单词 | fantasy football |
释义 | > as lemmasfantasy football attrib. orig. U.S. Designating a competition or league in which participants create imaginary teams by selecting players from an existing sports league, and score points according to the players' actual performances; esp. in fantasy league. Also preceding the name of the sport on which a particular competition is based, as fantasy football, fantasy cricket, fantasy baseball, etc. Cf. earlier rotisserie n. ΚΠ 1984 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 20 Mar. This is a fantasy league in which you can own and manage a major league team... The pennant winner is he-she who puts together the best team. 1991 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 28 Sept. 38 The Fantasy League.., who invite participants to pick their own imaginary teams from Football League players and go up or down according to their choices' real-life fortunes on the pitch. 1999 Wells Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 30 Sept. Following on from the success of fantasy cricket, which this week concluded with the presentation of prizes to top managers on Monday, Mid Somerset Newspapers' fantasy soccer competition is soon to return. 2001 Baseball Weekly (Electronic ed.) 31 Jan. I was looking forward to the Super Bowl mainly for two reasons: The squirrels of Pamplona..and the kickoff of the fantasy baseball preparation season. < as lemmas |
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