lacrosse ball
- noun
- /ləˈkrɔs bɔl/
:
pelota de lacrosse
- She carefully covered the lacrosse ball with the team logo and prepared for the big game on Saturday.
Examples
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If a lacrosse ball flies into a soccer practice, that's pretty dangerous.
Blog text (31) -
He whips the lacrosse ball at the wall.
Fiction book (1999) -
Oz bounces the lacrosse ball off a locker, catching it again.
Fiction book (1999) -
He bounces his lacrosse ball off the floor, in rhythm, keeping time.
Fiction book (1999) -
In the backyard, the kids took turns throwing a lacrosse ball to each other, enjoying the sunny afternoon.
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During practice, the coach emphasized the importance of accurate passing with the lacrosse ball to improve their skills.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a small rubber ball used in the sport of lacrosse' is directly derived from combining 'lacrosse' (the sport) with 'ball' (a round play object). The sport+ball compounding pattern is highly regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer this meaning.
Etymology
The noun lacrosse ball comes from the name of the game and its stick. When French visitors saw Native American players using a long, curved stick, they called the game la crosse, meaning 'the stick', so the small rubber ball used in that game became the lacrosse ball, meaning 'a ball used in lacrosse'.
