pitch which starts outside and then slides over the plate.


back door

en-verb

back door (third-person singular simple present back doors, present participle back dooring, simple past and past participle back doored)

back doors (present singular third-person)
back dooring (participle present)
back doored (participle past)
back doored (past)

If you survive the heavy take-off at 'The Chair' (which is very close to the rocks) you will find you're in 'The Suck-up', which offers either a spectacular barrel or a bonecrunching wipeout, but you might find you have to back door it.

1999, Mark Warren, Mark Warren's Atlas of Australian Surfing, traveller's, →ISBN, page 103:

(surfing) To enter a tube by accelerating from behind; to surf into an already formed hollow wave, in contrast to the normal method of slowing to allow a surfable wave to form.


backward pass

(American football) A pass thrown backwards instead of forward, equivalent in the rules to a hand-off.


offensive line

(American football, Canadian football) The five players of the team possessing the ball comprising the center, the left and right offensive guards, and the left and right offensive tackles who are positioned around the ball at the line of scrimmage.

(American football, Canadian football, uncommon) The seven players required to be within one yard of the line of scrimmage in an offensive formation.

(American football, Canadian football, uncommon) All of the offensive players, whether obligatory or not, lined up one yard or less from the line of scrimmage.


lateral pass

(American football) a pass thrown laterally and that counts as a hand-off

(American football) any hand-off, whether lateral or backward


incision

en-noun

incision (countable and uncountable, plural incisions)

From Middle English inscicioun, from Middle French incision, from Late Latin incisiō from the verb incidō (“I cut into”) + action noun suffix -iō.

Riyad Mahrez also dragged wide after a De Bruyne incision.

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


run out

en-verb

run out (third-person singular simple present runs out, present participle running out, simple past ran out, past participle run out)

runs out (present singular third-person)
running out (participle present)
ran out (past)
run out (participle past)

Jackson was run out for a duck in the first over.

With three runs needed from two balls, Adil Rashid was run out coming back for a second. When Wood suffered the same fate from the final ball, the match was tied.

2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London:

(cricket) To get a batsman out via a run out (see runout)


carbuncle

/ˈkɑɹˌbʌŋ.kl̩/

From Middle English carbuncle, charbocle, from Old French carbuncle, charbuncle, from Latin carbunculus (“a small coal; a reddish kind of precious stone; a kind of tumor”), diminutive of carbō (“a coal, charcoal”).

der

(archaic) A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.

(heraldry) A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone, with eight sceptres or staves radiating from a common centre; an escarbuncle.


ROC

Translingual: ROC

(sports) Abbreviation of Russia(n) Olympic Committee.

COR

Russian Olympic Committee, an organization

Coordinate term: IROC

(motor racing) Abbreviation of Race of Champions.


skateboard

(sports, recreation) A narrow, wooden or plastic platform mounted on pairs of wheels, on which one stands and propels oneself by pushing along the ground with one foot.


quadruple double

Norwegian Bokmål: firdobbel-dobbel

(basketball) The achievement of a two-digit number of any four of points scored, assists, rebounds, blocks, or steals in a single game.


quintuple double

en-noun

quintuple double (plural quintuple doubles)

Norwegian Bokmål: femdobbel-dobbel

(basketball) The achievement of a two-digit number of all five of points scored, assists, rebounds, blocks, and steals in a single game.


triple double

→ Norwegian Bokmål: trippel-dobbel

Yes, the Knicks had fallen prey to the habitual wizardry of the Thunder star Russell Westbrook, who had 27 points, 18 rebounds and 14 assists, his third straight triple-double and his eighth in 19 games this season.

2016 November 28, Mike Vorkunov, “Despite Flash of Rose’s Prime, Knicks Are Dazed by Westbrook and Thunder”, in The New York Times:

(basketball) The achievement of a two-digit number of any three of points scored, assists, rebounds, blocks, or steals in a single game.


environ

en-verb

environ (third-person singular simple present environs, present participle environing, simple past and past participle environed)

environs (present singular third-person)
environing (participle present)
environed (participle past)
environed (past)
environ (infinitive)

From Middle English envirounen, enviroun (“to surround in a circle or ring, or on the perimeter; to beset, besiege; to cover, enclose, envelop; to provide a setting or surrounding to; to move in a circle; to move around the perimeter; to go, move, or wander about (a place); to fill or pervade (a place); to run all the way through”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman envirouner [and other forms], Middle French environner, and Old French environner (“to arrange in a circle; to circumnavigate, travel around; to traverse, wander around; to encircle, encompass, surround”) [and other forms] (modern French environner), from environ (adverb) (see etymology 1) + -er (suffix forming verbs).
cognates
* Catalan environar (obsolete)
* Old French avironer, avironner (Middle French avironer, avironner, Anglo-Norman avironer, aviruner)
* Spanish environar (obsolete)

nb...

enueroun, enuerown, enueyron, enuiron, enuyron, enuyronne, enuyroun, enuyrounne, enuyrowne, enverom, enveron, enveroun, enverounen, enverroun, environ, environne, enviroune, envirowne, envyron, envyrone, envyroun, envyroune, envyrown

اِكْتَنَفَ

to encircle or surround (someone or something) — see also encircle, surround

Az[ure], an annulet environing a barrulet, betw[een] two bars and in chief a cross patty fitchy or.

1874, John W[oody] Papworth, “1 ANNULET betw. or within … and in chief …”, in edited by Alfred W. Morant, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland; […], London: T. Richards, […], →OCLC, page 4, column 2:

To encircle or surround (someone or something).

(heraldry, chiefly passive voice, obsolete) To encircle or surround (a heraldic element such as a charge or escutcheon (shield)).


arrows

General American, Mary–marry–merry merger

(heraldry) Short darts feathered at the ends.


septime

(fencing) The seventh defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at knee level.


goon

→ Portuguese: guna

Shortened from gooney, from obsolete gony ("simpleton", circa 1580), of unknown origin. Perhaps a familiar term derived from Middle English gone, a variant of gome (“man, person”). Gony was applied by sailors to the albatross and similar big, clumsy birds (circa 1839). The term goon first carried the meaning "stupid person" (circa 1921). Compare Scots goni, guni (“a bogey, bugbear, hobgoblin”), dialectal Swedish gonnar (“elves, goblins”, plural).
* The meaning of "hired thug" (circa 1938) is largely influenced by the comic strip character Alice the Goon from the Popeye series.
* The "fool" sense was reinforced by the popular radio program, The Goon Show, starring Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers.
* The "guard" sense was influenced by both senses 1 and 2, though not by the Goon Show reference, which arose about 10 years after WWII.

unk

unknown

cog

[…]a scout from the Flames came down from Saskatoon, said, "There's always room on our team for a goon"

2002, “Hit Somebody!”, performed by Warren Zevon:

(ice hockey, derogatory) An enforcer or fighter.


goon

en-verb

goon (third-person singular simple present goons, present participle gooning, simple past and past participle gooned)

goons (present singular third-person)
gooning (participle present)
gooned (participle past)
gooned (past)

unk

unknown

The 23-year-old posted some photos on Instagram on Saturday of himself gooning around for the camera.

2015 December 27, “Dennis Quaid's son Jack posts hilarious photo posing with his dad and siblings pulling faces on Christmas Day”, in The Daily Mail, archived from the original on 2016-01-24:

Imagine losing to a team that gooned it up and attempted to take out your best players with heavy hits?

2019 June 13, Dan Shaughnessy, “What experts are saying about the Bruins' Stanley Cup loss”, in The Boston Globe, archived from the original on 2022-12-22:

Obviously, we wanted to kill Kozlov. We thought it was the dirtiest thing in the world. Things picked up after that. We were out for blood after that. We didn't goon them. They gooned us, really, and we just had to respond.

2022 June 24, David Fleming, quoting Mike Ricci, “Fight Night at the Joe: Remembering the legendary Colorado Avalanche-Detroit Red Wings brawl of 1997”, in ESPN, archived from the original on 2022-12-22:

(transitive, slang, chiefly ice hockey) To act like a goon; to act in an intimidating or aggressive way towards opponents.


