单词 | bench-clearing |
释义 | > as lemmasbench-clearing bench-clearing n. North American Sport (chiefly Baseball) (a) n. the leaving of the bench by all the players, usually to engage in a brawl; an instance of this; in early use also, the sending of a large number of players to the penalty box by the referee or umpire. (b) adj. designating an event, esp. a brawl, in which all the players leave the bench. ΚΠ 1949 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl.-Times 22 Aug. 13/4 Umpire Dolton gave the bench-clearing order. 1953 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 Dec. 27/3 A last-minute shambles of penalties and bench-clearing by the referee following a mass outbreak on the ice. 1976 Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 24 Jan. 6/3 Probably the biggest problem facing the sport is violence. Common occurrences used to include stick-swinging fights and bench-clearing brawls. 1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 49/3 Bench-clearing—in any sport whether the players leave a baseball dugout or the bench in any other sport—has no place in any game. 1998 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Sentinel (Electronic ed.) 6 June The bench-clearing brawls were an embarrassment for major-league baseball. 1998 Telegram & Gaz. (Worcester, Mass.) (Nexis) 24 Aug. d1 A game spiced by two players getting hit by pitches and one of those typical milling-around, no-fighting bench-clearings. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 14 Oct. c21/1 The bench-clearing incident in Game 3 on Saturday. < as lemmas |
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