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ˈbasket-ˌball
Also basketball.
A game played indoors or out of doors with a large inflated ball, which is thrown from player to player, the object being to score by casting it into one's opponents' goal, a basket fixed ten feet above the ground at each end of the field of play.
1892J. Naismith in Triangle (U.S.) Jan. 144 (heading) Basket Ball. We present to our readers a new game of ball. 1893Birkenhead News 9 Dec. 7/5 Interesting Basket-Ball Match. 1898Daily News 8 June 5/2 Vassar, Syracuse, Cornell, Wellesley, and Rosemary Hall have each their teams of girl basket-ball players. 1901Westm. Gaz. 1 May 7/1 A game of ‘basket ball’, played by ten over-heated and dishevelled ladies in—bloomers! 1926Encycl. Brit. New Suppl. I. 337/2 Basketball has become the national indoor game of the United States.
▸ basketballer n.
1898Los Angeles Times 12 Apr. 7/1 Berkeley *basket-ballers are the right sort. 2003J. Lethem Fortress of Solitude i. xvi. 255 He stooped from a basketballer's height, his enormous frame draped in a dust-colored suit and folded awkwardly behind the table. |