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English Sidespin applied to the basketball by a player shooting a layup. Analogy taken from the cue sports term. Euro foul A foul committed by a defender who is between the opponent and the defending team's basket in the early phase of a fast break, with the intent of stopping play. [20] [21] Contrast with clear-path foul. Euro step
Nibbles, various small items of finger food; Nibbler, or nibblers, a tool for cutting sheet metal with minimal distortion; Nibbles Woodaway, alternate name of the Big Blue Bug, the giant termite mascot of New England Pest Control
The term wide boy is also often used in the same sense spliff * (slang) a hand-rolled cigarette containing a mixture of marijuana and tobacco, also joint. (Also used in US; joint, j, or blunt more widely used.) spotted dick an English steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit (usually currants), commonly served with custard. squaddie
colloquial past tense and past participle form of "sneak" (US standard and UK: sneaked) soccer used in the UK but the sport is mainly known as "football" (or fully as association football ); historically most common among the middle and upper classes in the UK (i.e. outside the game's traditional core support base); more common in Ireland to ...
A basket is a wicker container used for transporting many things from small animals to food products. Basket or baskets may also refer to: Baskets, the two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach; Basket (finance), an economic term for a collection of securities aggregated into a single product to allow for simultaneous trading
4–10: 1925–26 Doc Carlson 11–6: 1926–27 Doc Carlson 10–7: 1927–28: Doc Carlson 21–0: Helms Foundation National Champion Premo-Porretta National Champion 1928–29 Doc Carlson 16–5: 1929–30: Doc Carlson 23–2: Helms Foundation National Champion 1930–31 Doc Carlson 20–4: 1931–32 Doc Carlson 14–16
The term nibble originates from its representing "half a byte", with byte a homophone of the English word bite. [4] In 2014, David B. Benson, a professor emeritus at Washington State University, remembered that he playfully used (and may have possibly coined) the term nibble as "half a byte" and unit of storage required to hold a binary-coded decimal (BCD) digit around 1958, when talking to a ...
This article lists common abbreviations for grammatical terms that are used in linguistic interlinear glossing of oral languages [nb 1] in English. The list provides conventional glosses as established by standard inventories of glossing abbreviations such as the Leipzig Glossing rules, [2] the most widely known standard. Synonymous glosses are ...