fungo

Uncertain; perhaps from Scots fung (“to fling, throw”).

The fielding coach played fungo with the outfielders to warm them up.

Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter aren’t going to China to […] hit fungoes to wide-eyed Chinese kids.

2007 January 25, Murray Chass, “Yanks Hope to Get a Jump in China”, in New York Times:

(baseball) A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.

He is so strong he could hit it out of the park with a fungo.


fungo

en-verb

fungo (third-person singular simple present fungos, present participle fungoing, simple past and past participle fungoed)

fungos (present singular third-person)
fungoing (participle present)
fungoed (participle past)
fungoed (past)

(baseball) To take part in a fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.


racial

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(gaming) A skill possessed by all characters of a certain race.


MUD

multi-user dungeon
multi-user dungeon#English

(video games, online gaming) Acronym of multi-user dungeon, an interactive online environment in which players may jointly engage in fantasy role-playing games.


shift

en-noun

shift (countable and uncountable, plural shifts)

The noun is from Middle English schyft, shyffte. Cognate with German Schicht (“layer, shift”).
The verb is from Middle English schiften, from Old English sċiftan (“to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise”), from Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną, *skiptijaną, from earlier *skipatjaną (“to organise, put in order”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyb- (“to separate, divide, part”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate, part”). Cognate with Scots schift, skift (“to shift”), West Frisian skifte, skiftsje (“to sort”), Dutch schiften (“to sort, screen, winnow, part”), German schichten (“to stack, layer”), Swedish skifta (“to shift, change, exchange, vary”), Norwegian skifte (“to shift”), Icelandic skipta (“to switch”). See ship.

cog

Teams often use a shift against this lefty.


Bayern

Clipping of Bayern Munich from German Bayern (“Bavaria”) (clipping of Bayern München).

(soccer) Bayern Munich (a German football club based in Munich)

F.C. Bayern Munich
de:F.C. Bayern München


skier

However, when Guha returned, she picked the wrong ball to pull and hit a skier to Charlotte Edwards.

2002, Jeff Green, "New Zealand win tri-series in convincing style", Cricinfo

The second thing I did my best to get out of was the unpleasant position Monty found himself in rather too often in Sri Lanka: standing under a skier in the deep.

2012, Harry Pearson, "There's always a catch – unless it's me or Monty underneath the ball", The Guardian

(cricket) A ball hit high in the air, often leading to a catch.


hike

From English dialectal hyke (“to walk vigorously”), probably a Northern form of hitch, from Middle English hytchen, hichen, icchen (“to move, jerk, stir”). Cognate with Scots hyke (“to move with a jerk”), dialectal German hicken (“to hobble, walk with a limp”), Danish hinke (“to hop”). More at hick.

(American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.


hike

en-verb

hike (third-person singular simple present hikes, present participle hiking, simple past and past participle hiked)

hikes (present singular third-person)
hiking (participle present)
hiked (participle past)
hiked (past)

(American football) To snap the ball to start a play.


stand-up

en-adj

stand-up (comparative more stand-up, superlative most stand-up)

more stand-up (comparative)
most stand-up (superlative)

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stand-up double; stand-up triple

(baseball, of a hit) That allows the batter to advance to a given base (usually second or third) without having to slide.


BCS

Bowl Championship Series
w:Bowl Championship Series

(American football, historical) Initialism of Bowl Championship Series, replaced after the 2013 season by the College Football Playoff.


speculator

From Latin speculātor (“spy, explorer, investigator”), from speculor (“to watch, to observe”) + -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from specula (“watchtower”), from speciō (“to watch, to observe”), q.v. In some senses, an agent noun formed within English from speculate. Doublet of spectator.


chinaman

From Chinaman, a dated, now offensive term for a Chinese person. Compare Chinese (“unfamiliar, unexpected”). Named in reference to Ellis Achong, a West Indian player of Chinese descent.

Several cricketers came up to them and asked Pradeep about his effortless action mimicry and his promising chinaman bowling.

2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 103:

(cricket, dated) A left-arm unorthodox bowling action (left-arm wrist-spin).

(cricket) A spin bowler who uses such an action.

(cricket) A ball delivered with such an action.


meld

en-verb

meld (third-person singular simple present melds, present participle melding, simple past and past participle melded)

melds (present singular third-person)
melding (participle present)
melded (participle past)
melded (past)

The verb is probably borrowed from Dutch melden (“to announce; to let (someone) know, report; (specifically) to declare in a card game”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *melþōn (“to announce, declare; to inform”), and Proto-Indo-European *meldʰ- (“to ask; to pray; to speak”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
* Dutch melden
* Old English meldian (“to announce, declare; to inform, notify”) (Middle English melden (“to accuse, inform against; to announce, declare”))

свалям

(transitive) to announce or play (a combination of cards); (intransitive) to announce or play a combination of playing cards

Especially in games of the rummy family:

(transitive) To announce or play (a combination of playing cards) and thus score points.

