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While slang is usually inappropriate for formal settings, this assortment includes well-known expressions from that time, with some still in use today, e.g., blind date, cutie-pie, freebie, and take the ball and run. [2] These items were gathered from published sources documenting 1920s slang, including books, PDFs, and websites.
The following is a list of phrases from sports that have become idioms (slang or otherwise) in English. They have evolved usages and meanings independent of sports and are often used by those with little knowledge of these games. The sport from which each phrase originates has been included immediately after the phrase.
Some English words of Latin origin do not commonly take the Latin plural, but rather the regular English plurals in -(e)s: campus, bonus, and anus; while others regularly use the Latin forms: radius (radii) and alumnus (alumni). Still others may use either: corpus (corpora or corpuses), formula (formulae in technical contexts, formulas ...
"Bob" Cazet, President and Founder of Alumni Football USA, was the first person to see the potential of full-contact alumni football as a business. In 1984, encouraged by his high school coach, 3-time All-Pro Charlie Toogood, who was a two-way starter for the 1950 NFL World Champion Los Angeles Rams, Bob promoted, developed, and put on a game ...
The alumni game featured 30 former NHL players, with the NHL alumni team beating the Panthers alumni team 15-11 in a game that featured two 30-minute periods and a running clock.
Urban Dictionary states that “mid” is: "Used to insult or degrade an opposing opinion, labeling it as average or poor quality.” Read more about teen slang:
The word comes from Latin, meaning nurslings, pupils or foster children, derived from alere "to nourish". [1] The term is not synonymous with "graduates": people can be alumni without graduating, e.g. Burt Reynolds was an alumnus of Florida State University but did not graduate. The term is sometimes used to refer to former employees, former ...