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patters University slang.|ˈpætəz| [f. first syllable of pat-ball + -er6.] A university students' name for tennis.
1900Captain IV. 26/1 In the Summer, a great form of ‘eccer’ is ‘patters’, a corruption of ‘patball’, i.e. tennis. 1912A. F. Wilding On Court & Off v. 103 A tremendous amount of ‘patters’, as tennis is popularly called, is played at the University. |