(intransitive) To announce or play a combination of playing cards and thus score points.


meld

The realization that Istra was in the room made him forget most of his melds at pinochle; […]

1914 February, Sinclair Lewis, “He is Blown by the Whirlwind”, in Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 231:

(card games) Especially in games of the rummy family: a combination of playing cards which is announced or played to score points.

အထွေ

combination of playing cards announced or played to score points


squishy

en-adj

squishy (comparative squishier or more squishy, superlative squishiest or most squishy)

squishier (comparative)
more squishy (comparative)
squishiest (superlative)
most squishy (superlative)
squishie (alternative noun)

濕軟 /湿软

(of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud

Yeah, I’m, like, freaking tissue paper here. Come get the mage, everyone. Pick on the poor squishy mage!

2006, Marianne Mancusi, Stake That!, page 28:

Telling your healers how well they kept people alive when a battle was difficult is important; or, what a great job your thief did in disarming the traps to get to the raid; clapping your warriors on their backs for maintaining aggro (i.e., keeping the monster targeting them rather than “squishy” mages) or applauding the sorcerers who unloaded incredible amounts of damage.

2008, Jeon Rezvani, Guild Leadership: Lessons from the Virtual World, page 111:

What this tells us is that, against PCs equipped to confront a drow shadowblade, a single round's Multiattack is unlikely to deliver a one-hit kill – not unless the target is a squishy wizard or sorcerer.

2022, Keith Ammann, MOAR!: Monsters Know What They're Doing, page 89:

(gaming) Vulnerable to physical damage; having low hit points or defense.


mise

en-verb

mise (third-person singular simple present mises, present participle mising, simple past and past participle mised)

mises (present singular third-person)
mising (participle present)
mised (participle past)
mised (past)

(gaming, slang) To make a risky move with no regard for the consequences when the alternative is certain defeat.


norm

From Latin norma (“a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept”). Doublet of norma.

норма

math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals

(chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.


sink

en-verb

sink (third-person singular simple present sinks, present participle sinking, simple past sank or (dialectal) sunk, past participle sunk or (archaic) sunken)

sinks (present singular third-person)
sinking (participle present)
sank (past)
sunk (dialectal past)
sunk (participle past)
sunken (archaic participle past)

From Middle English synken, from Old English sincan, from Proto-West Germanic *sinkwan, from Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- (“to fall, sink”).
Compare West Frisian sinke, Low German sinken, Dutch zinken, German sinken, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål synke, Swedish sjunka. In the causative sense, it replaced Old English senċan (“make sink”) from Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną.

der

My sister beats me at pool in public a second time. I claim some dignity back by potting two of my balls before Tammy sinks the black.

2008, Edward Keating, The Joy of Ex: A Novel:

(heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.

(transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.


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)
nibble (first-person present singular)
nibbled (first-person past singular)
nibble (present second-person singular)
nibblest (archaic present second-person singular)
nibbled (past second-person singular)
nibbledst (archaic past second-person singular)
nibbles (present singular third-person)
nibbleth (archaic present singular third-person)
nibbled (past singular third-person)
nibble (plural present)
nibbled (past plural)
nibble (present subjunctive)
nibbled (past subjunctive)
nibble (imperative present)
nibbling (participle present)
nibbled (participle past)

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.


scalp

en-verb

scalp (third-person singular simple present scalps, present participle scalping, simple past and past participle scalped)

scalps (present singular third-person)
scalping (participle present)
scalped (participle past)
scalped (past)

From Middle English scalp, skalp, scalpe (“crown of the head; skull”). Originally a northern word, and therefore probably from a North Germanic source, although the sense-development is unclear; compare Sylt North Frisian Skolp (“dandruff”), Old Norse skálpr (“sheath”), Old Swedish skalp, Dutch schelp (“shell”).

The only sure thing about scalping the Series today is that the scalper is paying the bookie a greater profit because he is making a greater number of bets.

1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling, page 102:

(gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.


goner

From gone + -er. First attestations around 1850.

