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advance the ball

verb

Definitions

  1. To move the ball closer to the goal.

    • Osweiler finished the game 22 for 41 for a measly 131 yards. He was sacked just once but spent the evening throwing short, ineffective passes that did little to advance the ball.

  2. To make progress towards some shared or ultimate goal.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for advance the ball. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA