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adjective
1.
of or pertaining to a sport or sports, especially of the open-air or athletic kind: a sports festival.
2.
(of garments, equipment, etc.) suitable for use in open-air sports, or for outdoor or informal use.
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Sports
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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noun
1.
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
2.
a particular form of this, especially in the out of doors.
3.
diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
4.
jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously.
5.
EXPANDmockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him.
6.
an object of derision; laughingstock.
7.
something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.
8.
something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.
9.
a sportsman.
10.
Informal. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well.
11.
Informal. a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.
12.
Informal. a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.
13.
Biology. an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
14.
COLLAPSEObsolete. amorous dalliance.
adjective
15.
of, pertaining to, or used in sports or a particular sport.
16.
suitable for outdoor or informal wear: sport clothes.
verb (used without object)
17.
to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation.
18.
to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal.
19.
to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport.
20.
to trifle or treat lightly: to sport with another's emotions.
21.
EXPANDto mock, scoff, or tease: to sport at suburban life.
22.
COLLAPSEBotany. to mutate.
verb (used with object)
Idiom23.
to pass (time) in amusement or sport.
24.
to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often followed by away).
25.
Informal. to wear, display, carry, etc., especially with ostentation; show off: to sport a new mink coat.
26.
Archaic. to amuse (especially oneself).
27.
sport one's oak. oak (def. 5).
Related forms
sport·ful, adjective
sport·ful·ly, adverb
sport·ful·ness, noun
sport·less, adjective
out·sport, verb (used with object)
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Word Origin & History
sport
c.1440, "pleasant passtime," from sport (v.). Meaning "game involving physical exercise" first recorded 1523. Original sense preserved in phrases such as in sport "in jest" (c.1440). Sense of "stylish man" is from 1861, Amer.Eng., probably because they lived by gambling and
EXPANDbetting on races. Meaning "good fellow" is attested from 1881 (e.g. be a sport, 1913). The sport of kings was originally (1668) war-making. Sportswear is from 1912. Sports car first attested 1928. Sportscast first recorded 1938. Sportsman first recorded 1706. Sporting "characterized by conduct constant with that of a sportsman" is attested from 1799 (e.g. sporting chance, 1897). Sportsmanship is from 1745.
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sport definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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