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


fist

fist (third-person singular simple present fists, present participle fisting, simple past and past participle fisted)

fists (present singular third-person)
fisting (participle present)
fisted (participle past)
fisted (past)
foost (alternative)

From Middle English fist, from Old English fȳst (“fist”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūsti, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fääste (“fist”), West Frisian fûst (“fist”), Dutch vuist (“fist”), German Low German Fuust (“fist”), German Faust (“fist”). More at five.

(transitive, gaming) To stomp, to utterly defeat


audible

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)

of Canada; without the cot–caught merger

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-West Germanic *hnodōn, 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”)), Faroese njóða (“to clench a nail”), Icelandic hnjóða (“to rivet, clinch”), Faroese noða (“to double by bending”), Icelandic hnoða (“to clinch, rivet”).

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/

(cricket) Of the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket.

(cricket) Of the batsman who opens the innings or of a bowler who opens the attack}}


post

en-verb

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

posts (present singular third-person)
posting (participle present)
posted (participle past)
posted (past)
poast (alternative obsolete)

Chinese: po

Inherited from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French. .

inh+

Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.

(transitive) To deposit a payment that may or may not be returned.


post

posts (plural)
poast (alternative obsolete)

→ 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.


cobbler

Probably a variant of or related to cob, cobb (“stony fruit kernel; nut used in the game of conkers, conker; game of conkers”), perhaps from Middle English cobbe (“head or leader; gangleader; bully (?); male swan, cob; the head; something rounded or in the form of a lump”): see further at etymology 3.

inh

(games) Synonym of conkers (“a game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a cobbler (sense 1.1) or conker) suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed”).


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.

(bridge) A pattern in which pairs change opponents and boards move from table to table in duplicate bridge.


concave

From Middle English concave, from Old French concave, from Latin concavus.

Coordinate term: convex

(gambling) A playing card made concave for use in cheating.


convex

Borrowed from Middle French convexe, from Latin convexus (“arched”).

Coordinate term: concave

(gambling) A playing card made convex for use in cheating.

Of all the devices for defrauding at poker, the “shiner,” or “convex” […] Modern convexes are also considerably larger than those of former days.

2019, John Philip Quinn, Fools of Fortune; or, Gambling and Gamblers:

(gambling) A small convex mirror used to cheat by observing other players' cards.


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

(games) A game, played on a device with a sloping base, in which the player operates a spring-loaded plunger to shoot a ball, between obstacles, and attempts to hit targets and score points.

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.


precision

precision (countable and uncountable, plural precisions)

/pɹɪˈsɪʒ.ən/

[pɹɪˈsɪʒ.n̩]

tarkkuus

the consistency of a number in a linear equation

(bridge) A bidding system that makes use of many artificial bids to describe a hand quite precisely.


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

screens (plural)
skreen (alternative obsolete)

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.

skerm

viewing area of electronic output device

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) Ellipsis of screen pass.

(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 obsolete)

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


plain

en-adj

plain (comparative plainer, superlative plainest)

plainer (comparative)
plainest (superlative)
plaine (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English pleyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pleyn, playn, Middle French plain, plein, and Old French plain, from Latin plānus (“flat, even, level, plain”). Doublet of llano, piano, and plane.


dribble

en-verb

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

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

dribloj

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


moss

en-noun

moss (countable and uncountable, plural mosses)

From Middle English mos, from Old English mos (“bog, marsh, moss”), from Proto-West Germanic *mos (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“moss”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moas (“moss”), West Frisian moas (“moss”), Dutch mos (“moss”), German Low German Moss (“moss”), German Moos (which shows the same polysemy of "moss" and "bog, fen"), Danish mos (“moss”), Swedish mossa (“moss”), Icelandic mosi (“moss”), Latin muscus (“moss”), Russian мох (mox, “moss”), Polish mech. Doublet of mousse.

cypress moss

Hypnum cupressiforme; Lycopodium alpinum

flowering moss (Pyxidanthera barbulata; Portulaca grandiflora;

moss crop

Eriophorum vaginatum; Eriophorum polystachion; Argentina anserina, syn. Potentilla anserina; Eleocharis palustris, syn. Scirpus caespitosus

willow moss

Hypnaceae, possibly Taxiphyllum barbieri

Bro, that moss was insane!

(American football, slang, countable) A spectacular catch made over 1 or multiple defenders, typically a jump ball.


moss

en-verb

moss (third-person singular simple present mosses, present participle mossing, simple past and past participle mossed)

mosses (present singular third-person)
mossing (participle present)
mossed (participle past)
mossed (past)

You just got mossed!

(American football, slang, transitive, intransitive) To make a spectacular catch over 1 or multiple defenders.