Canuck

American Dialect Society
Greenwood Publishing Group
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Leiden University
University of Alabama Press

Origin uncertain, often hypothesized to derive from the name or speech of an early Canadian minority, later broadened to denote all Canadians:
* Since 1975, many scholars have come to think the name is from Hawaiian kanaka (“man”), a self-appellation of indentured colonial canoemen and Hawaiian sailors working off the Pacific Northwest, Arctic, and New England coasts, from French canaque (“indigenous Melanesian inhabitant of New Caledonia, Kanak”); or, more likely, American whalers’ pidgin, then re-interpreted as Can(adian) + a suffix. Compare English Kanak and German Kanake.
* Some dictionaries suggest it is derived from the first syllable of Canada, or its etymon Laurentian kanata (“village”), or a related word kanuchsa meaning “villager” in either Laurentian or another Iroquoian language; with the second syllable connected to Inuktitut inuk (“man; person”), from Chinook (“Aboriginal people of the U.S. Pacific Northwest”), or another First-Nation language ending like -oc, -uc, or -uq.
* Fanciful and unlikely suggestions include German genug von Canada (literally “enough of Canada”) (allegedly uttered by German mercenaries during the American War of Independence), French quelle canule (“what a bore”) (allegedly uttered by the French during a siege of Quebec), or the surname Connaught /ˈkɑ.nəxt/ (supposedly a French-Canadian nickname for the Irish).

noncog

French Canadian
French Canadian#Adjective

(Canada, US, informal, sometimes derogatory) A Canadian person; specifically (archaic), a French Canadian person; a pea-souper; also (obsolete) a Canadian person of other non-English descent.

(ice hockey) A member of the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.

Canucksin pelaaja

(skiing) Chiefly as Crazy Canuck: a member of the Canadian alpine ski team.


Canuck

en-adj

Canuck (comparative more Canuck, superlative most Canuck)

more Canuck (comparative)
most Canuck (superlative)

(ice hockey) Of or relating to the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.

Canucks-joukkueen

of or relating to the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team


roller

→ Welsh: rholer

* From Middle English rollere, equivalent to roll + -er.
* (credits in TV or film): These were originally printed on a physical cylinder that was rotated in front of the camera.

(cricket) A large rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch.

(cycling) One of a set of rolling cylinders allowing a rider to practise balance while training indoors.


pillar

From Middle English piler, from Old French pilier, from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin *pilāre (“a pillar”), from Latin pila (“a pillar, pier, mole”).

(bodybuilding) The body from the hips over the core to the shoulders.


relay

From Middle French relai (“reserve pack of hounds”), from relaier (“to exchange tired animals for fresh”); literally, "to leave behind", from Old French relaier (“to leave behind”), from re- + laier (“to leave”), of uncertain origin.

смяна

a new set of anything that can be used to relieve the existing set when worn out

váltó

competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action — see also relay race

(sports) A competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action.

(athletics) A track and field discipline where runners take turns in carrying a baton from start to finish. The most common events are 4×100 meter and 4×400 meter competitions.


relay

en-verb

relay (third-person singular simple present relays, present participle relaying, simple past and past participle relayed)

relays (present singular third-person)
relaying (participle present)
relayed (participle past)
relayed (past)

(obsolete, intransitive, hunting) To release a new set of hounds.


hookah

Borrowed from Hindustani حقہ / हुक़्क़ा (huqqā) and , in turn, derived from Arabic حُقَّة (ḥuqqa, “pot, jar”), from حُقّ (ḥuqq, “cavity, hollow”).

(underwater diving) A tankless surface air compressor pump and umbilical piping system that supplies air to a diving mask.


encounter

From Middle English encountren, from Anglo-Norman encountrer, Old French encontrer (“to confront”), from encontre (“against, counter to”), from Late Latin incontrā (“in front of”) itself from Latin in (“in”) + contrā (“against”).

Andre Santos equalised and the outstanding Theo Walcott put Arsenal ahead for the first time before Juan Mata's spectacular strike set up the finale for an enthralling encounter.

2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:

(sports) A match between two opposing sides.


corkscrew

[…] the immovable McCoy let fly his most miraculous punch of the evening, of his lives, a world-beater of a right corkscrew, a punch years in the windup […]

2002, Darin Strauss, The Real McCoy, →ISBN, page 42:

(boxing, martial arts) A type of sharp, twisting punch, often one thrown close and from the side.

コークスクリュー

boxing, martial arts: a type of sharp, twisting punch


second new ball

en-noun

second new ball (plural second new balls)

(cricket) The first replacement new ball in an innings; in Test cricket, usually taken after 80 overs.


the Ashes

From a satirical obituary published in an English newspaper after its loss to Australia in 1882, announcing the death of English cricket and that "the body would be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia".

(cricket) A trophy played for by England and Australia in Test cricket; in the form of a small urn containing the ashes of a cremated cricket stump or set of bails.

(cricket) A series of Test cricket matches played between England and Australia.

(rugby league, sports, by extension) A nominal trophy contested by England and Australia in other sports, especially rugby league.

(rugby league, sports) A series of such test matches.


seamer

From Middle English semer, semere, from Old English sēamere (“tailor; seamer”), equivalent to seam + -er.

(cricket) A bowler skilled at making the ball seam.


scorecard

(cricket) A tabular representation of the most important statistics of an innings or match.


colorize

en-verb

colorize (third-person singular simple present colorizes, present participle colorizing, simple past and past participle colorized)

colorizes (present singular third-person)
colorizing (participle present)
colorized (participle past)
colorized (past)

There is a colorized version of Casablanca.

What we see are beautiful overlapping NASA satellite photographs of the American mainland, […]taken in black and white and then luminously colorized by computer for scientific reasons.

1988 August 26, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Looking for America”, in Chicago Reader:

(photography, cinematography) To convert black and white media to color by digital post production (as is often done in digital photography and in video special effects).

värittää

to convert a black and white media to color


horsehide

en-noun

horsehide (countable and uncountable, plural horsehides)


side out

(slang, baseball, dated, 19th c.) three outs.


sky ball

(baseball, slang, 1800s) A high fly ball


break one off

en-verb

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

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

(baseball, dated, slang, 1800s) To throw a curve ball.


saddle

→ Japanese: サドル (sadoru)

Homer Tunnel
Milford Sound
Oxford English Dictionary

From Middle English sadel, from Old English sadol, from Proto-West Germanic *sadul, from Proto-Germanic *sadulaz (“saddle”). Further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *sod-dʰlo-, from *sed- (“to sit”) + *-dʰlom (a variant of *-trom (suffix forming nouns denoting instruments or tools)), though the Oxford English Dictionary says this “presents formal difficulties”.
cognates
* Danish sadel
* Dutch zadel
* German Sattel
* Icelandic söðull
* Low German Sadel
* Russian седло́ (sedló)
* Saterland Frisian Soadel
* Scots sadil
* Swedish sadel
* West Frisian seal

saal

seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal

satula

something resembling a saddle in appearance or shape

satula

depression located along the axial trend of an anticline

Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.

The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.

satula

A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests.

satula

small object at the bottom of a string instrument below the tailpiece on which the tailgut rests


saddle

saddle (third-person singular simple present saddles, present participle saddling, simple past and past participle saddled)

saddles (present singular third-person)
saddling (participle present)
saddled (participle past)
saddled (past)
saddle (infinitive)

From Middle English sadelen (“to put a saddle on (an animal), to saddle”) [and other forms], from Old English sadolian, sadelian, sadilian (“to saddle”), from Proto-Germanic *sadulōną (“to saddle”), from *sadulaz (“a saddle”, noun) (see further at etymology 1) + *-ōną (suffix forming denominative verbs from nouns).
cognates
* Middle Dutch sādelen (modern Dutch zadelen)
* Middle Low German sādelen
* Old Danish sathlæ (modern Danish sadle)
* Old High German satalōn, satulōn (Middle High German satelen, sateln, German satteln)
* Old Norse sǫðla
* Old Swedish saþla (modern Swedish sadla)

nb...

(Late Middle English) saddull, sadylle, (Middle English) saddil, saddull, saddyll, sadel, sadele, sadil, sadille, sadillen, sadle, sadlen, sadul, sadulle, sadyl, sadyll, (Early Middle English) sadeli (West Midlands), sadelie (West Midlands), sadelien

nshiuedz

(transitive) to put a saddle on (an animal)

kiinnittää

to put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal

satuloida

(intransitive) to put a saddle on an animal

(woodworking) To cut a saddle-shaped notch in (a log or other piece of wood) so it can fit together with other such logs or pieces; also, to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this method.

loveta

to cut a saddle-shaped notch in (a log or other piece of wood) so it can fit together with other such logs or pieces; to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this method


foul tip

The foul tip hit the umpire in the shoulder.

