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Catchword for “hully-gully”
Catchword: hully-gully
Filed Under: ,
Part of Speech: adj.
The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.
Quotation: Terrell played the style Hughes had learned from Adams: run, pass, lob, dunk, press, crash the boards. Some called it hully-gully ball, or playground ball. “We were playing today’s game back in the sixties.…We were doing the alley-oop lob pass to six-foot-two guys in 1964. Every fourth or fifth trip down the floor was a dunk.”
Article or Document Title:
“The Duke of Dunbar” (URL)
Author:
Michael Hall
Date of Publication:
Jan., 2004
Originally published in:
Original Author:
Mike Lupica
Original Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Best American Sports Writing 2005
Original Date Published:
Oct. 5, 2005
Original Page Number: 240
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