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, French étonner, 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.


solo

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus, probably related to se (“himself”).

(games) A card game similar to whist in which each player plays against the others in turn without a partner


simoleon

simoleons (plural)
simolean (alternative)
Simoleon (alternative)

Most likely a late-19th-century blend of simon (“dollar”), from simon (“sixpence coin”) (17th-century British slang, perhaps related to simony?), and Napoleon (“French gold coin worth 20 francs, bearing the image of Napoleon III”). Perhaps from New Orleans.
The gaming sense may have been chosen for its similarity to Sim.

The game franchise demands that its participants to simulate the "rat race," earning Simoleons, remodeling their homes, and buying properties.

2016 February 5, Emma Hazen, “Artist Profile: Jacky Connolly”, in Rhizome:

A fake, theoretical, or unofficial unit of currency.

(gaming; sometimes uncountable or capitalized) In-game currency of The Sims computer game series, or its symbol.


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

→ Maori: amapaea

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.

tredeog

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 vík. 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

chucks (plural)
chock (alternative obsolete)

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 obsolete)

(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”).

(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.


hopper

From Middle English hoppere, alteration of *hoppe (found in grashoppe (“grasshopper”)), from Old English *hoppa (“one who hops, hopper”), equivalent to hop + -er. Cognate with Dutch hopper (“hopper”), Swedish hoppare (“hopper, jumper”), Icelandic hoppari (“hopper”).

der

(chess) A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.


contempt

en-noun

contempt (countable and uncountable, plural contempts)

contempts (plural)
cōtempt (alternative obsolete)
cõtempt (alternative obsolete)

From Latin contemptus (“scorn”), from contemnō (“I scorn, despise”), from com- + temnō (“I despise”). Displaced native Old English forsewennes.

(chess, uncountable) Ellipsis of contempt factor.


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.


backgammon

en-noun

backgammon (countable and uncountable, plural backgammons)

Probably from back + Middle English gamen, from Old English gamen (“amusement, game”).

(backgammon) A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.


card game

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

(games) Any of the many games played with playing cards.

kaartspeletjie

any of very many games played with playing cards


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, Icelandic missa (“to lose”) and Latin mittere (“to send, let go”).
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.


miss

en-noun

miss (countable and uncountable, plural misses)

misses (plural)
Miss (alternative)
meess (alternative archaic pronunciation-spelling)
Meess (alternative archaic pronunciation-spelling)

(card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.


change of innings

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.


kitty

Hypothesized as related to kit ("collection of items").

(card games) A set of additional cards dealt face down in some games.

pöytäkortit

card games: set of additional cards dealt face down in some games


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.


Mississippi

Mississippis (plural)
Missippi (alternative nonstandard)

Borrowed from Ojibwe misi-ziibi, ᒥᓯ᐀ᓰᐱ (misi-siipi, “great river”).

Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming

American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands


lily

lilies (plural)
lilly (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English lilie, from Old English lilie, from Latin līlia, plural of līlium, from Ancient Greek λείριον (leírion). See there for more.

(card games, usually in the plural) A royal spade in auction bridge.


strip

en-noun

strip (countable and uncountable, plural strips)

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.


strip

en-verb

strip (third-person singular simple present strips, present participle stripping, simple past and past participle stripped)

strips (present singular third-person)
stripping (participle present)
stripped (participle past)
stripped (past)

From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”).

cog

(transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)

изтеглям

bridge: to remove all cards of a particular suit from another player


come out

en-verb

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

→ Catalan: cúter

→ Korean: 커터 (keoteo)

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)

Known for his innovative and unpredictable strokeplay, Dhoni had dead-batted this doosra straight back to the bowler.

2022, Amit Sinha, Joy Bhattacharjya, Do Different: The Untold Dhoni:

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


declare

declare (third-person singular simple present declares, present participle declaring, simple past and past participle declared)

declares (present singular third-person)
declaring (participle present)
declared (participle past)
declared (past)
declare (infinitive)
declare (first-person present singular)
declared (first-person past singular)
declare (present second-person singular)
declarest (archaic present second-person singular)
declared (past second-person singular)
declaredst (archaic past second-person singular)
declares (present singular third-person)
declareth (archaic present singular third-person)
declared (past singular third-person)
declare (plural present)
declared (past plural)
declare (present subjunctive)
declared (past subjunctive)
declare (imperative present)
declaring (participle present)
declared (participle past)

From Middle English declaren, from Old French declarer, from Latin dēclārō (“to make clear”), from dē- + clārus (“clear”).

декларирам

to make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.