(baseball) a foul ball which glances off the bat and continues back with only a moderate change in direction


foul tick

The catcher held onto the foul tick for the out.

(baseball, slang, rare) A foul ball which just brushes by the bat, making a ticking sound.


thrower

(cricket) A bowler who illegally throws the ball instead of bowling it.


sacrifice fly

Jones' sacrifice fly brought in the tying run.

(baseball) A fly ball that allowed a runner to advance after it was caught


sacrifice bunt

The sacrifice bunt was fielded cleanly, but the only play was to first.

The manager will likely call for a sacrifice bunt here.

(baseball) A play in which the batter intentionally hits the ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance at the cost of an out to advance one or more runners.

sacrifici

play in which the batter intentionally hits the ball softly at the cost of an out


stringer

(sports) A person who plays on a particular string.

(surfing) Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.

(baseball, slang, 1800s) A hard-hit ball.

"Okay, that's a keeper," Harold said as he netted the 3-pounder and put him on a stringer over the side of the boat.

1970, Field & Stream, volume 75, number 7, page 76:

(fishing) A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.


fastball count

Batters will often sit dead-red when there is a fastball count.

(baseball) A pitch count such that a fastball is likely to be thrown, usually 3-0 or 3-1.


dead-red

The pitch was a dead-red.


sit dead-red

en-verb

sit dead-red (third-person singular simple present sits dead-red, present participle sitting dead-red, simple past and past participle sat dead-red)

sits dead-red (present singular third-person)
sitting dead-red (participle present)
sat dead-red (participle past)
sat dead-red (past)

Popularized by broadcaster and former player Joe Morgan.

If I were him, I would sit dead-red on this 3 and 1 pitch and try to launch one.

(baseball) For a batter to look for a four-seam fastball.


swinging bunt

The catcher fielded Jones' swinging bunt and easily threw him out.

(baseball) A ball that travels a short distance as if it were bunted, but was produced by a full or checked swing.


smear

smear (third-person singular simple present smears, present participle smearing, simple past and past participle smeared)

smears (present singular third-person)
smearing (participle present)
smeared (participle past)
smeared (past)

From Middle English smeren, smerien, from Old English smerian, smyrian, smierwan (“to anoint or rub with grease, oil, etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *smirwijan, from Proto-Germanic *smirwijaną. Doublet of schmear.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian smeere, Dutch smeren, Low German smeren, German schmieren.

(climbing) To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.


smear

en-noun

smear (countable and uncountable, plural smears)

(climbing) A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact


feeder

From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed + -er.

(baseball, slang, archaic, 1800s) The pitcher.


force out

en-verb

force out (third-person singular simple present forces out, present participle forcing out, simple past and past participle forced out)

forces out (present singular third-person)
forcing out (participle present)
forced out (participle past)
forced out (past)

Jones forced out Smith to end the inning.

(baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground


force out

A force out was recorded on the scorecard.

(baseball) An instance of an out created by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.


columns

(juggling) pattern which involves throwing props in the air alternately.


drag bunt

Jones fielded the drag bunt, but the runner beat out his throw for a single.

(baseball) A ball that has been hit by a batter who started to run towards first base while holding the bat back over the plate, typically in an attempt to get a hit rather than to sacrifice

The drag bunt is a skill that few players perfect.

(baseball) The act of bunting while running towards first base


drag bunt

drag bunt (third-person singular simple present drag bunts, present participle drag bunting, simple past and past participle drag bunted)

drag bunts (present singular third-person)
drag bunting (participle present)
drag bunted (participle past)
drag bunted (past)

Jones drag bunted the pitch.

(baseball, transitive) to bunt while running towards first base

Smith often drag bunts if he sees the third baseman playing back.

(baseball, intransitive) to bunt while running towards first base


push bunt

The push bunt went between the pitcher and the first baseman who was charging too hard.

(baseball) A ball that has been hit with a bat which moves forward by a batter who is in an arms spread stance, usually in an attempt to bunt the ball past a charging infielder

The push bunt is only used in certain situations.

(baseball) The act of bunting with a bat that moves toward the ball


push bunt

push bunt (third-person singular simple present push bunts, present participle push bunting, simple past and past participle push bunted)

push bunts (present singular third-person)
push bunting (participle present)
push bunted (participle past)
push bunted (past)

Jones push bunted the pitch.

(transitive, baseball) to bunt while moving the bat towards the ball

Smith push bunts if an infielder charges too aggressively.

(intransitive, baseball) to bunt while moving the bat towards the ball


selector

(cricket) An administrator responsible for selecting which players will play for a side.


hand out

(baseball, slang, 1800s) a player is out


sector

Sector (Star Trek)
Sector (instrument)
sector

(motor racing) A fixed, continuous section of the track, such that sectors do not overlap but all sectors make up the whole track.

(climbing) An area of a crag, consisting of various routes


specimen

en-noun

specimen (plural specimens or (extremely rare) specimina)

specimens (plural)
specimina (plural rare)

From Latin specimen (“mark, sign, example”), from speciō (“observe, watch”).

An individual instance that represents a class; an example.

(numismatics) A banknote printed for distribution to central banks to aid in the recognition of banknotes from a country other than their own

(philately) A postage stamp sent to postmasters and postal administrations so that they are able to identify valid stamps and to avoid forgeries


skiing

(sports) A group of sports using skis as primary equipment.


bus stop

bus stop chicane
bus stop chicane#English

(motor racing) Ellipsis of bus stop chicane.


AT

AT (countable and uncountable, plural ATs)

anaerobic threshold
anaerobic threshold#English

(US, sports) Initialism of anaerobic threshold.


second slip

(cricket) The fielding position between first slip and third slip.


third session

(cricket) the session of a day's play between tea and close of play


second session

(cricket) the session of a day's play between lunch and tea


sightscreen

The batsman swung and thwacked it behind him over the sight-screens.

1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 24:

(cricket) A large screen, at each end of a cricket field, coloured to provide visual contrast to the cricket ball, to aid the batsman in seeing its movement through the air.


short leg

When he dismissed Keith Miller, caught at short leg off a lifter, I turned round to Tony Lock[.]

1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 148:

(cricket) A fielding position on the leg side, square of, and close to the batsman.


shoulder arms

en-verb

shoulder arms (third-person singular simple present shoulders arms, present participle shouldering arms, simple past and past participle shouldered arms)

shoulders arms (present singular third-person)
shouldering arms (participle present)
shouldered arms (participle past)
shouldered arms (past)

(intransitive, cricket) To deliberately lift the bat out of the path of the ball when it is judged to be missing the wicket.


banjo hit

(baseball) A weakly hit fly ball which goes just over the infielders.


show a little ginger

show a little ginger (third-person singular simple present shows a little ginger, present participle showing a little ginger, simple past showed a little ginger, past participle showed a little ginger or shown a little ginger)

shows a little ginger (present singular third-person)
showing a little ginger (participle present)
showed a little ginger (past)
showed a little ginger (participle past)
shown a little ginger (participle past)

(baseball, slang, 1800s) To play harder or smarter.


short of a length

(idiomatic, cricket) of a ball that pitches short of a good length; a ball that bounces closer to the bowler than the area of the pitch regarded as the best for dismissing or restricting the scoring of the batsman.


plug the runner

plug the runner (third-person singular simple present plugs the runner, present participle plugging the runner, simple past and past participle plugged the runner)

plugs the runner (present singular third-person)
plugging the runner (participle present)
plugged the runner (participle past)
plugged the runner (past)

(baseball, slang, 1800s) Synonym of soak the runner


baseman

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(baseball, softball) A player positioned at or near a base: first baseman, second baseman or third baseman.


soak the runner

soak the runner (third-person singular simple present soaks the runner, present participle soaking the runner, simple past and past participle soaked the runner)

soaks the runner (present singular third-person)
soaking the runner (participle present)
soaked the runner (participle past)
soaked the runner (past)

(baseball, slang, 1800s) To throw the ball at the runner in order to "tag" him out (illegal after 1845).


daisy cutter

* From plowing through a field and flattening and mowing down hypothetical daisies.
* (explosive): From flattening vegetation in a round region creating a clearing reminiscent of a daisy flower

(baseball, slang, dated, 1800s) A well-struck ground ball.

