sink

a bathroom sink sink (canonical)
sinks (plural)

Jones has a two-seamer with heavy sink.

(uncountable) Descending motion; descent.

(baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.

Descending motion; descent.
The motion of a sinker pitch.


nibble

en-verb

nibble (third-person singular simple present nibbles, present participle nibbling, simple past and past participle nibbled)

nibbles (present singular third-person)
nibbling (participle present)
nibbled (participle past)
nibbled (past)
nibble (infinitive)

The verb is derived from Late Middle English nebillen, nebyll (“to peck away at (something), nibble; (figurative) to attempt to sing (a part of a song)”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Middle Low German nibbelen (“to eat in small bites, peck”) (modern German Low German nibbeln, gnibbeln, knibbeln), possibly a variant of knabbelen, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnet- (“to press”) or imitative.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
* Middle Dutch cnibbelen (modern Dutch knibbelen (“to gnaw; to murmur”), nibbelen (“to nibble”))
* Saterland Frisian nibje (“to nibble”)
* West Frisian knibbelje

der

(cricket, informal) Followed by at: of a batter: to make an indecisive attempt to bat a ball bowled outside the off stump.


goner

From gone + -er. First attestations around 1850.

(baseball slang) A ball hit out of the playing area for a home run.


audible

en-verb

audible (third-person singular simple present audibles, present participle audibling, simple past and past participle audibled)

audibles (present singular third-person)
audibling (participle present)
audibled (participle past)
audibled (past)

Borrowed from Middle French audible, from Late Latin audibilis, from Latin audire (“to hear”).

The quarterback audibled after seeing the defensive formation.

(intransitive, American football) To change the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one.


audible

The audible changed the play to a run.

(American football) The act of or an instance of changing the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one.


remove

remove (third-person singular simple present removes, present participle removing, simple past and past participle removed)

removes (present singular third-person)
removing (participle present)
removed (participle past)
removed (past)

settle

antonym(s) of “move something from one place to another”

From Middle English removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removēre, from re- + movēre (“to move”), equivalent to re- + move. Displaced native Old English āfierran.

យកចេញ

yɔɔ kɑɑ cəɲ, yɔɔk cəɲ

(cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.


nod

nod (third-person singular simple present nods, present participle nodding, simple past and past participle nodded)

nods (present singular third-person)
nodding (participle present)
nodded (participle past)
nodded (past)

From Middle English nodden, probably from an unrecorded Old English *hnodian (“to nod, shake the head”), from Proto-Germanic *hnudōną (“to beat, rivet, pound, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *kendʰ-, from *ken- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Compare Old High German hnotōn (“to shake”), hnutten (“to shake, rattle, vibrate”) (> modern dialectal German notteln, nütteln (“to rock, move back and forth”)), Icelandic hnjóða (“to rivet, clinch”).

inh

Jones nods the ball back to his goalkeeper.

With the hosts not able to find their passes - everything that went forward was too heavy or too short - Terry once again had to come to his side's rescue after Davies had brilliantly nodded into the path of Elmander, who followed up swiftly with a deflected shot.

2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:

(transitive, intransitive, soccer) To head; to strike the ball with one's head.


salami

en-noun

salami (countable and uncountable, plural salamis)

From Italian salami, plural of salame (“salami”), from sale (“salt”), from Latin sal.


tickle

From Middle English tiklen, tikelen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a frequentative form of Middle English tikken (“to touch lightly”), thus equivalent to tick + -le; or perhaps related to Old English tinclian (“to tickle”). Compare North Frisian tigele (“to tickle”) (Hallig dialect), and tiikle (“to tickle”) (Amrum dialect), German dialectal zicklen (“to excite; stir up”).
Alternatively, from a metathetic alteration of Middle English kitelen ("to tickle"; see kittle).

gloss

"to tickle"; see <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">kittle</i>

There's a very fine line between a tickle and an edge!

2016, Ann Waterhouse, Cricket Made Simple:

(cricket, informal) A light tap of the ball.


slog

en-noun

slog (countable and uncountable, plural slogs)

Probably a variation of slug (“to hit very hard”) or slough.
Possibly related to slag, seen in the North Germanic languages, in association with the third verb and second noun definition.

(countable, cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.


opening

From Middle English openynge, openande, openand, from Old English openiende, from Proto-West Germanic *opanōndī, from Proto-Germanic *upanōndz, present participle of *upanōną (“to open”), equivalent to open + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian iepenjend, Dutch openend, German öffnend, Swedish öppnande, Icelandic opnandi.

/ˈəʊ.pə.nɪŋ/

opens the attack
open the attack#English

(cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing a batsman who opens the innings or a bowler who opens the attack


post

→ Bulgarian: пост (post) (Internet)

→ Chinese: po, PO

Cantonese: pou¹

Mandarin: pōu

Min Nan: pho͘

→ French: post

→ Irish: post

→ Italian: post

→ Malay: pos

→ Maori: pōhi

→ Polish: post

→ Portuguese: post

→ Russian: пост (post)

→ Scottish Gaelic: post

→ Spanish: post

→ Swahili: posta

→ Welsh: post

Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta (“stopping-place for coaches”), feminine of posto (“placed, situated”).

der

Two of the receivers ran post patterns.

(American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.


movement

en-noun

movement (countable and uncountable, plural movements)

movements (plural)
mov. (alternative)
movt (alternative)
mvmt (alternative)
mvt (alternative)

From Middle English mevement, from Old French movement (modern French mouvement), from movoir + -ment; cf. also Medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere (“move”). Doublet of moment and momentum. In this sense, displaced native Old English styring, which led to Modern English stirring.
Morphologically move + -ment.

eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

The movement on his cutter was devastating.

(baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.


flipper

From flip + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Flappert (“flipper, wing”).

cog

(cricket) A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce.


pinball

en-noun

pinball (countable and uncountable, plural pinballs)

→ Portuguese: pinball

→ Spanish: pinball

The opener came from a Jarvis ball which struck Aleksandar Kolarov en route to a lively round of pinball between City players before it was poked in by Milijas.

2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC:

(figuratively, soccer) A situation where a ball is frantically kicked between many players.


offensive foul

(basketball) A foul committed by a member of the team with possession of the ball.


charging

charging (countable and uncountable, plural chargings)

/ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒɪŋ/

[ˈt͡ʃaɹd͡ʒɪŋ]

/ˈt͡ʃɑːd͡ʒɪŋ/

[ˈt͡ʃaːd͡ʒɪŋ]

Smith is called for charging, and the Nimrods will get the ball.

(uncountable, basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.


rush

Perhaps from Middle English ruschen, russchen (“to rush, startle, make a loud rushing noise”), from Old English hrysċan (“to jolt, startle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hurskijan, from Proto-Germanic *hurskijaną (“to startle, drive”), from *hurskaz (“fast, rapid, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run, hurry”).
Cognate with Old High German hursken (“to hurry, speed, incite, accelerate”), Old English horsc (“quick, quick-witted, clever”).
etymology note
An alternative etymology traces rush via Middle English rouschen (“to rush”) from Old English *rūscian (“to rush”) from Proto-Germanic *rūskōną (“to rush, storm, be fierce, be cruel”), a variant (with formative k) of Proto-Germanic *rūsōną (“to be cruel, storm, rush”) from Proto-Indo-European *(o)rewə- (“to drive, move, agitate”), making it akin to Old High German rosc, rosci (“quick”), Middle Low German rûschen (“to rush”), Middle High German rūschen, riuschen (“to rush”) (German rauschen (“to rush”)), North Frisian ruse (“to rush”), Middle Dutch ruuscen (“to make haste”), Middle Dutch rūsen (“to rush”) (Dutch ruisen (“to rush”)), Danish ruse (“to rush”), Swedish rusa (“to rush”). Compare Middle High German rūsch (“a charge, rush”). Influenced by Middle English russhen (“to force back”) from Anglo-Norman russher, russer from Old French ruser, rëuser.
Alternatively, according to the OED, perhaps an adaptation of Anglo-Norman russher, russer (“to force back, down, out of place, by violent impact", "to pull out or drag off violently or hastily”), from Old French re(h)usser, ruser (although the connection of the forms with single -s- and double -ss- is dubious; also adopted in English ruse; French ruser (“to retreat, drive back”)), from an assumed Vulgar Latin *refūsāre and Latin refundō (“I cause to flow back”), although connection to the same Germanic root is also possible. More at rouse.

раш

video games: act of running at another player with large swarm of weak units — see also zerg

the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line

(American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.


rush

en-verb

rush (third-person singular simple present rushes, present participle rushing, simple past and past participle rushed)

rushes (present singular third-person)
rushing (participle present)
rushed (participle past)
rushed (past)

(intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.


screen

From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch *skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.
An alternative etymology derives Old French escren, escran from Old Dutch *scranc (“barrier”) (compare Middle Dutch schranc, schranke (“palisade, trellis, grid”), German Schrank (“cupboard, cabinet”), German Schranke (“fence”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skrank, from Proto-Germanic *skrankaz.

der

Jones caught the foul up against the screen.

A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.

(baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects

Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player

(American football) Short for screen pass.

skerm

viewing area of electronic output device

(basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

(cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.


screen

en-verb

screen (third-person singular simple present screens, present participle screening, simple past and past participle screened)

screens (present singular third-person)
screening (participle present)
screened (participle past)
screened (past)
skreen (alternative)

(basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.


dribble

dribble (third-person singular simple present dribbles, present participle dribbling, simple past and past participle dribbled)

dribbles (present singular third-person)
dribbling (participle present)
dribbled (participle past)
dribbled (past)

→⇒ Czech: driblovat

→ Dutch: dribbelen

→ French: dribbler

→ German: dribbeln

→ Portuguese: drible, driblar

→ Spanish: driblar

From drib + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix).

suffix

(basketball, soccer) In various ball games, to move (with) the ball, controlling its path by kicking or bouncing it repeatedly.