(card games) To show one's cards in order to score.


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, Dutch schenkel, 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.


horizon

Inherited from Middle English orisonte, orisoun, from Middle French horizon, horizonte, from Old French orisonte, orison, via Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).

(computer chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.


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.


bunker

→ Catalan: búnquer

desctree

→ German: Bunker
→ Polish: bunkier
→ Romanian: buncăr

The origin of the noun is uncertain; the earliest sense is sense 6.1 (“box or chest, the lid of which serves as a seat”), from Scots bunker (“bench; pew; window-seat; sand pit (especially in golf); coal receptacle; sleeping berth, bunk”), from Early Scots bunker, bunkur, bonker (“a chest or box, often serving as a seat”), probably from Old Norse bunki (“a heap”) (probably whence bunk (“sleeping berth in a ship, train, etc.”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkô (“a heap, pile; a bump, lump, a crowd”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick”) or *bʰeg- (“to billow, swell; to arch, bend, curve (?)”). Compare Middle Low German bunge (“drum, container”), Middle High German bunge (“drum”). Sense 1 (“hardened shelter designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks”) was derived from German Bunker during World War II, which was itself from bunker (“large bin or container for storing coal”) (sense 5).
The verb is derived from the noun.

cog

(paintball) An obstacle used to block an opposing player's view and field of fire.


bunker

en-verb

bunker (third-person singular simple present bunkers, present participle bunkering, simple past and past participle bunkered)

bunkers (present singular third-person)
bunkering (participle present)
bunkered (participle past)
bunkered (past)

попадам в пясъчника

to hit (a golf ball) into a bunker; to place (a golfer) in the position of having a golf ball in a bunker

(transitive, paintball) To fire constantly at (an opponent hiding behind an obstacle), trapping them and preventing them from firing at other players; also, to eliminate (an opponent behind an obstacle) by rushing to the position and firing at extremely close range as the player becomes exposed.


blank

From Middle English blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Anglo-Norman blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Old French blanc, feminine blanche, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”), Spanish blanco. More at blink, blind, blanch. Doublet of blanc.

cog

the double blank

the six blank

(dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.


Charlie

en-noun

Charlie (usually uncountable, plural Charlies)

Charlies (plural)
Charley (alternative)
charley (alternative)
charlie (alternative)

(blackjack) The situation in some blackjack variants where a player wins automatically by showing a hand with the correct number of cards.


LP

LP (countable and uncountable, plural LPs)

(online gaming, Internet) Initialism of let's play.


FA

Football Association
w:Football Association

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


baccarat

First attested in the 19th century. Borrowed from French baccarat, baccara, likely named after the French town Baccarat (noted for glassmaking) in Grand Est, of ultimately unclear and debated origin (first attested in 1291. (uncertain)). If by some Vulgar Latin *Bacchara, the town is possibly named from Latin Bacchi ara ("altar of Bacchus"; the original pagan reference of the name was forgotten), name of an ancient Roman castellum, of which there remains a relic called the "Tower of Bacha" on the heights of Deneuvre, from whence Baccarat is an ancient suburb. Other hypotheses have also been suggested, including descent from Celtic.
Probably linked to Provençal baccara, although if the town etymology is correct, this may present some geographic difficulty.

unk

unclear and debated origin

(card games) A card game resembling chemin de fer with many forms - usually entailing the player(s) betting against two or three hands dealt - also bearing some similarities to blackjack.

Albert Guillaume
Baccarat, Meurthe-et-Moselle
baccarat


blackjack

en-noun

blackjack (countable and uncountable, plural blackjacks)

blackjacks (plural)
black jack (alternative)
black-jack (alternative)

→ Polish: blackjack

(card games) A common gambling card game in casinos, where the object is to get as close to 21 without going over.

廿一點 /廿一点

card game (the game where the aim is to score as close to twenty-one as possible without going over that amount)

(card games) A hand in the game of blackjack consisting of a face card and an ace.

(card games) A variant of switch where each player is initially dealt the same number of cards, usually seven, and when one player plays a black jack the player whose turn comes next has to pick up that many cards, unless they play a red jack (as this normally cancels a black jack).

(card games) A variant of hearts where the Jack of Spades is the penalty card.


idle

From Middle English idel, ydel, from Old English īdel (“idleness”), from the adjective (see above).


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.


leapfrog

en-noun

leapfrog (countable and uncountable, plural leapfrogs)

leapfrogs (plural)
leap frog (alternative)
leap-frog (alternative)

Sam Hood
State Library of New South Wales

La Poſte (jeu d'Enfant) Skip-frog, or Leap-frog, a Boyiſh Play.

