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judge
hero ball
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Eddie the Eagle rule
loose
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gatecrasher
sneak in
squeeze out
all-state
team sport
stayaway
noncompetitor
A team
goalkeeper
Independent Olympic Participant
tweener
goaltender
eyeballer
blind leading the blind
goalminder
contestatory
scratch
home game
one-upmanship
camper
play fight
nondelegate
qualifier
tyke
nonentrant
quarterfinalist
field
undroppable
nonchallenger
contact sport
league
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elimination
cursitor
king
choker
heat
beer league
queen
Corinthian
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world-beater
game
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nonfinalist
mark
uppity
nonresistant
bye
pickup
tourney
competitor
contender
tournament
free substitution
crit
race
walk-on
contestant
off-season
round game
straddle
taxi squad
playersexuality
defaulter
competing
nonequestrian
opponent
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rank outsider
bystander
strategyproof
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contestatory
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invitational
runner
save
non partant
league cup
captain
prospect
nonrace
backbencher
bandit
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judge
hero ball
invasion
free agency
gatecrasher
team sport
stayaway
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A team
goalkeeper
Independent Olympic Participant
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goaltender
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goalminder
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noun
- A private individual entrant into a race or competition who does not have the backing of a large, professional team.
- A racing team that is not a subsidiary of a large conglomerate, or automotive/vehicle manufacturer.
- An officer or any other member of the crew of such a ship; a government-sanctioned pirate.
- An advocate or beneficiary of privatization of a government service or activity.
- A privately owned warship that acted under a letter of marque to attack enemy ships and take possession of their cargo.
verb
noun
- A person (from one or the other team) who runs out onto the field during the game to take verbal instructions from the coach to the players. A runner mustn't interfere with play, and may have to wear an identifying shirt to make clear his or her purpose on the field.
- Somebody who controls or manages (e.g. a system).
- A player who runs for a batsman who is too injured to run; he is dressed exactly as the injured batsman, and carries a bat.
- Anyone sent on an errand or with communications, especially for a bank (or, historically, a foot soldier responsible for carrying messages during war).
- A short sling with a carabiner on either end, used to link the climbing rope to a bolt or other protection such as a nut or friend.
- An automobile; a working or driveable automobile.
- A competitor in a poker tournament.
- A person or vessel who runs blockades or engages in smuggling. (Especially used in combination, e.g. gunrunner).
- Part of a shoe that is stitched to the bottom of the upper so it can be glued to the sole.
- A speedrunner.
- A long, narrow carpet for a high traffic area such as a hall or stairs.
- An employee of a sports agent who tries to recruit possible player clients for the agent.
- A quick escape away from a scene.
- A type of soft-soled shoe originally intended for runners.
- A rope to increase the power of a tackle.
- A person who moves, on foot, at a fast pace, especially an athlete.
- Any entrant, person or animal (especially a horse), for a race or any competition; a candidate for an election.
- An idea or plan that has potential to be adopted or put into operation.
- A part of a cigarette that is burning unevenly.
- A baserunner.
- One who runs away; a deserter or escapee.
- The blade of an ice skate.
- The channel or strip on which a drawer is opened and closed.
- Part of a mechanism which allows something to be pulled out for maintenance.
- The curved base of a rocking chair.
- In saddlery, a loop of metal through which a rein is passed.
- In molding, a channel cut in a mold.
- The rotating-stone of a grinding-mill.
- The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
- A tool in which lenses are fastened for polishing.
- A long stolon sent out by a plant (such as strawberry), in order to root new plantlets, or a plant that propagates by using such runners.
- A running gag
- A part of an apparatus that moves quickly.
- A smooth strip on which a sledge runs.
- A leaping food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; the skipjack, shoemaker, or yellowtail.
- A restaurant employee responsible for taking food from the kitchens to the tables.
- A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
- A strip of fabric used to decorate or protect a table or dressing table.
noun
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- A saving throw.
- A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
prep
conj
verb
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To store for future use.
- To economize or avoid waste.
- To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- To accumulate money or valuables.
noun
- One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
- An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
- The head boy of a school.
- A maître d', a headwaiter.
- A chief or leader.
- An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
- A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
- The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
- A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.
- The leader of a group of workers.
verb
noun
- Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.
- Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
- A hope; a hopeful.
- The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
- A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
- The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
- A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
- The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
- A potential client or customer.
- The façade of an organ.
verb
noun
- A member of a team who does not usually play, but who is held in reserve.