дриблирам

to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it


all out

(cricket) The state of a side having no more men to bat, thus ending its innings.


around the wicket

(cricket) Bowling the ball from the side of the wicket that puts the bowler's bowling hand farther from the wicket


over the wicket

(cricket) bowling the ball from the side of the wicket that puts the bowler's bowling hand closer to the wicket


outswing

(cricket) The swing of the ball through the air, in a direction away from the batsman.


LBW

en-noun

LBW (countable and uncountable, plural LBWs)

The Authentic, getting in front of his wicket, to pull one of the simplest long-hops ever seen on a cricket field, missed it, and was l.b.w.

1919, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 13, in Mike:

leg before wicket
leg before wicket#English

(cricket) Initialism of leg before wicket.


stun

en-verb

stun (third-person singular simple present stuns, present participle stunning, simple past and past participle stunned)

stuns (present singular third-person)
stunning (participle present)
stunned (participle past)
stunned (past)

From Middle English stunien, stonien, stounien, from Old English stunian (“to crash, make a loud sound, resound, roar, strike with a loud sound, dash, impinge, knock, confound, astonish, stupefy”), from Proto-West Germanic *stunōn, from Proto-Germanic *stunōną, *stunjaną (“to sound, crash, bang, groan”), from Proto-Germanic *stenaną (“to moan, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tona-, *(s)tena- (“to thunder, roar, groan”) (compare thunder). Cognate with Middle Low German stonen (“to groan”), Middle High German stunen, stunden (“to drive, push, knock, strike”), Swedish stöna (“to moan, groan”), Danish stønne (“to moan, groan”), Icelandic stynja (“to moan”). Related also to Dutch steunen (“to groan; support”), German stöhnen (“to groan, moan”), German staunen (“to be astonished, be amazed, marvel at”), Russian стонать (stonatʹ), стена́ть (stenátʹ, “to moan, groan”). See also Occitan estonar, Old French estoner, English astonish.

cog

(snooker, billiards) To hit the cue ball so that it slides without topspin or backspin (and with or without sidespin) and continues at a natural angle after contact with the object ball


stun

en-noun

stun (countable and uncountable, plural stuns)

Williams will need a lot of stun to avoid going in the middle pocket

(billiards, snooker, pool) The effect on the cue ball where the ball is hit without topspin, backspin or sidespin.


fence

fence (countable and uncountable, plural fences)

→ Pennsylvania German: Fens

From Middle English fence, fens, short for defence, defens (“the act of defending”), from Old French defens, defense (see defence).
The sense "enclosure" arises in the mid 15th century.
Also from the 15th century is use as a verb in the sense "to enclose with a fence". The generalized sense "to defend, screen, protect" arises ca. 1500. The sense "to fight with swords (rapiers)" is from the 1590s (Shakespeare).
Displaced native Old English heġe (compare Modern English hedge).

the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence


back foot

(cricket) The batsman's foot closest to the wicket


back foot shot

(cricket) A shot played by the batsman with most of his weight on the back foot.


front foot shot

front foot shot (plural front foot shots)

(cricket) A shot played by the batsman with most of his weight on the front foot.


front foot

(cricket) The batsman's foot farthest from his wicket.


back up

en-verb

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

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

(idiomatic, intransitive, cricket) For the non-striker to take a few steps down the pitch, in preparation to taking a run, just as the bowler bowls the ball.

ottaa muutama askel taaksepäin

(idiomatic, intransitive, cricket) For a fielder to position himself behind the wicket (relative to a team-mate who is throwing the ball at the wicket) so as to stop the ball, and prevent overthrows.


bad light

(cricket) A weather condition where the light is so poor that the umpires feel that to continue playing would be dangerous.


offer the light

offer the light (third-person singular simple present offers the light, present participle offering the light, simple past and past participle offered the light)

offers the light (present singular third-person)
offering the light (participle present)
offered the light (participle past)
offered the light (past)

(intransitive, cricket, of the umpires) To ask the batsmen if they wish to continue playing in conditions of poor light. If they do not, play is suspended for bad light.


moving screen

(basketball, informal) An offensive foul committed when a player executing a screen moves in order to block the defender and makes contact. Technically it is a block; in other words, there is no such terminology in most rulebooks using the phrase "moving screen." This means that, for it to be a foul, there must be contact (and illegal contact at that, meaning advantage-conveying). No illegal contact, no foul, no matter how much moving the screener does.


beamer

From beam (“project, transmit”) + -er (agent noun suffix), or, for the ball, + -er (patient suffix).

suf

(cricket) A ball, presumed to have been bowled accidentally, that does not bounce, but reaches the batsman above the waist.


leg before wicket

(cricket) Describing the way of getting out in which the ball would have hit the batsman's wicket, but hits the batsman's legs or more rarely another part of the batsman's body without first hitting the bat or a hand holding the bat.


leg before wicket

en-noun

leg before wicket (plural leg before wickets)

(cricket) An instance of a batsman being out due to the leg before wicket law.


sundry

The adjective is derived from Middle English sondri, sondry, syndry (“individually; occasionally; separately; variously”) [and other forms], from Old English syndriġ (“alone, distinct, separate, single; sundry, various; concerning a single person, own, particular, peculiar, private; exceptional, remarkable, set apart, special; (distributive) one each”) [and other forms], from sundor (“differently; privately; separate, separately”) (from Proto-Germanic *sundraz (“alone, isolated; separate”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *senH- (“apart; for oneself; without”)) + -iġ (“suffix forming adjectives”). The English word is analysable as sunder + -y.
The noun and pronoun are derived from the adjective.
Cognates
* Dutch zonderlijk (“separate”) (rare), Dutch afzonderlijk (“separate”)
* Low German sunderig (“single; special”)
* Middle High German sunderig (“private; separate; special”)
* Swedish söndrig (“broken; tattered”)

nb...

sindre, sindrey, sindri, sindrie, sindry, sondery, sondrẹ̄, sondree, sondrei, sondrey, sondrie, sondry, sondrye, sonndry, soondry, soundri, soundrie, soundry, sum-dri, sunderi, sundery, sundrei, sundrey, sundri, sundrie, sundrii, sundry, syndre, (Early Middle English) sindri, sindriȝ

nb...

sindrig, syndrie, syndryg, (Northumbria) suindrig

cog

The wicketkeeper for Williamstown had a bad day, as sundries topped the score with 30.

1954, Percy Taylor, Richmond’s 100 Years of Cricket: The Story of the Richmond Cricket Club, 1854–1954, South Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic,: C. G. Meehan & Co., →OCLC:

In the modern era I sometimes feel the emphasis has erroneously shifted towards placing unwarranted importance on how few sundries are recorded.

1969, Donald Bradman, The Art of Cricket, revised edition, London: Robson Books, published 1998, →ISBN, page 167:

As for sundries, these are very often caused by erratic bowling or a nasty pitch.

1999, Ashok Kumar, “Wicket-keeping”, in Cricket (DPH Sports Series), New Delhi: Discovery Publishing House, published 2006, →ISBN, page 145:

(chiefly Australia, cricket) Synonym of extra (“a run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat”)


blockhole

blockholes (plural)
block hole (alternative)
block-hole (alternative)

(cricket) A small depression in the pitch caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the point where they have taken block.


take guard

en-verb

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

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

(idiomatic, cricket) (For a new batsman, with help from the umpire) to mark a point on the popping crease in front of his wicket so that he knows where it is behind him; to guard.


bodyline

The Cousins changed the game entirely, said the blimpish fellow: much as he might have deplored power tennis or bodyline bowling.

1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 3:

(cricket, now historical) Designating a form of bowling (now against the rules) characterised by fast, short-pitched balls aimed at the batsman's body or leg stump rather than the wicket.


benefit of the doubt

en-noun

benefit of the doubt (countable and uncountable, plural benefits of the doubt)

benefits of the doubt (plural)
BOTD (alternative)
benefit of doubt (alternative)

(cricket) The principle employed by umpires in cases of uncertainty concerning a batsman possibly being out, in which the decision must be in the batsman's favour.


bottom edge

(cricket) The edge of a bat closest to the ground.

(cricket) A deflection of a ball off of the bottom edge of a bat, onto the ground and potentially into the wicket.


bottom edge

en-verb

bottom edge (third-person singular simple present bottom edges, present participle bottom edging, simple past and past participle bottom edged)

bottom edges (present singular third-person)
bottom edging (participle present)
bottom edged (participle past)
bottom edged (past)

(cricket) To hit the ball with the bottom edge of the bat.


top edge

(cricket) The edge of a bat farthest from the ground.

(cricket) A deflection of a ball off of the top edge of a bat, into the air and potentially for a catch.


top edge

top edge (third-person singular simple present top edges, present participle top edging, simple past and past participle top edged)

top edges (present singular third-person)
top edging (participle present)
top edged (participle past)
top edged (past)

(cricket) To hit the ball with the top edge of the bat.


inside edge

(cricket) The edge of a bat closest to the body of the batsman.

(cricket) A deflection of a ball off of the inside edge of a bat, sometimes to the wicket keeper for a catch.


inside edge

inside edge (third-person singular simple present inside edges, present participle inside edging, simple past and past participle inside edged)

inside edges (present singular third-person)
inside edging (participle present)
inside edged (participle past)
inside edged (past)

(cricket) To hit the ball with the inside edge of the bat.


outside edge

(cricket) The edge of a bat farthest from the body of the batsman.

(cricket) A deflection of a ball off of the outside edge of a bat, often to the slips or wicket keeper for a catch.


outside edge

outside edge (third-person singular simple present outside edges, present participle outside edging, simple past and past participle outside edged)

outside edges (present singular third-person)
outside edging (participle present)
outside edged (participle past)
outside edged (past)

(cricket) To hit the ball with the outside edge of the bat.


umpire

From a Middle English rebracketing of a noumpere as an oumpere, from Old French nonper (“odd number, not even (as a tie-breaking arbitrator)”), from non (“not”) + per (“equal”), from Latin par (“equal”). Doublet of nonpareil.

