lacrosse
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- noun
- /ləˈkrɔs/
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lacrosse
- Coach Jackson wants new turf for his lacrosse field.
- play lacrosse
- a lacrosse team
- lacrosse players
My son plays soccer and and lacrosse, and he's OK.
- My son plays soccer and and lacrosse, and he's OK.
- And man, this is the guy that played lacrosse at West Point.
- You're playing with lacrosse sticks and you're playing basketball, but with a wiffle ball.
- But I went to do a little media work for my friend Ty for his lacrosse company.
- We've seen this in lacrosse, we've seen it in soccer, and we've seen it here in basketball, in volleyball.
- And he was the captain of the lacrosse team, which in that kind of like lacrosse obsessed environment was like icon status, right?
Examples
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Tickets for next week's lacrosse final are available in the admissions office.
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But when I got to high school, I stopped playing lacrosse because our school didn't have a team.
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Brother: You coming to my lacrosse game on Friday?
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Okay, what is the lacrosse team doing on our field?
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He just happens to be on the lacrosse team.
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He's captain of the lacrosse team.
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Camille had never played lacrosse before, but Pete had.
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Oliver plays lacrosse, doesn't he?
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She plays tennis and lacrosse.
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Tickets for next week's lacrosse final are available in the admissions office.
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Etymology
Lacrosse got its name from French settlers who watched Native American players using a long, curved stick and called it la crosse, which means 'the curved stick'. That's why the sport is named after the stick players use to catch, carry, and throw the ball.