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[Aus] Sporting News (Launceston, Tasmania) 22 Nov. 3/1: The connections of the stable which shelters the son of Tostig followed the nag, and put a good ‘poultice’ on him [OED].
at poultice, n.
[US] Sporting News 19 Dec. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 9: Bridwell [...] will look like an amateur in the absence of the heady Dahlen.
at heady, adj.2
[US] Sporting News 17 June in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 98: The Giants have been getting their bumps right along.
at bumps, n.1
[US] Sporting News 17 Sept. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 224: The long-nosed rooters are crazy whenever young Herzog does anything noteworthy. Cries of ‘[...] Goot poy, Herzog!’ go up. [Ibid.] 8 Oct. 305: The longnosed rooters who have made the Polo Grounds [...] look like the market place in Jerusalem.
at long-nosed, adj.
[US] Sporting News (N.Y.) in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 9: If that isn’t sure enough quince, I will admit that McGraw has more brains than all the judges in America.
at quince, n.
[US] Sporting News 11 June in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 93: The club had asked for waivers on him. At first McGraw came in for a roast because of this.
at roast, n.1
[US] Sporting News 27 Feb. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 23: McGinnity began to hit the toboggan in 1906 [...] Last season his efforts at times were painful.
at toboggan, n.
[US] Sporting News 9 Sept. p. 35 q. in Spivey ‘If Only You Were White’ 263: ‘I can throw hard enough to get a nothing hitter like you out any day’.
at nothing, adj.
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