съдия

an official who oversees a game or match

An official who presides over a sports match.

(cricket) One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match.

The umpire called the pitch a strike.

(baseball) One of the officials who preside over a baseball game.

The umpire must keep on his toes as the play often occurs around him.

(American football) The official who stands behind the line on the defensive side or next to the referee on the offensive side.

(curling) The official who presides over a curling game.


tailender

tailenders (plural)
tail-ender (alternative)

The Bushrangers moved a step closer to securing a berth in the final when tailenders Damien Wright and Clint McKay posted a century stand on day two, which gave the Vics a first-innings 400.

2009 January 31, Michael Horan, “Andrew McDonald strikes early for Victoria”, in Herald Sun:

(cricket) One of the last four or five batsmen in the batting order, normally bowlers with limited batting ability; a member of the tail.


Test match

(cricket) A five-day first class match between sides representing the official Test nations.


Test nation

(cricket) Any of the officially recognised nations who play Test cricket: Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the West Indies, and Zimbabwe.


first class match

en-noun

first class match (plural first class matches)

(cricket) A three- or five-day cricket match, with two innings per side, played under a set of conditions specified and officially recognised by an official governing body of cricket.


West Indies

From west + Indies. From being lands called the Indies, of the West. From being mistaken for the East Indies (aka, the Indies).

(cricket) A Federation of Caribbean states which, together with Guyana, play Test matches as if they were a single nation.


wicket

From Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wiket, from Old Norse (specifically, Old East Norse) víkjas, diminutive of vik. Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same Old Norse source.

(cricket) One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps and two bails; the target for the bowler, defended by the batsman.

paaltjies

cricket: wooden structure at each end of the pit

(cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.

(cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together.

(cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.

pesä

cricket: area around the stumps where the batsmen stand


chuck

From earlier chock, likely imitative, but perhaps also from Middle English chokken (“to thrust, pierce, cram”), from Picard Old French chuquier (“to collide, strike”, intransitive verb), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to bump, shake”). Doublet of shock and shuck.

der

(cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.


chuck

en-verb

chuck (third-person singular simple present chucks, present participle chucking, simple past and past participle chucked)

chucks (present singular third-person)
chucking (participle present)
chucked (participle past)
chucked (past)
chock (alternative)

(intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.


howzat

how's that (alternative)
owzat (alternative)
owzthat (alternative)

(cricket) The cry used by members of the fielding team to make an appeal to the umpire.


howzat

howzats (plural)
how's that (alternative)
owzat (alternative)
owzthat (alternative)

(cricket) An instance of this cry in order to make an appeal to the umpire.


bye

Variant form of by, from Old English bī (“being near”).

'bye' may be longer than 'bi, by and buy' for some speakers

(cricket) An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.


pistol

Probably from Middle French pistole, or via Middle English pistolet, from Middle French pistolet (“small firearm or small dagger”).
The origin is unclear.
If via German to Romance probably from Middle High German forms like pischulle from Czech píšťala (“firearm”, literally “tube, pipe”), from Proto-Slavic *piščalь, from *piskati, *piščati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pīṣk-.
Alternatively, if from Romance to German, from or related to Italian pistolese (“short dagger”), from Italian Pistoia (“a Tuscan town noted for its gunsmithing”).

der

(American football) An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, but closer than in a shotgun formation, with a running back lined up behind him.


bowler

(cricket) A player selected mainly for their bowling ability.

syöttäjä

cricket: player selected mainly for his bowling ability


batting average

en-noun

batting average (plural batting averages)

(cricket) A statistical estimation of the scoring ability of a batsman, equal to the total number of runs scored divided by the number of times out.

Jones has a .279 batting average.

(baseball) A statistical estimation of the hitting ability of a batter, equal to the number of hits divided by the number of official at-bats. Normally expressed as a real number instead of an average despite the name.


batting order

(cricket, baseball, softball) The sequence in which a side's batsmen go in to bat.


bottom hand

(cricket) With a standard batting grip, the hand placed further down the handle of the bat; the batsman's dominant hand, providing most power to a shot.


bottom order

(cricket) The batsmen, constituting the tail, who bat last - roughly in positions 8 to 11.


bowl out

en-verb

bowl out (third-person singular simple present bowls out, present participle bowling out, simple past and past participle bowled out)

bowls out (present singular third-person)
bowling out (participle present)
bowled out (participle past)
bowled out (past)

(cricket, of a side) To take all the opponents' wickets (in whatever way) and thus end their innings.

(cricket, of a bowler or batsman) To dismiss or be dismissed bowled.


bowled

(cricket) (Dismissed) by the bowled ball hitting and breaking the batsman's wicket.


bowling average

en-noun

bowling average (plural bowling averages)

(cricket) The number of runs conceded divided by the number of wickets taken, used as a statistic.


bowling crease

(cricket) The white line marked at each end of the pitch through the wicket and ending at the return creases. When bowling the bowler's front foot must not cross this line until after the ball has been delivered.


bowling figures

(cricket) A group of statistics listed for each bowler in a single innings:- number of overs bowled, number of maiden overs bowled, number of runs conceded and number of wickets taken.

(cricket) Collectively the bowling figures for all the bowlers who bowled in an innings or match.


bump ball

The umpire believed, mistakenly, that it was a bump ball and Boucher was allowed to remain at the crease.

2005, David Fraser, Cricket and the Law: The Man in White is Always Right, →ISBN, page 302:

(cricket) A ball that bounces off of the pitch immediately after being hit by the bat, and goes up in the air.


bumper

Dutch: bumper

Japanese: バンパー (banpā)

Korean: 범퍼 (beompeo)

Russian: ба́мпер (bámper)

(billiards) A side wall of a pool table.


carry the bat

en-verb

carry the bat (third-person singular simple present carries the bat, present participle carrying the bat, simple past and past participle carried the bat)

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

(cricket) To bat throughout the whole of an innings, being one of the openers and remaining not out when 10 wickets have fallen.


corner

→ German: Corner

→ Japanese: コーナー (kōnā)

From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of cornū (“projecting point, end, horn”). The sense of "angle, corner" in Old French is not found in Latin or other Romance languages. It was possibly calqued from Frankish *hurnijā (“corner, angle”), which is similar to, and derived from *hurn, the Frankish word for "horn". Displaced native cognate Middle English hirn, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“little horn, hook, angle, corner”), whence modern English hirn (“nook, corner”), itself related to horn.

nurkka

business: interest that is sufficient for price manipulation

The pitch was just off the corner, low and outside.

(heading) Relating to the playing field.

(baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.

There are runners on the corners with just one out.

Relating to the playing field.
First base or third base.

Relating to the playing field.
A corner kick.

Relating to the playing field.
A cornerback.


double double

double doubles (plural)
double-double (alternative)

Norwegian Bokmål: dobbel-dobbel

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

(coffee): Used by the Tim Hortons restaurant chain.

The center had 11 assists and 10 blocks tonight for a very unusual double double.

Steven Adams and Enes Kanter wreaked havoc for Oklahoma City. Kanter came off the bench to score 27 points, block three shots and add 10 rebounds. Adams had a double-double, too, with 14 points and 10 rebounds at center.

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 two of points scored, assists, rebounds, blocks, or steals in a single game.

Nonetheless, the team gave a good accounting of themselves, and freshman Kara Rogers scored a double/double in kills and digs in her first collegiate game.

2012, Garrett, Burdeshaw, Spearman, Legacy of the Blues: a Century of Athletics at the W, page A-261:

(volleyball) Achieving two kills and two digs by a single player in one game.


caught and bowled

(cricket) Out by being caught by the bowler.


caught behind

(cricket) Out by being caught by the wicketkeeper.


caught behind

(cricket) An instance of being out by being caught behind the wicket by the wicketkeeper.


miss

Verb from Middle English missen, from Old English missan (“to miss, escape the notice of a person”), from Proto-West Germanic *missijan, from Proto-Germanic *missijaną (“to miss, go wrong, fail”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to change, exchange, trade”). Cognate with West Frisian misse (“to miss”), Dutch missen (“to miss”), German missen (“to miss”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish miste (“to lose”), Swedish missa (“to miss”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic missa (“to lose”).
Noun from Middle English misse, mis, from Old English miss (“loss, absence”), from Proto-West Germanic *miss, from Proto-Germanic *miss- (“loss”). Cognate with Scots miss (“a loss, want, cause of grief or mourning”), Middle High German misse, mis (“lack, missing, absence”), Icelandic missir (“loss”). Related also to Scots mis (“wrongdoing, sin, guilt”), Dutch mis (“misdeed, wrongdoing, mistake”), Middle Low German misse (“sin, wrong”).

cog

(snooker) A foul shot that fails to hit the target ball, where the player has, in the referee's judgement, not made every effort to play a legal shot; in addition to conceding points for the foul, the player can be made to play the shot again.


change of innings

en-noun

change of innings (plural changes of innings)

(cricket) The ten-minute interval between one side's innings ending and the other side's beginning.


chucker

(cricket) A bowler who throws or chucks the ball rather than bowling it.


clean bowl

en-verb

clean bowl (third-person singular simple present clean bowls, present participle clean bowling, simple past and past participle clean bowled)

clean bowls (present singular third-person)
clean bowling (participle present)
clean bowled (participle past)
clean bowled (past)

clean (“without mistakes or errors”, adverb) + bowl.

(cricket) To bowl a batsman out with the ball hitting neither the bat nor the pads on the way to the stumps.


close the face

close the face (third-person singular simple present closes the face, present participle closing the face, simple past and past participle closed the face)

closes the face (present singular third-person)
closing the face (participle present)
closed the face (participle past)
closed the face (past)

(idiomatic, cricket) To turn the face of the bat inwards, in order to hit the ball to the leg side.


strip

Brill Publishers
en:strip (disambiguation)

From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe, of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps derived from a lost strong verb Proto-Germanic *strīpaną, with no clear cognates outside of Germanic except for Irish sríab (“line, stripe”).

