option year
North American Sport
noun
A one-year optional extension agreed when a player makes a fixed-term contract with a club, which may be taken up by the club when the original term is at an end.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in The Washington Post.
- new broom
- new-brooming
- New Brunswick
- new bug
- new build
- new-built
- Newburgh
- Newburyport
- Newby, Eric
- New Caledonia
- New Caledonian
- New Canadian
- New Carthage
- Newcastle
- Newcastle, 1st Duke of
- Newcastle coal
- Newcastle disease
- New Christian
- New Christian Right
- new chum
- new class
- new-coined
- new collar
- Newcombe, John
- new-come