| catcher |
in baseball, the player who squats behind the batter at home plate and catches balls thrown by the pitcher. [1/2 definitions] |
| cat's cradle |
a children's game in which a looped string is passed back and forth from the fingers of one player to those of the other so as to form a series of intricate patterns. |
| center |
in sports, a player occupying a middle position on a court or field. [1/9 definitions] |
| center field |
the position of the player whose primary function is to defend this area of the outfield. [1/2 definitions] |
| center fielder |
in baseball, the player who is stationed in center field when the other team is batting and whose primary function is to defend that territory. |
| charade |
(usu. pl.) a game in which each player must act out a word or phrase without speaking, while the other teammates must try to guess it. [1/2 definitions] |
| cheap shot |
in sports, an act of unnecessary roughness against a vulnerable player, esp. when intended to injure. [1/2 definitions] |
| chess1 |
a game of strategy for two people in which each player starts with a king and queen, two each of bishops, knights, and rooks, and eight pawns and in which the object is to trap the opponent's king. |
| conker |
(pl.) a game played with conkers attached to strings in which a player tries to break open an opponent's nut [1/2 definitions] |
| counterplayer |
combined form of player. |
| crossword |
a puzzle in which the player must guess words from numbered clues and enter them in the correspondingly numbered series of vertical or horizontal squares; crossword puzzle. |
| crossword puzzle |
a puzzle in which the player must guess words from numbered clues and enter them in the correspondingly numbered series of vertical or horizontal squares. |
| defenseman |
in the sports of hockey or lacrosse, a player or a team member who is assigned a position close to the goal in order to prevent the other team from scoring. |
| defensive back |
a player in American football, whose primary role is to deflect or intercept passes. [2 definitions] |
| disjunctive |
in grammar, of or denoting a word or phrase that is not syntactically part of the sentence in which it occurs, as "in my opinion" in "He is, in my opinion, the best baseball player ever". [1/5 definitions] |
| Don Budge |
U.S. tennis player who in 1938 was the first man to win the four tournaments that compose the grand slam of tennis (b.1915--d.2000). |
| double dribble |
in basketball, the illegal action of a player who either dribbles the ball with both hands or resumes dribbling after a complete stop. |
| draft |
to select as a player for a professional sports team. [1/18 definitions] |
| earphone |
the part of a telephone, radio set, music player or the like that fits over or into the ear for receiving sound. |
| eight ball |
a specific game in pool in which the player must pocket the eight ball last, and in which one loses if one sinks the eight ball prematurely. [1/2 definitions] |
| end |
in football, a player who lines up at one end of the line of scrimmage. [1/18 definitions] |