(UK, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.


come out

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

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

Nigerian Pidgin: komot

Sranan Tongo: komoto

(cricket, of a batsman) To walk onto the field at the beginning of an innings.


cordon

From Middle English cordon, from Middle French cordon, from Old French cordon, diminutive of corde. More at cord.

(cricket) The arc of fielders on the off side, behind the batsman: the slips and gully. [from 20th c.]


corridor of uncertainty

en-noun

corridor of uncertainty (plural corridors of uncertainty)

(cricket) The area near the batsman's off stump where, if a ball passes, the batsman is unsure whether to play it (and risk an edge) or leave it (and risk being bowled).


cover drive

(cricket) A type of shot played by the batsman bringing the bat down vertically and hitting the ball along the ground in the direction of cover.


cover drive

en-verb

cover drive (third-person singular simple present cover drives, present participle cover driving, simple past cover drove, past participle cover driven)

cover drives (present singular third-person)
cover driving (participle present)
cover drove (past)
cover driven (participle past)

(intransitive, cricket) To play a cover drive shot.


cover point

(cricket, lacrosse) a fielding position between cover and point, about 15° forward of square; a fielder in this position.


covers

(cricket) The area of the field near cover and extra cover.


cow corner

en-noun

cow corner (countable and uncountable, plural cow corners)

(cricket, slang) A region of the field, roughly between deep midwicket and long on.


cross bat

(cricket) The bat, when swung in a horizontal arc.


cross bat

(cricket) Of a shot: played with a cross bat.


cutter

From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er.

(cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.


danger area

(cricket) A rectangular protected area of the pitch on which bowlers may not run in their follow through so as to avoid damage.


dead ball

(ball games) The ball when dead and out of play.


dead bat

(cricket) The bat when held with a light grip such that it gives when the ball strikes it, and the ball loses momentum and falls to the ground.


dead bat

en-verb

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

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

2022, Amit Sinha, Joy Bhattacharjya, Do Different: The Untold Dhoni
Known for his innovative and unpredictable strokeplay, Dhoni had dead-batted this doosra straight back to the bowler.

(transitive, cricket) To play (the ball) with a dead bat.


deep cover

(cricket) a fielding position on the off side, about 30° forward of square and near the boundary; a fielder in that position.


deep midwicket

(cricket) A fielding position on the leg side, about 30° forward of square and near the boundary; a fielder in that position.


deep point

Buttler was the more fluent, scooping and driving, but when he was caught at deep point for 59, England still needed 46 from 31 balls.

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

(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, square of the batsman's wicket and near the boundary


deep square leg

en-noun

deep square leg (countable and uncountable, plural deep square legs)

(cricket) A fielding position on the leg side, square of the batsman's wicket; a fielder in that position.


square leg

square leg (countable and uncountable, plural square legs)

(cricket) A fielding position on the leg side, square of the batsman's wicket, between leg gully and midwicket; a fielder in that position.


square leg umpire

square leg umpire (plural square leg umpires)

(cricket) The umpire who stands at or near square leg to rule on decisions at the batsman's end of the wicket.


barn door

barn doors (plural)
barndoor (alternative)
barn-door (alternative)

(cricket) A player who blocks every ball.


shank

en-verb

shank (third-person singular simple present shanks, present participle shanking, simple past and past participle shanked)

shanks (present singular third-person)
shanking (participle present)
shanked (participle past)
shanked (past)

From Middle English schanke, from Old English sċanca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankō, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (compare West Frisian skonk, Low German Schanke, German Schenkel (“shank, leg”), Danish skank, Norwegian skank, Swedish skänkel), from *skankaz (compare Old Norse skakkr (“wry, crooked”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (compare Middle Irish scingim (“I spring”), Ancient Greek σκάζω (skázō, “to limp”).

Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.

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

(transitive, chiefly tennis, soccer, gridiron football) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.


air raid

(American football) A passing-heavy offensive scheme based on a shotgun formation with four wide receivers and a single running back.


did not bat

Coordinate term: not out

(cricket) Denotes a player who did not bat in an innings played by their side.


defensive

en-adj

defensive (comparative more defensive, superlative most defensive)

more defensive (comparative)
most defensive (superlative)

From Middle French défensif. Morphologically defense + -ive.

(cricket) Of a bowling or fielding tactic designed to prevent the other side from scoring runs; of a batting tactic designed to prevent being out.


defensive field

en-noun

defensive field (plural defensive fields)

(cricket) A field set with fielders in positions designed to prevent runs rather than take wickets.


dismiss

en-verb

dismiss (third-person singular simple present dismisses, present participle dismissing, simple past and past participle dismissed)

dismisses (present singular third-person)
dismissing (participle present)
dismissed (participle past)
dismissed (past)

Middle English, from Latin dimissus (“sent away, dismissed, banished”), perfect passive participle of dīmittō (“send away, dismiss”), from dis- + mittere (“to send”).

der

He was dismissed for 99 runs.

(transitive, cricket) To get a batsman out.

Kalinic later saw red for a rash tackle on Paul Scharner before Gabriel Tamas was dismissed for bringing down Diouf.

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

(transitive, sports, soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off.


dismissal

en-noun

dismissal (countable and uncountable, plural dismissals)

From dismiss + -al. A nineteenth-century coinage (modelled on committal etc.), replacing the regular form dismission.

(cricket) The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.


dot ball

Such a ball is recorded in the scorebook using a dot.

(cricket) A ball off which no runs are scored.


draw stumps

en-verb

draw stumps (third-person singular simple present draws stumps, present participle drawing stumps, simple past drew stumps, past participle drawn stumps)

draws stumps (present singular third-person)
drawing stumps (participle present)
drew stumps (past)
drawn stumps (participle past)

From the game of cricket, where a day's play is terminated by the umpire drawing the stumps out of the ground.

(cricket, of the umpires) To declare an end to the day's play, and remove the bails and sometimes the stumps.


drinks

(cricket) A short break in play to allow the players to have a drink, and for quick repairs to be made to equipment or the pitch.


Duckworth-Lewis method

Devised by two English statisticians, Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis.

The Duckworth-Lewis method of resolving rain-affected games has divided the cricketing fraternity into those who do not understand it and those who pretend they do. Rumour has it that it involves calculus, astrology, quantum mechanics and the use of dice. Either way teams get screwed.

2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 195:

(cricket) A mathematical algorithm for generating revised target scores for the side batting second in a rain-affected one-day match.


clearing

en-noun

clearing (countable and uncountable, plural clearings)

(soccer) The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it.


FA

Football Association
w:Football Association

(soccer) Initialism of Football Association, especially the English Football Association. See also Scottish FA and Welsh FA.


economy rate

(cricket) A bowler's statistic, being the average number of runs conceded per over.


extra cover

(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, about 45° forward of square, between cover and mid off.


innings

innings (plural innings or (rare) inningses)

innings (plural)
inningses (plural rare)

From the old verb inn (“to house corn”).

(cricket) One side's (from when the first player begins to bat, until the last player is out) or individual player's turn to bat or the runs scored during those durations.


fielder

From Middle English feldere (“one who works in the field; rustic”), from Old English feldeware (“field-dweller”), equivalent to field + -er. The baseball sense is from 1832.

inh

(baseball, softball) A defensive player in the field.


fielder

(cricket) A player of the fielding side, whose task is to gather the ball after the batsman has hit it, to catch the batsman out, or to prevent him from scoring.


fall of wicket

The second fall of wicket was 250 runs.

(cricket) The side's total score when a particular batsman was out.


farm the strike

en-verb

farm the strike (third-person singular simple present farms the strike, present participle farming the strike, simple past and past participle farmed the strike)

farms the strike (present singular third-person)
farming the strike (participle present)
farmed the strike (participle past)
farmed the strike (past)

(cricket) To deliberately either score runs or decline to score runs so as to allow the best batsman to face the majority of the balls as the striker.


fast bowler

(cricket) A bowler who specialises in bowling the ball fast in cricket; as opposed to a spin bowler.


snicker

(cricket, rare) A player who snicks the ball.


inside out

In the sense thoroughly, an asyndetic clipping of inside and out.

He hit the ball inside out in an ugly manner, but scored a four.

(cricket) Describes the hitting of a ball that pitched outside of leg stump to the off side of the field.


haul

From Middle English hālen, hailen, haulen, halien (“to drag, pull; to draw up”), from Old French haler (“to haul, pull”), from Frankish *halōn (“to drag, fetch, haul”) or Middle Dutch halen (“to drag, fetch, haul”), possibly merging with Old English *halian (“to haul, drag”); all from Proto-Germanic *halōną, *halēną, *hulōną (“to call, fetch, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”). The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
The word is cognate with Danish hale (“to haul”), Middle Dutch halen (“to draw, fetch, haul”), Dutch halen (“to fetch, bring, haul”), Old Frisian halia, Saterland Frisian halen (“to draw, haul, pull”), Low German halen (“to draw, pull”), Old High German halôn, holôn, German holen (“to fetch, get”), Norwegian hale (“to haul”), Old Saxon halôn (“to fetch, get”), Swedish hala (“to hale, haul, pull, tug”), and related to Old English ġeholian (“to get, obtain”).

cog

Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'.

2020 October 23, “What is a brace in soccer?”, in Goal:

(British, soccer) Four goals scored by one player in a game.


field restriction

en-noun

field restriction (plural field restrictions)

(cricket) A rule governing the placement of fielders (within an oval drawn on the pitch) at certain times during the innings of a one-day match.


assist

From Middle English assisten, from Old French assister (“to assist, to attend”), from Latin assistō (“stand at, bestand”, verb).

der

Özil has 16 assists in the Premier League and three goals; he has two more goals in the Champions League. On Monday, he took Bournemouth apart in the 2-0 win at the Emirates Stadium, setting up the first for Gabriel and scoring the second himself.

