pattersn.
/ˈpatəz/, U.S. /ˈpædərz/ University slang. Now rare.
Tennis.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [noun]
lawn tennis1874
tennis1878
pat-ball1890
patters1900
1900 Captain 4 26/1 In the Summer, a great form of ‘eccer’ is ‘patters’, a corruption of ‘patball’, i.e. tennis.
1912 A. F. Wilding On Court & Off v. 103 A tremendous amount of ‘patters’, as tennis is popularly called, is played at the University [sc. Cambridge University].
1934 B. Johnston Let. 30 Sept. in Lett. Home 1926–45 (1998) 143 We played some patters yesterday.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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