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Sports

Of or pertaining to any organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity or game requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means within a specified set of rules.

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skins

Sports; Golf

A competition between two to five players where each hole is competed for individually. A wager (called a "skin") is made on each hole. The skin is awarded to the player who wins ...

bite

Sports; Golf

What a golfer yells at their ball when they want it to stop quickly on the green (and not roll off the back edge). Bite actually refers to a braking effect caused by underspin ...

body english

Sports; Golf

Signals given by a golfer's posture immediately after making contact with the ball that tell the educated observer what the golfer thought of his/her swing. Also refers to the ...

chunk

Sports; Golf

To "chunk" a shot means that the clubhead struck the ground well before it made contact with the ball. The clubhead slowed considerably before it reached the ball and the ball was ...

concede

Sports; Golf

In match play, to concede a hole means that one player recognizes the hopelessness of competing further (on this hole) and picks up the ball without holing out. Of course, this ...

dialed in

Sports; Golf

Television commentators are known to use this phrase to describe a player whose every shot seems to have a near perfect result. It's a machinery analog, indicating that this ...

danga

Sports; Golf

An east-Asian hardwood briefly used to make shafts. Walter Hagen endorsed dangawood clubs citing a lower trajectory (compared to hickory-shafted clubs) useful in Texas where wind ...