2016 January 1, David Hytner, “Mesut Özil has Arsenal daring to dream of Premier League glory”, in The Guardian:

(sports) The act of helping another player score points or goals

(soccer) A decisive pass made to the goal scorer

асистенция

statistical recognition of making a pass

assist

(soccer): a pass that is decisive in scoring a goal

He had two assists in the game.

(baseball) A defensive play, allowing a teammate to record a putout.


zone

→ Korean: 존 (jon)

→ Punjabi: ਜ਼ੋਨ (zon)

From Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).

That pitch was low and away, just outside the zone.

The defender playing at the top of the zone is nine to fourteen metres out from the goal line.

1974, Franko Blazic with Zorko Soric, Team Handball, page 31:

(handball) A semicircular area in front of each goal.

(basketball, American football) A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.


pickle

en-noun

pickle (countable and uncountable, plural pickles)

→ Dutch: pickles

→ French: pickles

→ Irish: picil

→ Korean: 피클 (pikeul)

→ Portuguese: picles

→ Spanish: pickles, picle

→ Welsh: picil

From Middle English pikel (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”), borrowed from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pekel (“brine”). Cognate with Scots pikkill (“salt liquor, brine”), Saterland Frisian Piekele (“pickle, brine”), Dutch pekel (“pickle, brine”), Low German pekel, peckel, pickel, bickel (“pickle, brine”), German Pökel (“pickle, brine”).

cog

Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.


howitzer

Borrowed from Dutch houwitser, from German Haubitze, from Middle High German haufniz, from Czech houfnice, which was derived from houf (“flock, crowd”) + -nice. The Czech noun houf comes from Middle High German hufe (“heap”), from Old High German hūfo.

Belgium took a little while to catch Scotland with the first of the howitzer blows, but when the first one landed there was a certainty of more. Many more.

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

(sports, rugby, ice hockey) A powerfully hit shot.


scrum

French: scrum

Either a back-formation from or an apocopic form of scrummage, a variant of scrimmage.

en:all the forwards joined together in an organised way

(rugby) In rugby union or rugby league, all the forwards joined together in an organised way.

uztartze

(rugby) all the forwards joined together in an organised way


scrum

en-verb

scrum (third-person singular simple present scrums, present participle scrumming, simple past and past participle scrummed)

scrums (present singular third-person)
scrumming (participle present)
scrummed (participle past)
scrummed (past)


session

→ Japanese: セッション (sesshon)

→ Korean: 세션 (sesyeon)

→ Scottish Gaelic: seisean

From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).

(cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.


tweaker

From tweak + -er; the drug addict sense derives from the slang term tweak for methamphetamines, in reference to the punding behavior of addicts.


ECB

England and Wales Cricket Board
w:England and Wales Cricket Board

(cricket) Initialism of England and Wales Cricket Board, the governing body for the sport in England and Wales.


crank

From Dutch or Low German krank, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *krank, from Proto-Germanic *krangaz, *krankaz (“bent; weak”). Cognate with Scots crank, krank, German krank (“sick”).

(archaic, baseball, slang, 1800s) A baseball fan.


fifth slip

(cricket) The slip fielding position beyond the fourth slip.


fine leg

en-noun

fine leg (countable and uncountable, plural fine legs)

(cricket, uncountable) A fielding position on the leg side, behind square and near the boundary.

(cricket, countable) The fielder in that position.


finger spin

left arm orthodox spin
left arm orthodox spin

(cricket) A style of bowling in which the bowler imparts spin to the ball by running his fingers down its side as he releases it; off spin for a right handed bowler and left arm orthodox spin for a left-handed one.


first class

(cricket) Of or relating to a first class match.

első osztályú

cricket: relating to a first class match


first session

(cricket) The session of a day's play between start of play and lunch.


first slip

(cricket) The slip fielding position closest to the wicket keeper


MLS

Coordinate term: MLB

Major League Soccer
w:Major League Soccer

(soccer, US) Initialism of Major League Soccer, the top league of men's soccer in the US.


WS

WS (countable and uncountable, plural WSs)

(baseball) Initialism of World Series, a best of seven game series played annually to determine the championship of United States professional baseball.


five-for

(cricket) The feat of a bowler taking five wickets in one innings


follow on

en-verb

follow on (third-person singular simple present follows on, present participle following on, simple past and past participle followed on)

follows on (present singular third-person)
following on (participle present)
followed on (participle past)
followed on (past)
follow-on (alternative)

(cricket, of a team) To bat their second innings immediately after their first innings.


fourth slip

(cricket) A fielding position to the off side of the third slip.


French cut

(cricket) A batsman's shot in which the ball deflects off the inside edge of the bat and travels fine down the leg side behind the batsman and often travels to the boundary.


full toss

(cricket) A ball that does not bounce on the pitch before reaching the batsman.


good length

(cricket) The area on a pitch considered to be the best place to pitch the ball in order to either get the batter out, or restrict them from scoring; the length at which the ball bounces just too far away for it to be comfortably played either on the front foot or the back foot.


grubber

England had an early opportunity with a line-out deep in French territory after a clever grubber from Foden only for Lionel Nallet to burgle back possession, and they then tore into France again as Alexis Palisson was smashed backwards after taking a garryowen and Manu Tuilagi thundered into Morgan Parra.

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

Take that brilliant backline move off a scrum when Kolbe came off his left wing to put in a neat grubber for Arendse on the right wing to almost round the defense in the corner.

2023 October 28, Leighton Koopman, “YES!!! The Springboks beat the All Blacks to win another Rugby World Cup title”, in Independent Online:

(rugby) An attacking short-distance kick in behind the defence in which the ball is bounced along the ground, using the uneven bounce of the ball to make it difficult for the defence to retrieve.

(cricket) A ball that bounces unusually low such that it is difficult for the batsman to hit properly.


gully

→ French: gollé

→ German: Gully

Origin uncertain. Possibly from a variant of Middle English golet (“esophagus, gullet”), from Old French goulet, from Latin gula (“throat”). Shift in meaning in Middle English to "water channel, ravine" may have been influenced by Middle English gylle, gille, galle (“deep narrow valley, ravine”); see gill.
Alternatively, from a diminutive of dialectal gull (“fissue, chasm”) + -y (diminutive suffix). See gull, gullick.

unc

uncertain

inh

(cricket) A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position


Hawk-Eye

From hawk + eye, a reference to the bird of prey's noted eyesight.

(cricket, tennis) A system, using six static television cameras and sophisticated computing, to track the path of the ball in flight.


conversion

en-noun

conversion (countable and uncountable, plural conversions)

From Middle English conversion, conversioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conversion, from Latin conversiō, from convertō.

обръщане

the act of having converted something or someone

המרת דת

to replace one religious faith with another

(rugby) A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.

(American football) An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.


skip

Late Middle English skipper, borrowed from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schipper (“captain”), earlier "seaman", from schip (“ship”).

(curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.


Bunsen

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(cricket, informal, rhyming slang) A turner (a pitch on which the ball turns easily).


grand slam

(baseball) The hitting of a home run with the bases loaded.

gran eslam

(baseball) a home run with the bases loaded


Grand Slam

(British, soccer) winning in each of the three UEFA cups - UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and Cup Winners' Cup (defunct).

(rugby) Victory in every game in the Six Nations competition between England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France and Italy

(rugby) Victory by a Southern Hemisphere national team over all of the Home Nations—England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland—in a single tour

(Philippines, basketball) winning in each of the three Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) tournaments, each called locally a conference, in a season; see Grand Slam (PBA) on Wikipedia.


half volley

half volleys (plural)
half-volley (alternative)

(cricket) A delivery that bounces just short of the blockhole


volley

→ Cantonese: 窩利 /窝利 (wo¹ lei⁶⁻²)

→ German: Volley

→ Polish: wolej

→ Portuguese: vólei

From Middle French volée (“flight”), from Vulgar Latin volta, from Late Latin volatus.

(cricket) A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.


handled the ball

(cricket) Describing a way of getting out in which the batsman deliberately touches the ball with the hand not holding the bat.


hat trick

hat tricks (plural)
hattrick (alternative)
hat-trick (alternative)

From hat + trick (“element of a magician’s or variety entertainer’s act; entertaining and difficult physical action”, noun). Sense 2 (“achievement of a bowler taking three wickets in three consecutive balls”)—the original sporting sense—refers to the commemorative hat formerly given as a prize to the bowler by his club.

هاتريك

three achievements in a single game, competition, season, etc.

שלושער m (shloshá'ar, literally “three-gate or goal”)

གསུམ་སྦྲགས (gsum sbrags, literally “pack-of-three”)

Jones got a hat trick yesterday. Let’s see if he can do better today.

(cricket) An achievement of a bowler taking three wickets in three consecutive balls.

(by extension, sports) Three achievements in a single game, competition, season, etc., such as three consecutive wins.

(specifically, baseball, ironic) The act of striking out three times in a game.

In ice hockey, it’s customary for fans to throw their hats on to the rink after a player scores a hat trick.

(specifically, ice hockey, soccer) Three goals scored by one player in a game.

(specifically, rugby) Three tries scored by one player in a game.

Ever heard of a Gordie Howe hat trick? It comprises a goal, an assist, and a fighting major penalty.

The car salesman came home with front-row seats to the weekend game after achieving a hat trick by selling three cars that day.

And with the debut of his new series Hyperion Bay in 1998, [Joseph] Dougherty accomplished the rare "hat trick" in television: the pilot was written, executive-produced, and codirected by Dougherty.

2002, Douglas Heil, “From Office Temp to ‘Hat Trick’ Showrunner: Interview with Joseph Dougherty”, in Prime Time Authorship: Works about and by Three TV Dramatists (The Television Series), Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 129:

Three murders in less than two weeks. That's a hat trick.

2015, Les Roberts, “Milan”, in The Ashtabula Hat Trick (A Milan Jacovich/Kevin O’Bannion Mystery), Cleveland, Oh.: Gray & Company, →ISBN, page 51:

In these modern cities, anti-infection measures had to be imposed from the top down, by a central authority. To pull this off, the authority required three things: the ability to identify cases in a timely fashion, and so determine the infection's direction of travel; an understanding of how the disease spread (by water? air? insect vector?), and hence the measures that were likely to block it; and some means of ensuring compliance with those measures. When all three of these ingredients – which we'll describe in more detail in the following sections – were in place, containment could be extremely effective, but a hat-trick was rare.