[1700, [Abel] Boyer, “POSTE”, in The Royal Dictionary Abridged. In Two Parts. I. French and English. II. English and French. Containing near Five Thousand Words More than any French and English Dictionary yet Extant, besides the Royal. To which is Added, the Accenting of All English Words, to Facilitate the Pronunciation of the English Tongue to Foreigners, part I, London: Printed for R. Clavel [et al.], →OCLC:

Are they [female students] not, indeed, generally wanting in that power of healthy stimulation which, exerted at proper intervals and sustained for proper periods, at once develops the mental powers, and sends forth the young boy-student from his Greek construing and his Latin hexameters to his leap-frog and cricket, with a zeal and an energy which he will never feel again when the school-room door has finally closed on him?

1864 September, Archibald Maclaren, “Girls’ Schools”, in David Masson, editor, Macmillan’s Magazine, volume X, number 59, London, Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 16, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, page 414, column 1:

Madame could read with native grace and commendable fluency, making nimble leapfrogs over the heads of the exceptionally hard passages, but Leam had to spell every third word, and then she made a mess of it.

1876, E[lizabeth] Lynn Linton, “What Must Come”, in The Atonement of Leam Dundas, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, part V, page 91, column 1:

(games) A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row and bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until they reach the front of the line, whereupon they also bend over. The process is then repeated.


promotion

promotion (countable and uncountable, plural promotions)

/pɹəˈmoʊʃən/

/pɹəˈməʊʃən/

Late Middle English, from Old French promocion, from Late Latin promotio, from Latin promoveo (“I move forward”).

(chess) Transformation of a pawn into a piece (by reaching the opponent's back rank).


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.


patzer

Uncertain, but probably from German Patzer (“bungler”), from patzen.

If you have learned the principle that it is inadvisable to move the same piece twice in the opening you would probably imagine that these guys are patzers.

2004 September 5, Nigel Short, The Sunday Telegraph:

(chess, informal, derogatory) Synonym of woodpusher: a bad player.


butcher

→ Hindi: बूचड़ (būcaṛ)

→ Swahili: bucha

→ Urdu: بُوچَڑ (būcaṛ)

From Middle English bocher, boucher, from Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), of Germanic origin. More at English buck.

der

Coordinate term: bitch

(colloquial, archaic, card games) A king playing card.


assist

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

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.


phantom

en-noun

phantom (countable and uncountable, plural phantoms)

phantoms (plural)
fantom (alternative archaic)

Inherited from Middle English fantome, fanteme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “I make visible”). Doublet of phantasm.

der

(bridge) A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing.


prophylaxis

en-noun

prophylaxis (countable and uncountable, plural prophylaxes)

From Latin, from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”) + φύλαξις (phúlaxis, “a watching, guarding”).

(chess) A move or strategy that frustrates an opponent's plan or tactic.


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.


goulash

goulash (countable and uncountable, plural goulashes)

goulashes (plural)
gulyas (alternative)
gulasch (alternative)
goulasch (alternative)
gulash (alternative)

Borrowed from Hungarian gul(y)ás, short for gulyás hús (“beef or lamb soup made by herdsmen while pasturing”), from gulyás (“herdsman”) + hús (“meat”). First attested in English 1866.

(bridge) A style of play in which the cards are not thoroughly shuffled between consecutive deals, so as to make the suits less evenly distributed between the players.


scrum

French: scrum

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-scrum.wav

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)


multiplayer

[ˌmɐɫtiˈpl̥eɪ̯ə]

[ˌmʌɫtiˈpl̥eɪ̯ɚ]

(games) Requiring or allowing multiple (or more than the usual two) players to play simultaneously.

multiplayer

allowing multiple players to play simultaneously

massively multiplayer online role-playing game


multiplayer

en-noun

multiplayer (countable and uncountable, plural multiplayers)

multiplayers (plural)
multi-player (alternative rare)

[ˌmɐɫtiˈpl̥eɪ̯ə]

[ˌmʌɫtiˈpl̥eɪ̯ɚ]

I just heard that the game will have multiplayer when it comes out!

Glu Mobile, who realigned its workforce towards centralized GaaS functions last year, announced earlier this month that it will shut down GameSpy Technology on May 31. The service provides multiplayer functionality for dozens of games on consoles, computers and mobile devices.

