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polocrosse|pəʊləʊˈkrɒs|
Also polo crosse.
[Blend of polo and lacrosse.]
A team game played on horseback with a rubber ball and a stick with a head like that of a lacrosse-stick.
1952J. B. Pick Phoenix Dict. Games 105 The ground required by polo crosse is smaller than a polo field. 1965Newsweek 19 Apr. 94 For a battering, breath-taking roughhouse on horseback, have a go at polocrosse in New South Wales. 1974Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 16 Aug. 19 Polocrosse was far from being a poor cousin of the better known millionaire sport of polo. 1975Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 792/1 There were at least ten polo crosse clubs in Britain soon after the second world war, most of them in the West Country, but there is little evidence of the game in Britain now. |