| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| United States professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934) |
Aaron
,
Hank Aaron
,
Henry Louis Aaron
|
| portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player |
accordion
,
piano accordion
,
squeeze box
|
| antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically |
acoustic gramophone
,
gramophone
|
| United States tennis player who was the first Black woman player to win all the major world singles titles (1927-2003) |
Althea Gibson
,
Gibson
|
| (poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot |
ante
|
| United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993) |
Arthur Ashe
,
Arthur Robert Ashe
,
Ashe
|
| (sports) the act of enabling another player to make a good play |
assist
|
| automatic mechanical device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention |
auto-changer
,
changer
,
record changer
|
| United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925) |
B. B. King
,
King
,
Riley B King
|
| United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948) |
Babe Ruth
,
George Herman Ruth
,
Ruth
,
Sultan of Swat
|
| card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine |
baccarat
,
chemin de fer
|
| position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage |
back
|
| wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the instrument |
bagpipe
,
pipe
|
| (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play |
ball carrier
|
| player in a band (especially a military band) |
bandsman
|
| baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base) |
base runner
,
runner
|
| trading card with a picture of a baseball player and information about his playing record |
baseball card
|
| lines a baseball player must follow while running the bases |
baseline
|
| card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards |
beggar-my-neighbor
,
beggar-my-neighbour
,
strip-Jack-naked
|
| United States baseball player (born 1925) |
Berra
,
Lawrence Peter Berra
,
Yogi
,
Yogi Berra
|
