英语词汇“clock-eating”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

C3. Sport (originally and chiefly U.S.). With participles, forming adjectives designating an action, strategy, style of play, etc., intended to allow a player or team to stay in control of the ball, puck, etc., and preserve an advantage, esp. near the end of a game or match, as in clock-eating, clock-killing, etc. Similarly with verbal nouns forming nouns. Cf. Phrases 11.

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1939 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 3 Nov. 16/2 It is a pleasantly wholesome sign of the times that so many persons are wrought up by the ‘clock-killing’ tactics of the Yale eleven in the closing minutes of the football match with Army.

1990 Sports Illustr. 19 Nov. 36/3 The Texas coaching staff had talked all week about its intention to mount long clock-eating drives that would keep Klingler & Co. off the field.

2002 Detroit News (Nexis) 29 Nov. 5 d What the Patriots did was take control on a nine-minute-plus drive, a deft bit of clock-chewing aided in great part by three key Brady third-down plays.

2017 Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram (Nexis) 25 Nov. b20 Bosco..couldn't execute a clock-killing play, giving Centennial the ball back with one second left.

单词	clock-eating
释义	> as lemmas clock-eating C3. Sport (originally and chiefly U.S.). With participles, forming adjectives designating an action, strategy, style of play, etc., intended to allow a player or team to stay in control of the ball, puck, etc., and preserve an advantage, esp. near the end of a game or match, as in clock-eating, clock-killing, etc. Similarly with verbal nouns forming nouns. Cf. Phrases 11. ΚΠ 1939 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 3 Nov. 16/2 It is a pleasantly wholesome sign of the times that so many persons are wrought up by the ‘clock-killing’ tactics of the Yale eleven in the closing minutes of the football match with Army. 1990 Sports Illustr. 19 Nov. 36/3 The Texas coaching staff had talked all week about its intention to mount long clock-eating drives that would keep Klingler & Co. off the field. 2002 Detroit News (Nexis) 29 Nov. 5 d What the Patriots did was take control on a nine-minute-plus drive, a deft bit of clock-chewing aided in great part by three key Brady third-down plays. 2017 Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram (Nexis) 25 Nov. b20 Bosco..couldn't execute a clock-killing play, giving Centennial the ball back with one second left. extracted from clockn.¹adv. < as lemmas
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