单词 | code-hopper |
释义 | code-hoppern. Originally Australian and New Zealand. A sportsperson who moves from playing one form of football to another; esp. a rugby union player who switches to play rugby league, or vice versa.Sometimes in more general use with reference to other sports; cf. quot. 2009. ΚΠ 1998 Australian 10 Aug. (Sport section) 24 (headline) Funding problems mar code-hopper's return to grassroots... Negotiations get under way for his possible return from rugby league. 2009 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 30 July (Sport section) 83 Here are some of Australia's best code hoppers... Ric Charlesworth: Was one of Australia's greatest hockey players as well as a batsman and captain of the West Australian Sheffield Shield cricket team. 2018 Independent (Nexis) 9 May Fellow code-hopper Brad Thorn is believed to be keen to prise the controversial star away from the Waratahs, but there is no guarantee he stays in rugby union. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1998 |
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