(cricket) A ball that bounces more than once before reaching the batsman.


boodler

(slang, baseball, dated, 19th century) A person displaying unsportsmanlike behavior.


CIS

(Canada, sports, historical) Initialism of Canadian Interuniversity Sport, former name of U Sports.


muffin

→ Chinese: 瑪芬／玛芬 (mǎfēn)

→ Danish: muffin

→ Esperanto: mafino

→ Finnish: muffini, muffinssi, muffinsi

→ French: muffin

→ German: Muffin

→ Japanese: マフィン (mafin)

→ Korean: 머핀 (meopin)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: muffins

→ Polish: muffin

→ Portuguese: muffin

→ Russian: ма́ффин (máffin)

→ Swedish: muffins

→ Yiddish: מאָפֿין (mofin)

From earlier moofin, probably a diminutive of Low German Muffe ("small cake"; Muffen (plural)), from Middle Low German muffe (“small pastry”). An alternative, and phonologically less plausible theory suggests a connection to Old French (pain) moflet (“roll”, literally “soft (bread)”).

gl

"small cake"; <i class="Latn mention" lang="nds">Muffen</i> (plural)

ncog

(baseball, slang) A less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball.

(ice hockey, slang) A very weak shot in ice hockey where the puck does not travel fast.


sheet anchor

(cricket) A batsman who provides dependable defence while a series of other batsmen score rapidly.


ump

If you take it to court, you're the guy who screams at the ump ’cause they don't like the call at the plate.

2006, Eli Attie and John Wells, The West Wing, season 7, episode 17 “Election Day Part II”


steamer

From steam + -er. The steamer duck or steamer (sense 6.2) is apparently named for its resemblance to a paddle steamer when swimming rapidly.

(horse racing) A racehorse the odds of which are becoming shorter (that is, decreasing) because bettors are backing it.


waved

en-adj

waved (comparative more waved, superlative most waved)

more waved (comparative)
most waved (superlative)

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five-by-five

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(basketball) A performance in which a player accumulates five points in each of five statistical categories (points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks) in a single game.


VAR

en-noun

VAR (countable and uncountable, plural VARs)

[Harry] Kane was the victim in incidents plucked straight from the world of wrestling in each half, and on neither occasion did any of the officials – on the pitch or in the VAR booth – see fit to intervene in what were obvious penalties.

2018 June 18, Phil McNulty, “Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2019-04-21:

video assistant referee
video assistant referee#English

(soccer) Initialism of video assistant referee.


attacker

(soccer) One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.

مُهَاجِم

(soccer) movement of the team in possession of the ball


plateau

Borrowed from French plateau, diminutive of plat (“a plate”); see plate. Doublet of platter.

(sports, broadcasting) A notable level of attainment or achievement.


blooper

Again the blooper wafted up to the plate. Ted waited and waited and then let loose. The ball rose in a high trajectory and sailed deep into the bullpen for a homer. The fans roared. The slugger had killed the blooper.

1949, Jimmy Powers, Baseball Personalities: The Most Colorful Figures of All Time, New York, N.Y.: R. Field, →OCLC, page 254:

The blooper, delivered with a shot-put motion, floated in an arc that reached twenty-five feet, then suddenly dropped across home plate in the strike zone.

2003, Richard F. Peterson, The Pirates Reader, Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 139:

(baseball, slang) A fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders.


submariner

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/sʌbˈmæɹɪnə/

/sʌbˈmæɹɪnɚ/

Jones was a submariner and could often confuse a batter with his unorthodox delivery.

(US, baseball) A pitcher that throws with an underhand motion.


rearguard

/ˈɹɪəɹˌɡɑɹd/

From rear + guard. Attested in The Song of Roland circa 1150 (rereguarde). Doublet of retrogarde.

Mancini's side only showed enough ambition when it was too late and by then battle lines were drawn as James Collins and former City captain Richard Dunne fought a magnificent rearguard action at the heart of Villa's defence.

2011 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:

(soccer) The defence, collectively the defenders.


fisticuffs

In his college days of athletic exercises, Mr. Crisparkle had known professors of the Noble Art of fisticuffs, […]

1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, “Chapter XVII”, in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:

(plural only, sports, dated) Bare-knuckled boxing, a form of boxing done without boxing gloves or similar padding.


sleeper

(martial arts, wrestling) A sleeper hold.


back into

en-verb

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

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

The 2006 St. Louis Cardinals backed into the playoffs.

(sports, idiomatic) To advance to the post-season as a result of another team's loss, especially where one's own team has also lost.

I didn't have any other options, I was backed into it.

(sports, idiomatic) To be forced into a situation by circumstances.


on the line

The ball was on the line but the umpire ruled it out.

(sports) On one of the lines marked on a playing field or court; (by extension) within bounds.

viivalla

sports:on a line marked on field or court


sejant

French séant, present participle of seoir (“to sit”). Doublet of sedent.


hardwood

en-noun

hardwood (countable and uncountable, plural hardwoods)

(sports, slang) The sport of basketball, in particular, an indoor basketball court; so named because the floor of an indoor basketball court is normally made of hardwood.


lineup

The manager fielded his strongest lineup for the game against United.

Elton Brand in 1998 missed 15 games because of an injury in the middle of the year but returned to the lineup late in the season, so he is listed as a starter here. The aim here is to list the lineup that was in use near the end of each season […]

2006, John Roth, Ned Hinshaw, The Encyclopedia of Duke Basketball, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 369:

Before any game, a team is usually quite interested in its opponent's lineup.

2007, Larry Stockstill, He Teaches My Hands to War, page 133:

Rossi's five starts during the 2015 Formula One season were more like a tryout for the Manor Marussia team, in which he replaced Roberto Merhi for a few races in order to help the team decide what its driver lineup would be the next year.

2022, Elizabeth Blackstock, Alanis King, Racing with Rich Energy, page 75:

(sports) Collectively, the members of a team.

formació

sports: collectively, the members of a team

More than any other batter in the lineup, he can keep the inning going with a a base hit, and over a season he'll have as many at-bats as teh lead-off man and thus hit hard and often for his team.

1993, Jerry Kindall, Baseball: Play the Winning Way, page 248:

For example, as before, the leadoff hitter for the visiting team in the top of the first inning fails to come to bat and the #2 batter in the lineup subsequently becomes the initial batter in the inning.

2015, Andres Wirkmaa, The Complete Baseball Scorekeeping Handbook, page 70:

That meant Howell moved from a weak-hitting lineup to a great-hitting lineup, and players generally said they hit better if they had better hitters around them.

2022, Paul Aron ·, The Lineup: Ten Books That Changed Baseball, page 96:


first blood

(sports) The first score in a competition.


carom

carom (countable and uncountable, plural caroms)

Probably derived from French carambole (the red ball in billiards).

(countable, cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.

carambola

shot in which the cue ball strikes two balls


streamer

From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream + -er.

(fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.


yard sale

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Pro athletes are expected to be Very Online. Some polish their profiles to a high shine; Courtney rides her own line. There are the obligatory golden-hour shots, but her Insta also has quirky strength-training videos and footage of total yard sales—like her endoing on a training ride this spring.

2019 December 9, “The 2019 Outsiders of the Year”, in Outside:

No yard sales on my watch!

2021 February 16, Charlie Berens and DudeDad, The 5 People on the Ski Slopes:

(sports) The state of a skier, snowboarder, skateboarder, cyclist, etc. and their equipment after a severe crash, laid out across the ground like items in a yard sale.

