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

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bag skate n. Hockey players call it a “bag skate.” An early-morning practice during which a cranky coach skates his disinterested team till the players are bagged. Out of gas. Exhausted. A bag skate is a great attention getter for a coach who thinks his team has lost its focus. [English Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Oct. 12, 2006)

bag-skate stick n. He hauled out a “bag-skate” stick for the 54 minutes of torture. What’s a bag-skate stick? “When they’re going to work your bag off, you get a stick with no tape on it,” Buchberger said. “It slides easier across the ice.” [English Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Oct. 12, 2006)

bag-skating n. Bag-skating is the hockey term for keeping the pucks in the bag and usually entails length-of-the-ice sprints. [English Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Oct. 12, 2006)

bagel v. As usual after a defeat, Venus was tight-lipped, offering platitudes but no explanation as to what happened, especially in the first set when, as they say in tennis, she got bageled. [English Sports & Recreation Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 30, 2009)

ball golf n. Wheeler, who also plays traditional golf or “ball golf” as he calls it, said disc golf is just as challenging as regular golf but takes less time. [English Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Oct. 3, 2009)

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)

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