2017 May, Laura Spinney, “Chalking Doors with Crosses”, in Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: PublicAffairs, published September 2017, →ISBN, part 4 (The Survival Instinct), page 91:

(by extension, generally) Three achievements or incidents that occur together, usually within a certain period of time.

hattutemppu

three achievements or incidents that occur together, usually within a certain period of time


Viking

Borrowed from Old Norse víkingr (“Viking”). Already in Old English as wīċing and Old Frisian wītsing, but assumed extinct in Middle English and borrowed anew in the 19th century; any survivals in dialect through the Middle Ages are unknown.
Old Norse víkingr itself is from Old Norse vík (“inlet, cove, fjord”) + -ingr (“one belonging to, one who frequents”) (the -r is the nominative desinence). Thus, “one from or who frequents the sea’s inlets”.
The Old English and Anglo-Frisian form, existing since at least the eighth century, could also have been derived from or influenced by Old English wīc (“camp”), on account of the temporary encampments which were often a prominent feature of the Vikings’ raids.
Others proposals were made, like e.g. deriving víkingr from the root related to the verb víkja or deriving both English and Old Norse words to *wīkingaz related to víkja or wīc.

أُرْدَمَانِيّ

One of the Scandinavian seafaring warriors

(American football) A player on the Minnesota Vikings NFL team.


backhander

From backhand + -er (patient suffix) or -er (agent noun suffix).

(racquet sports) A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.

She's a terrific backhander.

(racquet sports) A player who plays a backhand shot.


heavy roller

Thommo pointed out on the radio that under normal circumstances the wicket retains moisture beneath a hard surface, and this water is brought to the surface by the heavy roller and causes problems on the first day of a game.

2003, David Mortimer, Classic Cricket Clangers, page 179:

(cricket) The heavier of the rollers used for flattening the pitch between innings.


hit the ball twice

head

hit the ball twice (phrasal noun, uncountable)

34. Hit the ball twice

1992, Tony Pocock, Official Rules of Sports & Games, 1992-93, page 392:

Law 34 (Hit the ball twice) ...

2003, Marylebone Cricket Club, The official laws of cricket: Law 34 (Hit the ball twice) [online version], archived from the original on 2009-02-20:

5 Hit the ball twice - lf a striker sees that the ball, which has just been hit, is going to be caught, it would be unfair to hit the ball for a second time.

2006, Julia Hickey, Understanding Cricket:

(cricket) A rule ("law" in cricket) which when invoked results in the dismissal of a batsman (out), whereby the batsman has deliberately hit the ball with his bat a second time for a reason other than to protect his wicket.


hit wicket

(cricket) Describing a method of dismissal of a batsman (out) in which the batsman hits his own wicket either with the bat or his body, usually while attempting to play the ball.


overlap

From over- + lap.
Cognate with Dutch overlap.

(rugby) a situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may exploit the overlap by using their superior numbers to break the opposition's defensive line. If attackers outnumber defenders by more than one player this is often termed a two man overlap or three man overlap, etc. If the attacking side fails to break through usually due to poor execution, they are said to waste an overlap.


turner

From Middle English turner, torner, tornere, turnere, turnare, equivalent to turn + -er. Also from Middle English turnour, tornour, tournour, turnoure, from Old French tornour, tourneour, tourneur, tornëor (“one who fashions something by turning”).

(cricket) A very dry pitch on which the ball will turn with ease.


crotch

Of disputed origin; two possibilities seem likely:
* From Middle English croche, variant of crucche (“crutch”); compare crook.
* From Middle English croche, variant of crouche (“cross, crozier”).

could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck

(billiards) In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.


inner

outer

antonym(s) of “One who supports remaining in the EU”

From Middle English inner, ynner, ynnere, from Old English innera, comparative of inne (“within”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁en.

wicket-keeping gloves
wicket-keeping gloves

(cricket) A thin glove worn inside batting gloves or wicket-keeping gloves.


bottom of the ninth

Bottom, from the home team's location below visitors on the scoreboard; ninth from the number of innings in a baseball game.

Hitting a home run with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth let the home team finish ahead of the visitors.

(baseball) The second part of the ninth and final inning; the end of the game.


pavilion

From Middle English pavilloun, from Anglo-Norman pavilloun, from Latin pāpiliōnem, form of pāpiliō (“butterfly, moth”) (due to resemblance of tent to a butterfly’s wings), of unknown origin. Doublet of papillon.
Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.

(cricket) The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.


fumble

fumbles (plural)
famble (alternative)
fimble (alternative)

Late Middle English, from Low German fummeln, fommeln, fammeln (German fummeln), or Dutch fommelen.
Or, perhaps from a Scandinavian/North Germanic source; compare related Old Norse fálma, Icelandic fálma, Danish fumle, especially Swedish fumla, famla, with variants: fumbla (“fumble”), fambla (“famble”), related to Swedish fim, fem (Danish fim, Norwegian fim, feima), with a root meaning of “cover, coating of foam or figuratively ditto”, cognate to German Feim (“surf”) and English foam. Possibly has (a more or less unconscious) connection to fathom (via Old Norse faðmr, Swedish famn) in the sense of “embrace”.
The ultimate origin for either could perhaps be imitative of fumbling. Or, from Proto-Indo-European *pal- (“to shake, swing”), see also Latin palpo (“I pat, touch softly”), and possibly Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan (“to feel”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

(sports, American football, Canadian football) A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident.


closer

From Middle English closere, equivalent to close (verb) + -er.

They brought their closer in for the ninth.

(baseball) A relief pitcher who specializes in getting the last three outs of the game.


opener

オープナー

baseball pitcher who starts the game, but is planned to have a short outing

(cricket) A batsman or bowler who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings.

pelinavaaja

The Rays debuted the opener—in which a reliever starts the game and throws anywhere from one to three innings, then gives way to a new pitcher, who will usually throw three to five as essentially a second starter—on May 19 against the Angels, using veteran righty Sergio Romo to pitch the first.

2018 August 23, Jon Tayler, “How the Tampa Bay Rays Reinvented the Concept of Starting Pitching”, in Sports Illustrated:

(baseball) A pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs of a game before being replaced, either by a long reliever or a pitcher who would normally start.


sweeper

From Middle English swepere, swepare, equivalent to sweep + -er. Cognate with Middle Low German swēpære, swēper (“broom for sweeping up debris”).

(soccer) A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper.

(curling) A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.

(cricket) A batsman who plays sweep shots.

(cricket) A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position.


keyhole

(basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line; key.


behind the arc

The Nimrods shot an amazingly futile 2-for-45 from behind the arc.

(basketball, informal) Outside the three-point line.


traveling

travelings (plural)
travelling (alternative)

(basketball) A violation committed by progressing while holding the ball instead of dribbling it.


double dribble

(basketball) A violation committed by dribbling for a second time without giving up possession of the ball.


foul out

A foul out was recorded on the scorecard.

His foul out sat poorly with the crowd.

(basketball) An instance of fouling out.


foul out

en-verb

foul out (third-person singular simple present fouls out, present participle fouling out, simple past and past participle fouled out)

fouls out (present singular third-person)
fouling out (participle present)
fouled out (participle past)
fouled out (past)

He fouled out to lead off the third.

(baseball) To become out by hitting a foul ball which is caught.

The center has fouled out with only two points.

(basketball) To be disqualified from further play for having committed too many fouls.


layup

(basketball) A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.


reverse layup

(basketball) A running in which the shooter dives under the basket and shoots the ball straight away from the basket.


lay-in

(basketball) A shot in which the ball is tossed directly into the basket from near the rim.


scoop shot

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(basketball) A shot taken underhanded from an unusually low position (as though scooping up the ball).


held ball

(basketball) A situation in which players of opposing teams both hold the ball, with neither clearly possessing it outright.


crossover dribble

en-noun

crossover dribble (plural crossover dribbles)

(basketball) A maneuver in which a dribbling player rapidly switches the ball from one side to the other in order to move around a defender.

Coach's Clipboard Video Clips of basketball maneuvers


knockdown

knockdown (countable and uncountable, plural knockdowns)

Pires, a three-time Cup winner with Arsenal who scored the Gunners' winner against Southampton in the 2003 final, has been a largely peripheral figure at Villa Park since joining in November - but the 37-year-old rolled back the years with a fine finish from Delfouneso's knockdown.

2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Aston Villa 3 - 1 Blackburn”, in BBC:

(soccer) a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.


waft

From Middle English waften, of uncertain origin. Possibly from unattested Old English *wafettan, from wafian (“to wave”) + -ettan, or perhaps borrowed from Middle Dutch wachten (“to guard, provide for”).
See also German wabern (“to waft”), Faroese veiftra (“to wave”) and Icelandic váfa (“to fluctuate, waver, doubt”).

der

(cricket, slang) A loose noncommittal shot, usually played to a ball pitched short of length and well wide of the off stump.


stunt

→ Danish: stunt

→ German: Stunt

→ Norwegian Bokmål: stunt

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: stunt

Unknown. Compare Middle Low German stunt (“a shoulder grip with which you throw someone on their back”), Middle English stunt (“foolish; stupid”).

cog

(American football) A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.


choke

en-verb

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

chokes (present singular third-person)
choking (participle present)
choked (participle past)
choked (past)
choak (alternative)
choake (alternative)
chock (alternative)

From Middle English choken (also cheken), from earlier acheken, from Old English āċēocian (“to choke”), probably derived from Old English ċēoce, ċēace (“jaw, cheek”), see cheek. Cognate with Icelandic kok (“throat”), koka (“to gulp”). See also achoke.

Take a grip with your right hand, slightly choked down from your normal grip.

