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basketballese

noun

Etymology

From basketball + -ese.

  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. formed as basketballese — “basketball + -ese”

Definitions

  1. The jargon associated with the sport of basketball.

    • During the long, dreary, wet winter I amused myself by watching college and Pro basketball on the idiot box. Will one of you basketball-savvy gardeners please tell me what RPI stands for in basketballese?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for basketballese. 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