2014 May 1, Jenna Pitcher, “Glu Mobile acquires Diner Dash developer PlayFirst”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 2023-09-27:

(games, uncountable) The feature of a video game where multiple human players play simultaneously.


spook

Borrowed from Dutch spook (“ghost”), from Middle Dutch spooc (“spook, ghost”). Cognate with Middle Low German spôk, spûk (“apparition, ghost”), Middle High German gespük (“a haunting”), German Spuk, Danish spøge (“to haunt”), Swedish spöke (“ghost”).

cog

(blackjack, slang) A player who engages in hole carding by attempting to glimpse the dealer's hole card when the dealer checks under an ace or a 10 to see if a blackjack is present.


cribbage

en-noun

cribbage (countable and uncountable, plural cribbages)

From crib + -age. Named from the "crib" consisting of certain cards laid aside by each player.

His solicitude for Sir Horace, his brother-in-law, was extreme, and he passed hours in the sick youth’s chamber, playing at cribbage, or dominos, or indulging the young baronet’s remarkable turn for cutting out trees, animals, or birds with tiny scissors on delicate paper.

1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter V, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 105:

How much more real this dream was than that they should go back to the house where the sleeping children lay and where Stanley and Beryl played cribbage.

1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 114

"No one remembers cribbage now," […]

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 31

(card games) A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the cribbage board used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic.


gin rummy

What is your latest foible? / Is gin rummy more exquisite? / Is skiing more enjoyable?

1943, “I'm A Stranger Here Myself”, Ogden Nash (lyrics), Kurt Weill (music):

That's what I was thinking, but then I remembered he'd never been to sea, that I'd only started calling him The Captain because he wore a captain's hat during a game of gin rummy at his grandmother's apartment one time while she was out of town.

2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 118:

(card games) A card-holding game and variant of rummy.


Go Fish

(card games) A children's card game in which players ask each other for cards of a particular rank, requiring them to "fish" in a pool of additional cards if they do not have the requested card.


pinochle

pinochle (countable and uncountable, plural pinochles)

pinochles (plural)
pinocle (alternative)

Perhaps from German Binokel, French binocle (literally “pince-nez”), a related card game.

He remembered all—every pinochle game, every woman, every sad night.

1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:

(card games) A card game, similar to bezique.

(card games) A meld of the jack of diamonds and queen of spades in that card game.


session

→ Japanese: セッション (sesshon)

→ Korean: 세션 (sesyeon)

→ Scottish Gaelic: seisean

sĕshˈˈˈˈˈˈˈ -ən

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.


pone

(card games, chiefly US) The last player to bet or play in turn.


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 of cricket in England and Wales”).


transpose

en-verb

transpose (third-person singular simple present transposes, present participle transposing, simple past and past participle transposed)

transposes (present singular third-person)
transposing (participle present)
transposed (participle past)
transposed (past)

From Middle English transposen, from Old French transposer, from Latin trānspositus, perfect passive participle of trānspōnō (“to put across”), from trāns (“across”) + pōnō (“to put”).

After e6, the opening transposed to a Sicilian.

(intransitive, chess) To reach a position that may also be obtained from a different move order.


make good

make good (third-person singular simple present makes good, present participle making good, simple past and past participle made good)

makes good (present singular third-person)
making good (participle present)
made good (participle past)
made good (past)

After all the players who determine to go in have made good the bet of the player who opened the Jack Pot, and the hands have been filled […]

1885, William Brisbane Dick, The American Hoyle: Or, Gentleman's Hand-book of Games:

(gambling) To match the first player's bet with one's own, rather than dropping out.


mid

Inherited from Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“mid, middle, midway”), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”).
Cognate with Dutch midden (“in the middle”), German Mitte (“center, middle, mean”), Icelandic miður (“middle”, adjective), Latin medius (“middle”, noun and adjective). See also middle. The slang sense may be influenced by terms such as middling and midwit.

cog

We need to retake mid.

(location, online gaming, slang) The middle of the battlefield.


mid

Everyone head mid.

(location, online gaming, slang) To or into the middle of the battlefield.


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.


craps

From Louisiana Creole craps, a corruption of English crabs.

“As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps ! If I were as free of spavins, ringbone, saddle-galls, and splints as you are, I'd have that nanny-goat in here, hog-tie her, flop her and let the boy help himself. […]”

1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter XII, in The Understanding Heart:

Start off the dice-rollin' mats for craps to cee-lo / With side-bets, I roll a deuce, nothin' below

1994, “Memory Lane (Sittin’ in da Park)”, in Illmatic, performed by Nas:

(gambling, dice games) A game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap.


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


kings

(card games) A drinking game that uses playing cards.


forcing

(bridge) Pertaining to a bid which requires partner to continue bidding rather than pass.