(sports, by extension) A notable fall during a sports activity, such as trail running.


weight-train

en-verb

weight-train (third-person singular simple present weight-trains, present participle weight-training, simple past and past participle weight-trained)

weight-trains (present singular third-person)
weight-training (participle present)
weight-trained (participle past)
weight-trained (past)

(intransitive, weightlifting) To take part in weight training


weight training

(weightlifting) A form of physical exercise using weights to increase the strength and size of muscles by using exercises specific for each muscle group.


line up

line up (third-person singular simple present lines up, present participle lining up, simple past and past participle lined up)

lines up (present singular third-person)
lining up (participle present)
lined up (participle past)
lined up (past)

The Nigerian forward lined up on the left of a front three with Keane in the middle and Frederic Piquionne on the right, and it was from Keane's lay-off that the former Portsmouth striker curled a shot straight at Ben Foster on 20 minutes.

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

(intransitive, sports) To start a game in a certain position on the playing field.

alinear

sports: to start a game in a certain position


merm

(hairdressing, informal) A permanent for a man.


sharpshooter

sharp + shooter, a calque of German Scharfschütze.

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling) A submission hold characterized by one wrestler twisting the other's legs upwards while sitting on their back.


biff

biff (third-person singular simple present biffs, present participle biffing, simple past and past participle biffed)

biffs (present singular third-person)
biffing (participle present)
biffed (participle past)
biffed (past)

(informal, sports) To wipe out; to faceplant; to fall.


DW

(dance) Initialism of diagonally to the wall.


camera flash

(photography) A device that produces a short flash of light to help illuminate a scene, mostly for night-time or indoors photography, to make the picture brighter.


silly mid off

(cricket) a fielding position, on the off side, forward of the batsman's wicket, and very near the batsman; a fielder in this position


silly mid on

(cricket) a fielding position, on the leg side, forward of the batsman's wicket, and very near the batsman; a fielder in this position


silly point

(cricket) A fielding position, on the off side, square of the batsman's wicket, and very near the batsman; a fielder in this position.


schtick

(sports, games) The stick used to play schlockey.


creeper

From Middle English crepere, from Old English crēopere, equivalent to creep + -er. Slang usage derived from phrase give the creeps or creep out (distinct from merely one who creeps).

May joined Hutton and proceeded to play masterly cricket in which the straight-drive predominated. There was always the possibility that he might be trapped by a creeper, but May watched the ball intently.

2009, Steven Lynch, Wisden on the Ashes, page 292:

(cricket) A ball that travels low, near ground level.


stop-motion

en-noun

stop-motion (countable and uncountable, plural stop-motions)

Jan Švankmajer’s stop-motion looks angry, rough, and primal; Henry Selick’s is so polished and smooth that it resembles CGI.

2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club:

(uncountable, photography) An animation technique wherein physical objects are slightly altered and photographed one picture at a time to give an illusion of movement when displayed in sequence.


clean and jerk

(weightlifting) The act of lifting the barbell from the floor to a resting position across the front of the shoulders (the clean phase), pausing, and thrusting the barbell over the head to a stationary position in one movement (the jerk phase). The normal technique for both parts of this act involves propelling the barbell upwards, quickly lowering the torso, and then straightening the legs.


clean and jerk

(weightlifting) To lift and manipulate a weight in this fashion.


dunking

(basketball) Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above.


backstop

(baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.

Bench may be the greatest catcher subjectively, but he's not statistically. Statwise, Yogi Berra is the all-time backstop, regardless of which measure you prefer. Berra's Total-Z is one-third of a standard deviation higher than Bench's, and his Core-Z average is a point better.

2002, James F. Vail, Outrageous Fortune: What's Wrong with Hall of Fame Voting and How to Make It Statistically Sound, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 143:

(baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.


toe edge

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(snowboarding) The sharp edge on the long side of a snowboard closest to one's toes, regardless of which way one if facing (up-mountain or down-mountain) or riding (goofy or regular).


takedown

Takedown (grappling) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

(martial arts) A taking down: an act of bringing one's opponent to the ground by grabbing one or both legs and applying a rearward bending moment.


plowing

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(snowboarding): riding with neither foot leading, with the stick perpendicular to the fall line; not goofy nor regular.


fall line

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(snowboarding, skiing) The imaginary line downhill that something falling downhill would naturally follow.


ollie

From Ollie. Named after American skateboarder Alan Gelfand (1963–), via the Floridian skateboarder's nickname.

named-after

In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]

2007, Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Böttger, Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism, page 124:

(skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding) An aerial maneuver in which one catches air by leaping off the ground with the skateboard and into the air.


meatball

→ Japanese: ミートボール

→ Korean: 미트볼 (miteubol)

And then. A 98.4 fastball on the inside half of the plate, ring him up, Strike 3, game over. It wasn’t a meatball like Terrence Long watched to finish 2003 ALDS Game 5, but it felt the same.

2020, Alex Hall, “Oakland A’s faced all their nightmares in Game 3 and wrote a new ending”, in Athletics Nation:

(baseball) An easy pitch to hit, especially thrown right down the middle of the plate.


right back

(soccer) a defender who normally plays on the right side of the field


derby

→ German: Derby

→ Spanish: derbi

→ Hungarian: derbi

→ Japanese: ダービー (dābī)

→ Polish: derby

→ Portuguese: dérbi

→ Russian: де́рби (dérbi)

→ Chinese: 德比 (débǐ)

From Epsom Derby horse race, named after Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby.

named-after

(sports) A sports match between rival teams.

Defeat sees Forest remain a point outside the top six with a derby against Leicester up next.

2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport:

The left-back had been a selection concern because of an injury niggle but his first goal since last March swung this derby decisively in United’s favour, extending their club record unbeaten run away from home in the Premier League to 22 games and torpedoing City’s sequence of 21 straight wins in all competitions.

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


SSI

Scuba Schools International
w:Scuba Schools International

(underwater diving) Initialism of Scuba Schools International.


half-pipe

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But the kid who washed windows for $2 an hour when he was 8 so he could buy his first snowboard served notice he could be a contender at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics with a silver medal yesterday in men's halfpipe.

2009 January 24, Randy Starkman, “Silver medal eases pain for Batchelor at world championships”, in Toronto Star:

(skateboarding, snowboarding, skiing, BMX, rollerskating, kickscootering, etc.) A structure used to perform tricks, approximately semicircular in cross-section, resembling the bottom half of a cylinder lying down.


cascade

From French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”), from Vulgar Latin *cāsicāre, derived from Latin cadere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d-.

(juggling) A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.


wheels

Martin: Just for legs, Tom Platz in his heyday has never been approached.
OB205: I totally agree with this, even to this day no one can beat those WHEELS!

1999 March 22, “OB205”, “Re: Freakiest Bodybuilder?”, in misc.fitness.weights (Usenet):

But Mary J. goes all-out during big leg day, and look at her wheels—toned but very feminine.

2004 December 28, Mark Jenkins, Jeff O’Connell, The Jump Off: 60 Days to a Hip-Hop Hard Body, HarperCollins, page 76:

...try this big wheels program to pack on muscle to your quads and hams.

2006 April 30, Jim Stoppani, Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength, Human Kinetics Publishers, page 131:

(bodybuilding, slang) Well-developed thigh muscles.


sortie

PIE word
 *upó
The noun is borrowed from French sortie (“act of exiting; exit, way out; (military) sally, sortie”), the feminine past participle of sortir (“to exit, go out”), from Old French sortir, from Latin sortīrī, the present active infinitive of sortior (“to cast or draw lots; to choose, select; to distribute, divide; to obtain, receive; to share”), from sors (“something used to determine chances, a lot; casting or drawing of lots; decision by lot; a share”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, tie together; a thread”)), possibly influenced by surrēctus (“arisen, having been caused to arise; gotten up, having been gotten up”), the perfect passive participle of surgō (“to arise, get up, rise”), from subrigō (“to lift up; to straighten”), from sub- (prefix meaning ‘beneath, under’) + regō (“to direct, guide, steer; to govern, rule; to manage, oversee”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to right oneself, straighten; just; right”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.

scramble

emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft

Kai Johansen made a sortie down the right and, running out of ideas, tried a shot from more than 20 yards.

1998, David Potter, Tom Campbell, Jock Stein: The Celtic Years, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN:

(by extension)
(figuratively)
(sports) An attacking move.

(photography) A series of aerial photographs taken during the flight of an aircraft; (by extension) a photography session.


hard count

Jones is good at drawing a defense offside with his hard count.

(American football) The situation where the quarterback attempts to draw the defense offside through a deceptive snap count sequence, sometimes accompanied by subtle body movements which simulate the initiation of the play.


dead bird

Jones got on board with a dead bird to start the innning.