- A Member of Parliament who does not have cabinet rank, and who therefore sits on one of the backbenches or in one of the back rows of the legislature.
- A student who does not perform well, especially one who sits at the back of the classroom.
- Someone who does not play an active role in a process.
noun
- A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.
- One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
- An outlaw.
- An aircraft identified as an enemy, but distinct from "hostile" or "threat" in that it is not immediately to be engaged.
- One who cheats others.
verb
noun
- A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
- A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
- An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
- An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
- The neuter gender.
adj
- Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
- Sexless, nonsexual.
- Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.
- Intransitive.
- Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
verb
noun
- A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar.
- A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.
- A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
- A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.
verb
- To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).
- To form an opinion; to infer.
- To judicially rule or determine.
- To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
- To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
- To form an opinion on; to appraise.
- To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter).
- To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
- To criticize or label another person or thing.
noun
- The entry without consent of an individual or group into an area where they are not wanted.
- A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of conquering territory or altering the established government.
- The breaching of the skin barrier.
- The spread of cancer cells, bacteries and such to the organism.
adj
- Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
- Not compact.
- Not fitting closely
- Relaxed.
- Indiscreet.
- Not held or packaged together.
- Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
- Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
- Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
- Not under control.
- Having oversteer.
verb
- Of a grip or hold, to let go.
- To shoot (an arrow).
- To let loose, to free from restraints.
- To make less tight, to loosen.
- To unfasten, to loosen.
intj
noun
noun
- A person who plays at two positions, not good enough at either to be restricted to it.
- A professional wrestler who is neutral or morally ambiguous; neither a face nor a heel, or showing no favoritism to either allegiance.
- A tweenager.
- A person, machine or piece of software that performs tweening.
- A boxer in various newcomer weight classes whose names often contain "super", "light" or "junior".
- A shot that is hit between the legs.
- A film that falls between two genres (and thus may not be easily marketed).
- A computing device that is smaller than a traditional laptop, but larger than a PDA.
noun
- A secret accomplice who surreptitiously watches the competition and interferes by causing a distraction to prevent the opponent from getting a good shot.
- Something eye-catching or worth noticing.
- An investigator who watches for signs of anything unusual or suspicious.
- Someone who stares at another in order to intimidate them.
- One who estimates or judges based on visual inspection rather than detailed analysis.
- A voyeur or inquisitive person.
noun
- a competitor who has withdrawn from competition
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- informal terms for money
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- dry mash for poultry
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- poor handwriting
- (golf) a handicap of zero strokes
- an indication of damage
verb
- cause friction
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
noun
- all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
- a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
- a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
- somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
- a branch of knowledge
- the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
- a particular kind of commercial enterprise
- a particular environment or walk of life
- a piece of land prepared for playing a game
- extensive tract of level open land
- (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1
- a region in which active military operations are in progress
- all of the horses in a particular horse race
- a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
- (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
- the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
- a place where planes take off and land
verb
noun
- An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
- A group or association of cooperating members.
- A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
- The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
- A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
- A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).
- An alliance or coalition.
verb
noun
- One of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring.
- A defendant in a civil action.
- A fighter who seeks to repel an attack.
- Someone who defends people or property.
- A lawyer who represents defendants, especially a public defender; a defense attorney (US) or defence counsel (UK).
noun
- The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
- The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
- The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
- The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
- The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
- The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
- The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
noun
noun
- a competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
- a very wealthy or powerful businessman
- preeminence in a particular category or group or field
- a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
- one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
- (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
noun
- One who performs badly at an important part of a competition because they are nervous, especially when winning.
- One who operates the choke of an engine during ignition.
- Any disappointing or upsetting circumstance.
- A loop of cable fastened around a log to haul it.
- One who, or that which, chokes or strangles.
- A piece of jewelry or ornamental fabric, worn as a necklace or neckerchief, tight to the throat.
noun
- a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race
- a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature
- the presence of heat
- the sensation caused by heat energy
- the trait of being intensely emotional
- applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
- utility to warm a building
verb
noun
- a competitor who holds a preeminent position
- the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- a female sovereign ruler
- the wife or widow of a king
- something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- (chess) the most powerful piece
- an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
- female cat
verb
adj
- Being a sporting event (originally in horse racing and yachting) restricted to gentleman amateurs.
- Elaborate, ornate.
- Of or relating to Corinth.
- Debauched in character or practice; impure.
- Of the Corinthian Greek order.
noun
- A worldly, fashionable person, accepted in society though possibly dissolute.
