a method by which a game is restarted after a stoppage. Two opposing players stand with the ball between them and alternately strike their sticks together and against the ground three times before trying to hit the ball
verbbully off
2. (intr, adverb)
to restart play after a stoppage with a bully-off
Often shortened to: bully. Compare face-off
Word origin
C19: perhaps from bully scrum in Eton football; of unknown origin