(baseball, slang) A ball which falls over the infielders’ heads for a hit, as if it were a bird shot by a hunter.


retorted

Gules, a lion rampant, his tail forked Or; crest, a pied bull proper; dexter supporter, a griffin parted per fesse, argent and Or; sinister supporter, the same as the crest, horns, collar, and chain retorted, Or.

1769, John Thorpe, Registrum Roffense, page 804:


linebacker

The linebacker corralled the runner who had slipped through the hole.

(American football) The defensive players who are in position behind the defensive linemen and in front of the safeties and cornerbacks and whose principal responsibilities are to tackle runners and to defend against shorter passes.


carving

calving (non-rhotic, Received Pronunciation, trap–bath split)

(snowboarding) Executing turns without pivoting.


NASCAR

2008 February 16, Peter Sagal (host), Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio
Chuck Liddell, also known as Ice Man, is one of the stars of the sport that has been called the NASCAR of the twenty-first century, mixed martial arts.

(sports) Acronym of National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, a U.S. auto racing organization founded in 1948.


cadence

en-noun

cadence (countable and uncountable, plural cadences)

Borrowed from Middle French cadence, from Old Italian cadenza (“conclusion of a phrase of music”), from Latin *cadentia (literally “a falling”), form of cadēns, the present participle of cadō (“I fall, I cease”). The Latin verb is inherited, via Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱad-e- (“to fall”, thematic present). Doublet of cadenza and chance.

der

The cadence in a galliard step refers to the final leap in a cinquepace sequence.

(dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.

závěr

(music) chord progression concluding a section or piece

(fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.

rytmi

(fencing) series of actions’ rhythm and sequence

(cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.

rytme

(cycling) number of revolutions per minute

(horseracing) The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground


SB

en-noun

SB (countable and uncountable, plural SBs)

(sports) Initialism of season best. (this season's personal best).

(baseball) Abbreviation of stolen base.; The statistic reporting the number of stolen bases.


fairway

(golf) The area between the tee and the green, where the grass is cut short.

carrer

(golf) the area between the tee and the green


steals

He has 25 steals this year.

(baseball, informal) The number of stolen bases by a baserunner.


guarded

en-adj

guarded (comparative more guarded, superlative most guarded)

more guarded (comparative)
most guarded (superlative)

On the helmet , which is of gold, affrontee, guarded with perpendicular bars, and adorned with a mantled gules, doubled, or, is this crest.

1819, Thomas George Lomax, A Short Account of the City and Close of Lichfield: To which is Added A Short Account of the Cathedral ..., page 31:

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

1866, John Edwin Cussans, The Grammar of Heraldry, page 84:

Sable, an eagle displayed argent, crowned with an electoral bonnet gules, guarded argent (or ermine).

Or, three swords in fess palewise azure, guarded vert, hilted gules; unidentified. Fouquet suggests that this is the device of the fictional king of Monteini, but notes that it might be the device of the fictional king of Bicheny.

2015 12, Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson, Arthurian Literature XXXII, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 160:

(especially heraldry) Having a guard, e.g. a crossguard (on a sword), a faceguard (on a helmet), or a hatguard (on a chapeau).


letterbox

His strength was running out fast: one more good letterbox was all that he could conceive himself able to make. He made it, hacking away with slow, painful strokes, his axe-handle slippery with his sweat.

1954, Daniel Talbot, A Treasury of Mountaineering Stories, page 239:

(mountaineering) A rectangular hole or slot.


schooling

en-noun

schooling (countable and uncountable, plural schoolings)

(dressage) The training of a horse at dressage.


play ball

en-verb

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

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

(baseball, softball) An expression used at the beginning of a game of baseball or softball.

jugueu

if there's grass on the field, play ball

if there's grass on the pitch, play ball


sticks

It was a maiden race over the "sticks," and the trainer's instructions were to slip off and make the running throughout.

1902, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, volume 40, page 469:

Do they prefer flat or 'over the sticks' (jump races)? Does the group know what the races with jumps are called?

2009, Anni Bowden, Nancy Lewthwaite, The Activity Year Book, page 124:

(horse racing) Hurdles or other obstacles to be jumped over.


net minder

(ice hockey) goalkeeper, player whose role it is to defend the goal


sudden death

en-noun

sudden death (countable and uncountable, plural sudden deaths)

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(sports, games) A period or mode of play in which the next player or team to score wins instantly; often in an extra period of time following a tie at the end of the regular period of play.


casting

casting (countable and uncountable, plural castings)

From Middle English castyng, castinge, equivalent to cast + -ing.

"The dogs were no sooner let loose, than the hare was afoot. This time there was no stopping or casting, but the hounds were soon in full cry, and after half-an-hour's run, the hare came dancing down the moor towards me."

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 77:

(hunting) Of hounds, the act of spreading out and searching for a scent.


sea horse

From Middle English sehors (“walrus”), equivalent to sea + horse. Probably a calque of obsolete French cheval de mer or directly of Late Latin caballus marinus.

(philately) any of a series of British high value stamps issued during the reign of King George V featuring a depiction of Britannia on a chariot in choppy seas.


barleycorn

(architecture, woodworking) A small groove between two moldings.


potent

[ˈpʰoʊ̯ʔn̩t]

[ˈpʰəʉ̯ʔn̩t]

From Middle English potent, borrowed from Latin potens, potentis (“powerful, strong, potent”), present participle of posse (“to be able”), from potis (“able, powerful, originally a lord, master”).

der

(heraldry) A heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of blue and white T shapes.


coon

en-verb

coon (third-person singular simple present coons, present participle cooning, simple past and past participle cooned)

coons (present singular third-person)
cooning (participle present)
cooned (participle past)
cooned (past)

(climbing) To traverse by crawling, as a ledge.


welter-weight

Originally “heavyweight horseman” (1832), from welter (“heavyweight horseman”) + weight. Boxing sense 1896.

compound

(boxing) between lightweight and middleweight


welter-weight

(boxing) a boxer weighing more than a lightweight boxer and less than a middleweight boxer; someone boxing in the welterweight class

(horse racing) A weight of 28 pounds (or 40 pounds: a heavy welterweight), sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races.


midge

From Middle English mydge, migge, from Old English mygg, myċġ (“midge, gnat”), from Proto-West Germanic *muggju, from Proto-Germanic *mugjō, from Proto-Indo-European *mū- (“fly, midge”), *mu-, *mew-.
cognates
* Scots mige (“midge”)
* Saterland Frisian Määge (“gnat, mosquito”)
* West Frisian mich (“fly, mosquito”)
* West Flemish meezje (“midge, mosquito”)
* Dutch mug (“midge, gnat, mosquito”)
* German Low German Mügge (“midge, gnat, mosquito”)
* German Mücke (“midge, gnat, mosquito”)
* Swedish mygg, mygga (“midge, gnat, mosquito”)
* Icelandic mý (“midge, gnat, fly”)
The Proto-Indo-European root was also the source of
* Latin musca
* Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa)
* Russian му́ха (múxa)
* Latvian muša
* Czech muchnička
* Albanian mizë
* Armenian մուն (mun)

cog

(fishing) any bait or lure designed to resemble a midge


pano

It sounds hard on paper, but it's simple to do in person, and because it takes so little time, you'll wind up shooting more panos, which is a good thing.

2012, Scott Kelby, Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Boxed Set:


uke

From Japanese 受け (uke), derived from the verb 受ける (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).

(judo, martial arts) The training partner against whom tori performs a move.


sophomore

From earlier sophumer, from the obsolete sophom, sophum (“sophism or dialectical exercise”), from Ancient Greek σόφισμα (sóphisma). Likely influenced by Ancient Greek σοφός (sophós, “wise”) + μωρός (mōrós, “fool”). Compare oxymoron (literally “sharp-dull”), a similar contradiction.

The filly had looked promising as a sophomore, but concerns over her health had prompted the owner to pull her from the season’s early races.