- A small tubular wafer used in desserts.
- Horse show-class in which contestants are members of a formal hunt and wear its livery, as opposed to appointment show-class.
- An accomplished amateur athlete.
- An inhabitant or a resident of Corinth, and its suburbs.
- An inhabitant, a resident of; a thing that originates from Corinthia
- A sailboat owner who helms his or her own boat in competitive racing.
noun
- a single play of a sport or other contest
- a contest with rules to determine a winner
- an amusement or pastime
- animal hunted for food or sport
- (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves
- (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win
- the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game
- your occupation or line of work
- frivolous or trifling behavior
verb
adj
verb
- To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
- To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
- To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
- To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
- To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
- To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
- To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
- To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
- To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
- To create (a mark) on a surface.
- To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
- To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
- To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
- To record that (someone) has a particular status.
- To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
- To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
- To create an indication of (a location).
- To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
- To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
- To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
- To be typical or characteristic of (something).
- To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
noun
- A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral).
- A score for a sporting achievement.
- A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.
- A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
- A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
- A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
- Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.)
- A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.
- A sign or brand on a person.
- A target for shooting at with a projectile.
- Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
- The model number of a device; a device model.
- A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.
- An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.
- A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
- An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.
- The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game.
- One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
- An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.
- Attention.
- Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
- A characteristic feature.
- A written character or sign.
- A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
- The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
- Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
- A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total.
- Limit or standard of action or fact.
- A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
noun
- The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.
- Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.
- An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
- An unspecified way or place.
- A pass.
intj
adj
noun
- Impromptu or ad hoc, especially of sports games and teams made up of randomly selected players.
- A person successfully approached in this manner for romance or sex.
- In a record player, an electromagnetic component that converts the needle vibrations into an electrical signal.
- The act of a challenging party or candidate winning an electoral district held by an incumbent party or candidate. See also gain
- The rate at which a motor vehicle picks up speed.
- The act of answering a telephone.
- A relatively minor shot filmed or recorded after the fact to augment previous footage.
- The act of collecting and taking away something or someone, usually in a vehicle.
- An instance of approaching someone and engaging in romantic flirtation and courting with the intent to pursue romance, a date, or a sexual encounter.
- A pickup truck.
- A time during which passengers, such as school children, are picked up.
- In various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.
- electromagnetic coil receiver of metal string oscillations
- The condition of being picked up, or taken up; adoption by some entity.
- An item that can be picked up by the player, conferring some benefit or effect; a power-up.
verb
- To compete against in a race (contest).
- To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.
- To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
- To assign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race.
- To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
noun
- Subspecies.
- A race condition.
- A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
- A progressive movement toward a goal.
- Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
- A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.
- A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel.
- A water channel, esp. one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised.
- An infraspecific rank, a pathotype, pathovar, etc.
- A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
- A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins
- A large group of sentient beings distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage (compare species, subspecies).
- The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.
- A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
- A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage (compare ethnic group). See Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race.
- A group or category distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.
- Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.
noun
- A student athlete who wants to try out for a college sports/athletic team without the benefit of a scholarship or having been recruited.
- One who arrives and boards transport (such as a train or ferry) without having booked in advance.
- An actor of a small (or "bit") part in a theatrical production or film, often without speaking lines.
- Such a part in a play or film.
verb
- To place a voluntary raise prior to receiving cards (only by the first player after the blinds).
- To form a disorderly sprawl; to spread out irregularly.
- To be on both sides of something; to have parts that are in different places, regions, etc.
- To fire successive artillery shots in front of and behind of a target, especially in order to determine its range (the term "bracket" is often used instead).
- To consider or favor two apparently opposite sides; to be noncommittal.
- To execute a commodities market spread.
- To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something; to sit astride.
- To stand with the ends staggered; said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
noun
- A voluntary raise made prior to receiving cards by the first player after the blinds.
- A posture in which one straddles something.
- A pair or salvo of successive artillery shots falling both in front of and behind a target.
- An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with put and call options on the same security at the same strike price, giving a non-directional position sensitive to volatility.
- A vertical mine-timber supporting a set.
adv
noun
- One who opposes another physically (in a fight, sport, game, or competition).
- The participant who opens an academic debate by putting forward objections to a theological or philosophical thesis.
- One who opposes another; one who works or takes a position against someone or something; one who attempts to stop the progress of someone or something.
- One who opposes another in words (in a dispute, argument or controversy).
- One who is opposed or objects (to a policy, course of action or set of ideas).
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