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wheelchair basketball

noun

Etymology

From wheelchair + basketball.

  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. compounded as wheelchair basketball — “wheelchair + basketball”

Definitions

  1. A sport derived from basketball, played by people sitting in wheelchairs.

The neighborhood

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