(US, horse-racing) A three-year-old horse.


hang up one's boots

en-verb

hang up one's boots (third-person singular simple present hangs up one's boots, present participle hanging up one's boots, simple past and past participle hung up one's boots)

hangs up one's boots (present singular third-person)
hanging up one's boots (participle present)
hung up one's boots (participle past)
hung up one's boots (past)

(informal, sports) To retire from or stop playing a field sport.


bandit

en-noun

bandit (plural bandits or (archaic) banditti)

bandits (plural)
banditti (archaic plural)

Borrowed from Italian bandito (“outlawed”), a derivative of Italian bandire (“to ban”), from Late Latin bandīre, an alteration (due to Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bandwjan, “to signal”)) of Late Latin bannīre (“to ban”), from Frankish *bannan (“to ban”). Doublet of bandito.

(sports, slang) A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.


marbles

Some corners are littered with marbles, off the racing line.

2014, Amen Zwa, Going Nowhere Fast In Assetto Corsa (2015-05-01), →ISBN, page 395:

(motor racing) Bits of rolled-up rubber shed by the tires of race cars that accumulate at the edges of the track, especially at the corners.


all-American

/ˌɔːl əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/

/ˌɔl əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/

aitoamerikkalainen

comprising things wholly from the United States of America; made in the United States

He was an all-American basketball player last year.

After having conducted a country-wide poll of experts, Vanity Fair has chosen a truly All-American Collegiate Basketball Team. The nine picked is the result of the combined opinions of sporting editors, college coaches, graduate managers and old players from Cambridge, to Palo Alto and from Minneapolis to Atlanta.

1915 July, “Vanity Fair’s All-American College Basketball Team”, in Frank Crowninshield, editor, Vanity Fair, volume 4, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Vanity Fair Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 30:

I would rather a boy were a fine moral character, 5 feet 3 inches tall and unable to run a 100 yards in 20 seconds, than to see him 6 feet tall, weighing 180 pounds, an all-American full-back with a set of morals that disgraces his family and community.

1922 March 30, W[illiam] J[ames] Monilaw, “Papers Read at the Annual Convention of the Middle West Society of Physical Education, March 30, 31, April 1, 1922: President’s Address”, in James Huff McCurdy, editor, American Physical Education Review, volume XXVIII, number 2 (number 184 overall), Springfield, Mass.: American Physical Education Association, published February 1923, →OCLC, page 47, column 2:

In 1888 [Walter] Camp selected the first All-American team, an exercise that has continued into the twenty-first century. Each member of the team is chosen because he is the best of all players nationwide at playing his particular position.

2012, Larzer Ziff, “America as Middle Class: Adolescence, Frank Merriwell, Penrod”, in All-American Boy (Discovering America; 4), Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 95:

(US, chiefly sports) Of a person or a team, or some other thing: regarded as the best in the United States.


all-American

/ˌɔːl əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/

/ˌɔl əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/

[Bennie] Oosterbaan won letters in football, basketball, and baseball, and was selected as an All-American end for three successive years.

1930, “Athletics”, in George E. Leonard, editor, Michiganensian of 1930, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Published by the Senior Class of the University of Michigan, →OCLC, page 191:

Among the players he [Ward Lambert] coached were the legendary John Wooden, a three-time All-American; three-time All-American Charles "Stretch" Murphy; and All-Americans Don White, Ray "Candy" Miller, George Spradling, Norm Cotton, Emmett Lowery, Robert Kessler, Jewell Young, and Paul Hoffman.

2002, “Standing Tall”, in Purdue Reamer Club, compiler, A University of Tradition: The Spirit of Purdue, West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, →ISBN, page 92:

[T]he All-American [American football player] in [Walter] Camp's sense is not typical but superior, the best in America at performing the specific role he has been assigned. An All-American is one-eleventh of a whole.

We lost but that was probably the game that meant the most to me. It might have made me an All-American. I was named All-American that year and the actress Kim Novak was our host for the All-American luncheon and dinners. God, she was so gorgeous.

2014, Paul Hornung, Chuck Carlson, “Under the Golden Dome”, in The Paul Hornung Scrapbook, Chicago, Ill.: Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 43:

In lacrosse, the legacy of greatness belongs to No. 22. And unlike football's 44, lacrosse's 22 is still in circulation and still churning out All-Americans.

2014, Scott Pitoniak, “The Legend of 22”, in 100 Things Syracuse Fans should Know & Do before They Die, Chicago, Ill.: Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 243:

(US, chiefly sports) A person or a team, or some other thing, regarded as the best in the United States.


matte

The image is a perfect square of 8 cm (with white matte border the total dimensions are 14 cm tall by 11 cm wide).

(art, photography) A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.


mantel

A variant of mantle (“cloak, robe”) now distinguished in sense.

(climbing) A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body.


mantel

en-verb

mantel (third-person singular simple present mantels, present participle mantelling or (US) manteling, simple past and past participle mantelled or (US) manteled)

mantels (present singular third-person)
mantelling (participle present)
manteling (US participle present)
mantelled (participle past)
mantelled (past)
manteled (US participle past)
manteled (US past)

(climbing) To surmount a ledge by pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body.


HT

en-noun

HT (countable and uncountable, plural HTs)


SFC

(soccer) Initialism of Sydney Football Club.


gymkhana

→ Catalan: gimcana

→ Italian: gincana

→ Portuguese: gincana

→ Spanish: yincana

/d͡ʒɪmˈkɑnə/

From Hindustani گیند خانہ (gendxānā) / गेंदख़ाना (gendxānā, “racquet court”), from گیند / गेंद (gend, “ball”) + خانہ / ख़ाना (xānā, “court”). Influenced by gymnastics and gymnasium.

In the afternoon the British held athletic sports, an impromptu military tournament, and a gymkhana, all of which caused much merriment and diversion, and the Boers profited by the cessation of the shell fire to shovel away at their trenches.

1900, Winston Churchill, chapter 13, in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria:

(equestrianism) A competition where riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes.


HALO

HALO (countable and uncountable, plural HALOs)

When you have enough experience, you can do a HALO jump.

(parachuting) Acronym of high altitude, low opening. A type of skydiving where one leaves the launch platform from a high altitude and opens the parachute at a very low altitude.


(baseball) triple, a baseball statistic indicating a runner has safely advanced to third base


OBP

OBP (countable and uncountable, plural OBPs)

on-base percentage
on-base percentage#English

(baseball) Initialism of on-base percentage.


(baseball) Double, a baseball statistic indicating a runner has safely advanced to second base.


ALCS

(baseball) The American League Championship Series, a best of seven game series played to determine the champion of the American League.


1B (countable and uncountable, plural 1Bs)

(baseball) The baseball statistic of one-base hits or singles.


grab some pine

en-verb

grab some pine (third-person singular simple present grabs some pine, present participle grabbing some pine, simple past and past participle grabbed some pine)

grabs some pine (present singular third-person)
grabbing some pine (participle present)
grabbed some pine (participle past)
grabbed some pine (past)

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Strike three! Grab some pine, meat! The saying references the pine benches in the dugout. It has absolutely nothing to do with pine tar used for grip on bats

(sports) Go sit on the bench. Typically used as a taunt after a strikeout. Popularized by Giants sportscaster Mike Krukow.


official at-bat

en-noun

official at-bat (plural official at-bats)

A player's batting average is his hits divided by his official at-bats.

(baseball) A completed batting opportunity that did not result in a base on balls, hit-by-pitch, sacrifice fly, sacrifice bunt, or interference or obstruction.


NLCS

National League Championship Series
w:National League Championship Series

(baseball) Initialism of National League Championship Series. It is a best of seven game series played to determine the champion of the National League and win the NL pennant.


ALDS

American League Division Series
w:American League Division Series

(baseball) Initialism of American League Division Series., a pair of best of five game series played annually by Major League Baseball teams to determine the opponents in the American League Championship Series (ALCS).


NLDS

National League Division Series
w:National League Division Series

(baseball) Initialism of National League Division Series., a pair of best of five game series played annually by Major League Baseball teams to determine the opponents in the National League Championship Series (NLCS).


enveloped

(heraldry) Entwined, as with snakes, laurels, etc.


reliever

The first reliever got the last two outs of the sixth.


walk-off

Scott Podsednik hit the twelfth walk-off home run in World Series history on October 23rd, 2005.

(baseball, of a hit) That drives in a run that ends a game.


walk-off

It was the Brewers' first walk-off walk since May 4, 2005, when Damien Miller drew a walk to win the game, 4-3, at home over the Cubs.

