basketballn.
/ˈbɑːskᵻtbɔːl/, /ˈbaskᵻtbɔːl/, U.S. /ˈbæskətˌbɔl/, /ˈbæskətˌbɑl/ A game played indoors or out of doors with a large inflated ball, which is thrown from player to player, the object being to score by casting it into one's opponents' goal, a basket fixed ten feet above the ground at each end of the field of play.
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1892 J. Naismith in Triangle (U.S.) Jan. 144 (heading) Basket Ball. We present to our readers a new game of ball.
1893 Birkenhead News 9 Dec. 7/5 Interesting Basket-Ball Match.
1898 Daily News 8 June 5/2 Vassar, Syracuse, Cornell, Wellesley, and Rosemary Hall have each their teams of girl basket-ball players.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 1 May 7/1 A game of ‘basket ball’, played by ten over-heated and dishevelled ladies in—bloomers!
1926 Encycl. Brit. New Suppl. I. 337/2 Basketball has become the national indoor game of the United States.
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ˈbasketˌballer n.
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1898 Los Angeles Times 12 Apr. 7/1 Berkeley basket-ballers are the right sort.
2003 J. Lethem Fortress of Solitude i. xvi. 255 He stooped from a basketballer's height, his enormous frame draped in a dust-colored suit and folded awkwardly behind the table.
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