2014, Roger Fredericks, The Flexible Golf Swing, page 108:

(golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.


reject

reject (third-person singular simple present rejects, present participle rejecting, simple past and past participle rejected)

rejects (present singular third-person)
rejecting (participle present)
rejected (participle past)
rejected (past)

From Late Middle English rejecten, from Latin rēiectus, past participle of reicere (“to throw back”), from re- (“back”) + iacere (“to throw”). Displaced native Old English āweorpan (literally “to throw out”).

ncog

(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.


manhattan

(cricket) a bar chart representing the number of runs scored in each over (supposed to resemble a skyline of skyscrapers).


counter

→ Japanese: カウンター

→ Korean: 카운터 (kaunteo)

→ Malay: kaunter

desc

→ Thai: เคาน์เตอร์ (káo-dtə̂ə)

→ Thai: เคาน์เตอร์ (káo-dtə̂ə)

Inherited from Middle English countour, from Old French conteor (French comptoir), from Medieval Latin computātōrium, from Latin computō, equivalent to count + -er. Doublet of cantore, computer, and kontor.

doublet

[ˈkʰaʊ̯.ɾ̃ɚ]

(curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.


infield

They covered the infield with a tarp when it started to rain.

(baseball) The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base.

camp interior

baseball: The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base.

Jones ran out an infield single.

(baseball) (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.

etukenttä-

baseball: (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.

(cricket) The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.

etukenttä

cricket: The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, etc.


stump

From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump”) or Middle Dutch stomp, from Old Saxon or Old Dutch *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop.

der

(cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.

keppi

cricket: one of the three vertical wooden posts in the wicket


stump

en-verb

stump (third-person singular simple present stumps, present participle stumping, simple past and past participle stumped)

stumps (present singular third-person)
stumping (participle present)
stumped (participle past)
stumped (past)
stump (infinitive)

(transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.

A herd of boys with clamour bowled, / And stumped the wicket.

1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

(transitive, cricket) To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).


pancake

en-noun

pancake (countable and uncountable, plural pancakes)

pancakes (plural)
pan cake (alternative)

→ Cantonese: 班戟 (baan¹ gik¹)

→ Mandarin: 班戟 (bānjǐ)

→ Cebuano: pankeyk

→ French: pancake

→ German: Pancake

desc

→ Hijazi Arabic: بانكيك (bānkēk, pānkēk)

→⇒ Irish: pancóg

→ Japanese: パンケーキ (pankēki)

→⇒ Khmer: នំផេនខេក (num pheenkheek)

→ Korean: 팬케이크 (paenkeikeu)

→ Nauruan: epankeik

→ Portuguese: panqueca, (dated) panqueque, (dated) pancake

→ Russian: панкейк (pankejk)

→ Spanish: (Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay) panqueque, (Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico) pancake, (Venezuela) panqueca

→ Thai: แพนเค้ก (pɛɛn-kéek)

→ Turkish: pankek

→ Azerbaijani: pankek

→ Yoruba: pan̄kéèkì

Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake, equivalent to pan + cake.
Perhaps adapted from Middle Low German pankôke, pannekôke, from Old Saxon *pannakōko (suggested by derivatives Old Saxon pannakōkilo and pannakōkilīn), where the compound is much older; compare Old High German phankuohho (8th century), whence Middle High German phankuoche, German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”); further
Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”).
The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.

(countable, volleyball) A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.


semicircle

(soccer) An arc whose center is the penalty spot, extending from the top of the penalty area.


seventh inning stretch

en-noun

seventh inning stretch (plural seventh inning stretches)

(baseball) A more extended than usual break taken between the top half and the bottom half of the seventh inning.


stumps

England still have a chance of winning tomorrow if they can get India out before stumps today.

(cricket) close of play (when the stumps are pulled out of the ground by the umpires)


farmhand

(baseball) A player in the minor leagues.


willow

willow (countable and uncountable, plural willows)

From Middle English wilwe, welew, variant of wilghe, from Old English welig, from Proto-West Germanic *wilig, from Proto-Germanic *wiligaz, from Proto-Indo-European *welik- (compare (Arcadian) Ancient Greek ἑλίκη (helíkē), Hittite 𒌑𒂖𒆪 (welku, “grass”)), from *wel- (“twist, turn”).

(baseball, slang, 1800s) The baseball bat.


scrum-half

(rugby) player who introduces the ball into a scrum.


lineout

lineouts (plural)
line-out (alternative)

(baseball) An out produced by catching a line drive.


fly-half

Fly-half Holly Aitchison has had a mixed tournament with the boot up until this match, with Mitchell saying in the week he had no concerns over her kicking and being proved correct in Bordeaux.

2024 April 27, Alastair Telfer, “England beat France to seal Grand Slam hat-trick”, in BBC Sport:

(rugby) A rugby player who is normally the first receiver of the ball from the scrum half after a scrum; a half-back.


knock-on

It took until the 33rd minute for England to get on the scoreboard, Wilkinson finally finding his range from out left, but a knock-on from James Haskell from the re-start put his team straight back under pressure.

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

(rugby) A foul in which a player knocks the ball forward, often unintentionally


dangle

en-verb

dangle (third-person singular simple present dangles, present participle dangling, simple past and past participle dangled)

dangles (present singular third-person)
dangling (participle present)
dangled (participle past)
dangled (past)

Uncertain, but likely of North Germanic origin, akin to Danish dingle, dangle, Swedish dangla (“to swing about”), Norwegian dangla, perhaps via North Frisian dangeln; all possibly related to Old Norse dengja (“to hit”).

He dangled around three players and the goalie to score.

(intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.


dangle

That was a sick dangle for a great goal!

(slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.


punt

punt (third-person singular simple present punts, present participle punting, simple past and past participle punted)

punts (present singular third-person)
punting (participle present)
punted (participle past)
punted (past)

Possibly a dialectal variant of bunt. Rugby is the origin of the sports usage of the term.

Australian rules football
Australian rules football

To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance.

(rugby, American football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, soccer, transitive, intransitive) To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground. (This puts the ball farther from the goal across which the opposing team is attempting to score, so improves the chances of the team punting.)

Australian rules football; Gaelic football; Australian rules football; Gaelic football

With five minutes remaining Hennessey was down well to block another Vukcevic shot, while Gunter was smartly in to punt away the dangerous loose ball.

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

(soccer) To kick a bouncing ball far and high.


punt

(rugby, American football, soccer) A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground.


pill

* From Middle English pille (also pillem), a borrowing from Middle Low German pille or Middle Dutch pille (whence Dutch pil), probably from Latin pila, pilula.
* (persuade or convince): Generalized from red pill.

"Strike two!" bawled the umpire. I threw the pill back to Tom with a heart which drummed above the noise of the rooters along the side lines.

Mr. Fisher contributed to the Sox effort when he threw the pill past second baseman Rath after Felsch hit him a comebacker.

2002, John Klima, Pitched Battle: 35 of Baseball's Greatest Duels from the Mound:


sledge

sledge (third-person singular simple present sledges, present participle sledging, simple past and past participle sledged)

sledges (present singular third-person)
sledging (participle present)
sledged (participle past)
sledged (past)

From Sledge (“a surname”), influenced by sledgehammer. First attested in the 1960s in Australian English.
According to Ian Chappell, originated in Adelaide during the 1963/4 or 1964/5 Sheffield Shield season. A cricketer who swore in the presence of a woman was taken to be as subtle as a sledgehammer (meaning unsubtle) and was called “Percy” or “Sledge”, from singer Percy Sledge (whose song When a Man Loves a Woman was a hit at the time). Directing insults or obscenities at the opposition team then became known as sledging.

Batteries of fast bowlers softened batsmen up with short-pitched bowling, while fielders tried to disturb their concentration with a running commentary of insults commonly known as sledging.

1998, Larry Elliott, Daniel E Atkinson, The Age of Insecurity:

Then, all these...government legislators...would be able to totally concentrate on their roles and functions, without being entangled in interparty sledging and squabbles.

2004, Dhanjoo N. Ghista, Socio-Economic Democracy and the World Government: Collective Capitalism, Depovertization, Human Rights, Template for Sustainable Peace:

The 2000 Code of the Laws of Cricket includes new anti-sledging provisions.

2005, David Fraser, Cricket and the Law: The Man in White Is Always Right:

"Bloody hell even their sledging is now shite!!!" he sledged.

2013 November 6, Marina Hyde, “Whatever Shane Warne says, the Ashes sledgers need to raise their game”, in The Guardian:

it would be eccentric to change governments when we're delivering so much and when we have such a vast mandate and when we're actually only a handful of points behind in the polls, even in mid-term, after quite a few months of pretty relentless sledging and when the economic scene is so difficult domestically and internationally.

7 July 2022, Boris Johnson, resignation speech:

(chiefly cricket, Australia) To verbally insult or abuse an opponent in order to distract them (considered unsportsmanlike).


sledge

Now that's what I call a sledge.

1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 173:

(chiefly cricket, Australia) An instance of sledging.


whiff

The noun is possibly:
* partly a variant of Middle English wef, weffe (“bad smell, stench, stink; exhalation; vapour; tendency of something to go bad (?)”) [and other forms], possibly a variant of either:
** waf, waif, waife (“odour, scent”), possibly from waven (“to move to and fro, sway, wave; to stray, wander; to move in a weaving manner; (figuratively) to hesitate, vacillate”), from Old English wafian (“to wave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”); or
** wef (“a blow, stroke”), from weven (“to travel, wander; to move to and fro, flutter, waver; to blow something away, waft; to cause something to move; to fall; to cut deeply; to sever; to give up, yield; to give deference to; to avoid; to afflict, trouble; to beckon, signal”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Old English wefan (“to weave”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”)), or from wǣfan (see bewǣfan, ymbwǣfan); and
* partly onomatopoeic.
Noun sense 6 (“name of a number of flatfish”) is possibly derived from sense 1 (“brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air”), sense 4 (“small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.”), and other such senses.
The verb and adjective are derived from the noun. Verb sense 2.6 (“to catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat”) is possibly derived from sense 1.1 (“to carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air”), sense 2.2 (“to be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air”), and other such senses.
The interjection is derived from noun sense 7.4 (“a sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle”).