2010 May 27, “Brewers overcome errors in walk-off win”, in MLB.com:

(baseball) Any event or action in the bottom of the last inning of a game that scores a run and thereby ends the game with a victory to the team at bat.


LCS

League Championship Series
w:League Championship Series

(US, baseball) Initialism of League Championship Series for each of the two leagues of Major League Baseball.


Southsider

I'm no baby bear fan; I'm a Southsider.

(baseball) A player or fan of the Chicago White Sox baseball team, which plays its home games on Chicago's south side.

(soccer) A fan of the Vancouver Whitecaps football team


mantle

From Middle English mantel, from Old English mæntel, mentel (“sleeveless cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *mantil; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman mantel, both from Latin mantēllum (“covering, cloak”), diminutive of mantum (French manteau, Spanish manto), probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”). Compare Icelandic möttull. Doublet of manteau.


mantle

en-verb

mantle (third-person singular simple present mantles, present participle mantling, simple past and past participle mantled)

mantles (present singular third-person)
mantling (participle present)
mantled (participle past)
mantled (past)

(falconry) The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.

(falconry) The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.


degraded

en-adj

degraded (comparative more degraded, superlative most degraded)

more degraded (comparative)
most degraded (superlative)

/dɪˈɡɹeɪdɪd/

/dɪˈɡɹeɪdɪd/

[dɪˈɡɹeɪɾɪd]

/dɪˈɡɹæɪdɪd/

[dɪˈɡɹæɪɾɪd]

See degrade and compare French degré (“step”).

A Cross degraded Fitchee.

1725, A New Dictionary of Heraldry ... Illustrated with 196 devices on copper ... Revis'd and corrected, with a letter to the publisher, by Mr. James Coates, page 98:

Ar. a cross, degraded, sa.

1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 168:

Argent, a cross degraded and conjoined, (or issuing from eight degrees,) sable. WYNT-WORTH.

1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 99:

(heraldry, not comparable) Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.


bring up

en-verb

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

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

From Middle English bring up, dissimilated from Middle English upbringen (“to bring up, raise”). Doublet of upbring.

der

Warner smacked a four over midwicket to bring up his century.

(cricket) To reach a particular score, especially a milestone.


unmarked

Bale worked Bozovic again as he was left unmarked in the Montenegro area but could not get enough power on his header from a looping cross.

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

(sports) Not marked, not closely followed by a defensive player.


goutte

From Middle English goute, from Old French goutte, goute, gote, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Doublet of gout and gutta.

Per fesse nebuly chequy azure and or, each of the last charged with a goutte of the first, and sable, in base five estoiles, four and one of the second, all within a bordure argent, charged with eight crosses couped gules.

1915, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms: A Complete Encyclopædia of All Royal, Territorial, Municipal, Corporate, Official, and Impersonal Arms, London : T.C. & E.C. Jack, page 832:

(heraldry) A charge in the form of a teardrop shape, originally with wavy sides, but now often with straight sides.

on a lion rampant argent gouttes purpure

gouté. They may be of various tinctures

that is, semé of an indefinite number of drops


coffee grinder

(dance, gymnastics) A circular sweep of the leg around the body while supporting oneself on one's hands.


BB

en-noun

BB (countable and uncountable, plural BBs)

(baseball) A walk; the statistic reporting the number of "bases on balls".

(gymnastics) Abbreviation of balance beam.


snake eyes

From the resemblance of the two single pips to the eyes of a snake.


endomorph

/ˈɛndəʊmɔːf/

/ˈɛndəmɔːɹf/

(physical type): Derived from endoderm + -morph from William Herbert Sheldon. Equivalent to endo- + -morph.

(bodybuilding) A person having a theoretical body type with slow metabolism in which weight is gained easily, but fat levels are hard to reduce. Endomorphic bodybuilders tend to be the most massive.


ectomorph

/ˈɛktəʊmɔːf/

/ˈɛktəmɔːɹf/

Derived from ectoderm + -morph from William Herbert Sheldon. Equivalent to ecto- + -morph.

(bodybuilding): Theoretical body type in which a person has a high metabolism. Such a person can easily maintain a low fat physique, but does not add muscle or body weight easily.


Oriole

He became an Oriole as the result of a pre-season trade.

(baseball) A player on the team Baltimore Orioles.


Cardinals

(baseball) The team St. Louis Cardinals.

(American football) The team Arizona Cardinals.


yarak

From Persian یارکی (yâraki, “power, strength, ability, boldness”).

uder

Kay began walking off in the wrong direction, raging in his heart because he knew that he had flown the bird when he was not properly in yarak, and the Wart had to shout after him the right way.

1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter II, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):

(falconry) A super-alert state where the bird is hungry, but not weak, in a trance-like state of alertness and ready to hunt.


Jints

Eye dialect for popular New York City pronunciation of giants

1914 May 17, “The Old-Time Fan Refers To the Jints' Little Napoleon As a...”, in Atlanta Constitution:

The folks were quite happy about Sunday's thrilling reprieve in Philadelphia and happily confident that "d' Bums'll moider dem Jints"

1951 October 2, “VOICE OF FLATBUSH GOES UP AND DOWN; Loud Shouts of Morning Fall to...”, in New York Times:

He did about as well as could be expected with the Jints, though the halo he gained lastseason was knocked slightly askew in the process.

1952 September 4, “Sports of the Times; Wait Till Next Year”, in New York Times:

The faithful cheered loudly for their beloved Bums; they jeered loudly at the others teams, especially if they were the hated "Jints" from the Polo Grounds.

2000, G. Richard McKelvey, The MacPhails: Baseball's First Family of the Front Office, page 38:

The Polo Grounds, which had been the site of many fierce battles between the "Jints" and the "Bums," was not friendly to the home team.

2001, G. Richard McKelvey, The Bounce: Baseball Teams' Great Falls and Comebacks, page 100:

To his credit, Allen could not imagine the Jints or Bums unabiding on New York's behalf. "New York is fully capable of supporting three clubs."

2007, Curt Smith, The Voice: Mel Allen's Untold Story, page 111:

(baseball, informal) Nickname for the New York Giants, subsequently the San Francisco Giants.

On Sunday it would be even more drinking, plus the Times, and the pitiful "Jints" on TV.

2000, James Patterson, The Midnight Club, page 101:

(American football, informal) The New York Giants.

(US, sports) Nickname for many teams with name including Giants.


gapper

Bob's gapper cleared the bags.

(baseball) A ball hit through the regions between the outfielders.


dugout

Spurs, who were without boss Harry Redknapp after his heart surgery, failed to create a clear-cut chance. Redknapp is expected to be back in the dugout when Spurs play Fulham at Craven Cottage on Sunday but it was left to his assistant Kevin Bond to take a young team to Russia looking for the win that would put them through to the last 32.

2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:

(baseball, soccer) A sunken shelter at the side of a baseball or football (soccer) field where non-playing team members and staff sit during a game.

Spielerbank

where non-playing teammembers and staff sit during a game


Bums

1951 October 2, “VOICE OF FLATBUSH GOES UP AND DOWN; Loud Shouts of Morning Fall to …”, in New York Times:

(baseball) Nickname of the Brooklyn Dodgers, later the Los Angeles Dodgers.


Astro

Jones became an Astro as the result of a pre-season trade.

(baseball) A player for the Houston Astros.


FOM

(motor racing) Acronym of Formula One Management.


Astros

The Astros lead the division through half the season.


reflex

From Late Latin reflexus, past participle of reflectere (“to bend back”), equivalent to re- + flex. Photography sense is from noun sense meaning “reflection”. Compare English reflect.

A reflex camera uses a mirror to reflect the image onto a ground-glass viewfinder.

Yon gray is not the morning’s eye,
 ’Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

On the depths of death there swims
 The reflex of a human face.

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX):

Lucy is sleeping soundly; the reflex of the dawn is high and far over the sea[.]

1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page 88:

(chiefly photography) Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.


pick up

en-verb

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

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

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And soon after, no-one picked up Shotton who was free to power a 12-yard header over from another Pennant corner, before Pennant sent a free kick straight at Cardiff keeper Tom Heaton.

2011 January 18, David Dulin, “Cardiff 0-2 Stoke”, in BBC:

(soccer) To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.

(sports) To behave in a manner that results in a foul.