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basketballer

noun

Etymology

From basketball + -er.

  1. derived from *bʰel-✻
  2. derived from *bʰélō✻
  3. inherited from *balluz✻
  4. derived from bǫllr
  5. inherited from *beall✻
  6. inherited from bal
  7. formed as basketball — “basket + ball”
  8. suffixed as basketballer — “basketball + er”

Definitions

  1. A basketball player

    A basketball player; a person who plays basketball.

    • In fact the latter are likely to develop muscles of the kind and strength that may even be a handicap to the Nth degree basketballer.
    • For the basketballer on the court, it expresses itself in individual play: running, passing, defending, shooting for goal.
    • The most famous sportsman rumoured to come for a round here was basketballer Michael Jordan, who flew in just for the midnight golf experience.

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