Boston

→ Abenaki: Pastonki, pastoni

→ Klamath-Modoc: basdin

→ Lushootseed: pastəd

→ Mohawk: Wáhston

The US city is named after the English town (from which several prominent colonists had come), which itself is sometimes said to be named as a contraction of Botolph's town or Botolph's stone (the name Botolph itself coming from Old English Botwulf, from boda + wulf). However, this is uncertain.

(card games) An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.


Boston

(card games) In the card game spades, a bid of all 13 tricks.


slough

en-verb

slough (third-person singular simple present sloughs, present participle sloughing, simple past and past participle sloughed)

sloughs (present singular third-person)
sloughing (participle present)
sloughed (participle past)
sloughed (past)
sluff (alternative)

From Middle English slogh, slugh, slouh, from Proto-Germanic *sluk-, perhaps related to *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”) (compare Gothic 𐍃𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌰𐌽 (sliupan)).
Akin to Middle Low German slô (“sheath, skin on a hoof”). Perhaps also related with Old Saxon slūk (“snakeskin”), Middle High German slūch, whence German Schlauch (“waterskin, hose”).

cog

East sloughed a heart.


alt

Of these alts, how many of them are a gender other than your own?

1996, Jonobie D. Baker, “Survey of MUSHers.”, in rec.games.mud.tiny (Usenet):

Yes, I have many alts, and no, none of the others have any unusual capitalisation.

2000, KaVir, “Code Bases - why release buggy crap?”, in alt.mud (Usenet):

(Internet slang, gaming) An alternate or secondary character.


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

en-noun

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.


promote

en-verb

promote (third-person singular simple present promotes, present participle promoting, simple past and past participle promoted)

promotes (present singular third-person)
promoting (participle present)
promoted (participle past)
promoted (past)

From Latin prōmōtus, perfect passive participle of prōmoveō (“move forward, advance”).

Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.

(transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.

umwandeln

replace a pawn by a different chess piece


territory

en-noun

territory (countable and uncountable, plural territories)

/ˈtɛɹɪˌtɔɹi/

Inherited from Middle English territorie, from Latin territōrium.

inh+

Scotland had the territory and the momentum, forcing England into almost twice as many tackles and rattling them repeatedly at set-pieces.

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

(sports and games) The part of the playing field or board over which a player or team has control.


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.


knap

knap (third-person singular simple present knaps, present participle knapping, simple past and past participle knapped)

knaps (present singular third-person)
knapping (participle present)
knapped (participle past)
knapped (past)
knap (infinitive)
knap (first-person present singular)
knapped (first-person past singular)
knap (present second-person singular)
knappest (archaic present second-person singular)
knapped (past second-person singular)
knappedst (archaic past second-person singular)
knaps (present singular third-person)
knappeth (archaic present singular third-person)
knapped (past singular third-person)
knap (plural present)
knapped (past plural)
knap (present subjunctive)
knapped (past subjunctive)
knap (imperative present)
knapping (participle present)
knapped (participle past)

The verb is derived from Late Middle English knappen (“to strike (something)”); further etymology uncertain, probably related to Middle Dutch knappen, cnappen (“to break (something) with a sharp sound, snap; to crack or crackle”) (modern Dutch knappen), probably ultimately onomatopoeic.
The noun is derived from Late Middle English knap, knappe (“sharp blow, strike”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from the verb (see above), or related to an ancestor of Danish knep and Swedish knäpp (“a flick, rap, snap”), probably ultimately onomatopoeic.

napauttaa

(transitive) to say (something) crisply or sharply; (intransitive) to speak crisply or sharply

(gambling, chiefly dice games, obsolete) To cheat while gambling, especially at a dice game.


knap

'Tis your pence a piece, / […] / Preſto begon? or come aloft? VVhat vvay? / Doublets? or Knap? The Cog? lovv Dice? or high?

a. 1659 (date written), John Cleveland, “The Publick Faith”, in The Works of Mr. John Cleveland, […], London: […] R. Holt, for Obadiah Blagrave, […], published 1687, →OCLC, page 200:

And fights vvith Money-bags as bold, / As men vvith Sand-bags did of old: / […] Engages blind and ſenſeleſs Hap / 'Gainſt High, and Lovv, and Slur and Knap, […]

a. 1681 (date written), Samuel Butler, “Satyr”, in R[obert] Thyer, editor, The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1759, →OCLC, page 83, lines 45–46 and 51–52:

(figurative, gambling, chiefly dice games, obsolete) A method of cheating at a dice game.


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.