дъх

short inhalation or exhalation of breath

(sports, chiefly US, slang) A failure to hit a ball in various sports (for example, golf); a miss.

(baseball) From the batter's perspective: a strike.


whiff

en-verb

whiff (third-person singular simple present whiffs, present participle whiffing, simple past and past participle whiffed)

whiffs (present singular third-person)
whiffing (participle present)
whiffed (participle past)
whiffed (past)

(US, baseball) Of a pitcher: to strike out (a batter); to fan.


batting

en-noun

batting (countable and uncountable, plural battings)

(cricket, baseball) The action of using a bat.


wick

→ Maori: wiki

From Middle English weke, wicke (“wick”), from Old English wēoce (“wick”), from Proto-West Germanic *weukā (“flax bundle, wick”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”).
Compare West Frisian wjok, wjuk (“wing”), Dutch wiek (“wing; propeller, blade; wick”), German Wieche (“wisp; wick”), Swedish veke (“wick”).

cog

(curling) A narrow opening in the field, flanked by other players' stones.

(curling) A shot where the played stone touches a stationary stone just enough that the played stone changes direction.


wick

en-verb

wick (third-person singular simple present wicks, present participle wicking, simple past and past participle wicked)

wicks (present singular third-person)
wicking (participle present)
wicked (participle past)
wicked (past)

(curling) To strike (a stone) obliquely; to strike (a stationary stone) just enough that the played stone changes direction.


yorker

Possibly from 18th- and 19th-century slang phrase "to pull Yorkshire on a person", meaning to trick or deceive them. Compare come Yorkshire over.

(cricket) A ball bowled so as to bounce at or near the batsman's popping crease.


wagon wheel

(cricket) A graphical representation of the cricket field, with lines showing the trajectories of the scoring balls hit by a batsman; singles, fours and sixes are shown in different colours.


wicketkeeper

wicketkeepers (plural)
wicket-keeper (alternative)
wickie (alternative)

England's wicket-keeper in the 50s, he was fearless about standing on the stumps to fastish bowlers[.]

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

The fielder clad in armour who squats behind the batsman should be respected as a specialist and not treated as a dabbler. The wicketkeeper controls the mood around the pitch. His gloves hold most of the catches, his voice accompanies every appeal. He is the factory foreman, responsible for every ball.

2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 210:

(cricket) A player who stands behind the batsman’s wicket ready to catch the ball, or to stump the batsman.

tautopenga

A player positioned behind the batsman ready to catch the ball, or to the batsman.


wicket-keeping gloves

(cricket) protective gloves worn by a wicket keeper to cushion the hands when repeatedly catching balls


wicket maiden

(cricket) A maiden over in which a bowler gets a batsman out.


with the spin

(cricket) hitting the ball in the same direction that it is spinning off the pitch


wrist spin

(cricket) A style of bowling in which the bowler spins the ball by releasing it from the back of the hand, running his/her fingers down the side of the ball as it is released.


wrist spinner

(cricket) A bowler who specializes in wrist spin


finger spinner

(cricket) A bowler who specializes in finger spin


wrong 'un

wrong 'uns (plural)
wrong'un (alternative)


windmill

From Middle English wyndmylne, wyndmylle, equivalent to wind + mill. Cognate with Scots wyndmyln, wyndmyl, Saterland Frisian Wíendmäälne, West Frisian wynmûne, Dutch windmolen, Afrikaans windmeul, Dutch Low Saxon windmölle (Achterhooks), wiendmeule (Drents, Veluws), German Low German Windmöhl, German Windmühle, Danish vindmølle, Norwegian Bokmål vindmølle, Norwegian Nynorsk vindmølle, vindmylne, Swedish vindmölla, Icelandic vindmylla.

(basketball) A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop.

(baseball) A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball.


shaft

From Middle English schaft, from Old English sċeaft, from Proto-West Germanic *skaft, from Proto-Germanic *skaftaz. Cognate with Dutch schacht, German German Schaft, Swedish skaft.

Sarah, if you wear gloves your hands might not slip on your shaft and you can up your game, girl!

(lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.


poster

→ Burmese: ပိုစတာ (puica.ta)

→ Catalan: pòster

→ Catalan: pòster

→ Dutch: poster

→ Finnish: posteri

→ French: poster
→ Turkish: poster

→ German: Poster

→ Hindi: पोस्टर (posṭar)

→ Hungarian: poszter

→ Irish: póstaer

→ Italian: poster

→ Japanese: ポスター (posutā)

→ Korean: 포스터 (poseuteo)

→ Malay: poster

→ Manx: posteyr

→ Persian: پوستر (poster)

→ Polish: poster

→ Portuguese: pôster, póster (Portugal)

→ Romanian: poster

→ Russian: по́стер (póstɛr)

→ Spanish: póster

→ Swedish: poster

→ Tagalog: poster

→ Thai: โปสเตอร์ (bpóos-dtə̂ə))

→ Welsh: poster

(basketball) A dunk over a defending player.


huddle

From Middle English *hudelen, alteration (due to hudels, hidels (“hiding place”), see hiddle) of *huderen, hoderen (“to cover; press together; huddle”), a frequentative form of Middle English huden, hiden (“to hide”), equivalent to hide + -le and/or hide + -er. Compare Low German huderken (“to brood; coddle; nurse; lull children to sleep”).

cog

(American football) A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.


huddle

en-verb

huddle (third-person singular simple present huddles, present participle huddling, simple past and past participle huddled)

huddles (present singular third-person)
huddling (participle present)
huddled (participle past)
huddled (past)

(intransitive, American football) To form a huddle.


unbeaten

From Middle English on bete, unbeten, unibeten; equivalent to un- + beaten; compare Old English ungebeitne (“unhewn”).

He scored an unbeaten century.


glance

glance (third-person singular simple present glances, present participle glancing, simple past and past participle glanced)

glances (present singular third-person)
glancing (participle present)
glanced (participle past)
glanced (past)
glance (infinitive)
glaunce (alternative)

The verb is derived from Late Middle English glenchen (“of a blow: to strike obliquely, glance; of a person: to turn quickly aside, dodge”) [and other forms], a blend of:
* Old French glacier, glachier, glaichier (“to slide; to slip”) (whence also Middle English glacen (“of a blow: to strike obliquely, glance; to glide”)), from glace (“frozen water, ice”) (from Vulgar Latin *glacia, from Latin glaciēs (“ice”), of uncertain origin, + -ier (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs); and
* Old French guenchir, ganchir (“to avoid; to change direction; to elude, evade”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *wankijan (“to move aside; to stagger, sway; to wave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weng- (“to bend”).
The noun is derived from the verb.

nb...

glansen, glence, glench, glens, glanche, glauncen, glaunche

рикоширам

to strike and fly off in an oblique direction to dart aside

lyödä maila vinossa

(cricket) to hit a ball with a bat held in a slanted manner

Doncaster paid the price two minutes later when [Kevin] Doyle sent [Stephen] Hunt away down the left and his pinpoint cross was glanced in by Fletcher for his sixth goal of the season.

2011 January 18, “Wolverhampton 5 – 0 Doncaster”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2023-04-09:

(also figuratively) To cause (something) to move obliquely.

(ball games) To hit (a ball) lightly, causing it to move in another direction.

hipaista

(ball games) to hit (a ball) lightly, causing it to move in another direction

(cricket) To hit (a ball) with a bat held in a slanted manner; also, to play such a stroke against (the bowler).

lyödä maila vinossa

(cricket) to hit (a ball) with a bat held in a slanted manner; to play such a stroke against (the bowler)

(also figuratively) To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.

(cricket) To hit a ball with a bat held in a slanted manner.


glance

en-noun

glance (countable and uncountable, plural glances)

(cricket) A stroke in which the ball is hit with a bat held in a slanted manner.

lyönti maila vinossa

(cricket) stroke in which the ball is hit with a bat held in a slanted manner


bowling

→ Portuguese: bólingue

(cricket) The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.

गोलंदाजी

(cricket) propelling the ball towards the batsman


intercept

en-verb

intercept (third-person singular simple present intercepts, present participle intercepting, simple past and past participle intercepted)

intercepts (present singular third-person)
intercepting (participle present)
intercepted (participle past)
intercepted (past)

Borrowed from Latin interceptum, past participle of intercipiō.

(transitive, sports) To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game.

(transitive, American football) Of a defensive player: to steal a pass thrown by the opposing team, gaining possession of the ball.


walker

→ Irish: válcaeir

→ Persian: واکر (vâker)

From Middle English walkere (“one who walks, traveller”), equivalent to walk + -er.

inh

(cricket) A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.


tackle

en-noun

tackle (countable and uncountable, plural tackles)

From Middle English takel (“gear, apparatus”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German takel (“ship's rigging”), perhaps related to Middle Dutch taken (“to grasp, seize”). Akin to Danish takkel (“tackle”), Swedish tackel (“tackle”). More at take.

der

(rugby, American football, countable) A play where a defender brings the ball carrier to the ground.

placatge

American football, rugby: play where a defender brings the ball carrier to the ground

(American football) An offensive line position between a guard and an end: offensive tackle; a person playing that position.

hyökkäävä linjamies

American football: person playing offensive tackle

(American football) A defensive position between two defensive ends: defensive tackle; a person playing that position.

puolustava linjamies

American football: person playing defensive tackle


tackle

en-verb

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

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

(rugby, American football) To bring a ball carrier to the ground.

placar

rugby, American football: to bring a ball carrier to the ground


batting glove

(cricket) Each of a pair of protective gloves worn by a batsman to prevent damage to the fingers and hands


inswing

(cricket) The swing of a ball through the air in a direction towards the batsman.


inswing

(cricket) Describing a bowler who uses inswing in the ball's flight.