sportsball

English

Etymology

sports +‎ ball. Based on football, basketball, baseball, etc.

Noun

sportsball (uncountable)

  1. (humorous, mildly derogatory, sometimes ironic) Any sport involving a ball; a sport that does not need to be specified or is not worth specifying.
    • 2020, Douglas A. Van Belle, A Novel Approach to Politics: Introducing Political Science through Books, Movies, and Popular Culture:
      To use a sportsball analogy that might be a metaphor, judicial oversight of executive institutions is roughly the equivalent of policing acts of foul play that could result in a player being ejected from the sportsball game, such as attempted decapitation […]
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.