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Baseball has its own rhythm, its own rules, its own specific appeal to our senses and sensibilities. And with all of that comes its own language, its own grand and goofy glossary of phrases that, for the unindoctrinated, might sound like total gibberish. So what follows is a list of wor...
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In more recent history, games like baseball and basketball have been developed. The innovators behind sports like these took elements of games that had been played in other eras to create something new. Professional sports For most of history, sports were played on an amateur basis. Some single...
Back in the early days of professional baseball, a clean-cut look was required for players. So when the House of David baseball team rolled into town, … [Read More...] Unscripted with SportsLingo Shaped By Sport How Tamara Donelson fell in love with mountain biking in spite of herself ...
Sports provide fertile ground for the development of slang terms. Jargon specific to different sports can quickly become part of everyday speech. Consider the phrase "home run" in baseball or "hat-trick" in soccer, which has now entered mainstream English vocabulary. These terms offer a sense ...
Slang was the use of colorful words, derived from regional or time specific terminology, used in place of more formal words. Many time frames and cultures have their own unique slang. For example, during the 20th century on Earth, several cultural moveme
To my knowledge, nothing has shaped the language of business more than sports, and not just one sport: BASEBALL: to field a phone call, to be home free, to come out of left field, to be in the ball park, to be out of someones league, to pitch ideas, thats one strike against him...
Peloterois a slang term used to refer to a baseball player. Baseball is a popular sport in Puerto Rico, and this term is commonly used to talk about players or the sport itself. It’s derived from the Spanish word “pelota,” which means ball. ...
Slang, jargon, idioms, and proverbs. What do they mean? Here's a short overview for English learners that explains and gives examples of each type of expression. Slang Slang is used by relatively small groups of people in informal situations. As it is used by limited groups of people, sl...