Sports & Recreation Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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ballhawk n. The neighborhood around Wrigley Field, called Wrigleyville, is filled with fans on game day. Ballhawks, as they are called, wait on Waveland Avenue to catch home runs during the game. [English Baseball Sports & Recreation Chicago] [full cite] (May. 8, 2007)

balling n. In fact, his teammates suggest he is not just filling in for injured starters, but is a real reason the defense has improved in recent weeks, jumping all the way to eighth overall in the NFL. “He’s ballin’ right now,” Newman said of Reeves. “You can’t keep him out if he’s ballin.” But he’s played before. This is his fourth year. He knows what to do.” [English Football Sports & Recreation Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 5, 2007)

banana ball n. Golfers who hit “banana balls”—the term for a weak, ballooning, left-to-right ball flight (for a right-handed player)—found that they were able to hit the ball much straighter with Burns’ club. [English Sports & Recreation Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 22, 2007)

banana skin n. Italy are a good side—they won two games in the Six Nations and pushed Ireland in the warm-ups and most of them have beaten Scotland before. This, therefore, is not a “banana skin”; it’s what the French call a seizième-final, the round before the last eight, rather like the match we won against Fiji, 22-20, in Sydney in 2003. [English Sports & Recreation Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 1, 2007)

bandit safety n. Entering spring, Andrews and Pugh were listed at the same position in the team’s prospectus, what West Virginia refers to as its “bandit” safety in its tricky 3-3-5 defense. But, to get both on the field at the same time, they split them up, putting Pugh at the “spur” safety spot while Boogie Allen plays at free safety. [English Football Sports & Recreation Jargon] [full cite] (Apr. 17, 2008)

bang v. As of this moment, neither game has been called off—or “banged,” in clubhouse parlance—but plenty of the players have their fingers crossed. [English Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Mar. 9, 2005)

bang v. After an hour-long rain delay, the umpires called the game because the field was a mess.…“Early in the game I thought, ‘Yeah, we’re going to get banged pretty soon,’ but once we got into the fifth, sixth inning and they didn’t bang it I said, ‘Well, we’re going to play right through.’” [English Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Mar. 9, 2005)

bang v. The baseball slang for canceling a game is to “bang it.” [English Baseball Sports & Recreation Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 9, 2005)

bang v. Last year we’re down 7-3 in New York and they bang the game after 32 minutes. [English Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Mar. 9, 2005)

banged v. We were rained on for 6 solid hours and the game was banged by 4:30. [English Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Mar. 9, 2005)

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