lacrosse player
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- noun
- /ləˈkrɔs ˈpleɪər/
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jugador de lacrosse
- As a dedicated athlete, she trains every day to become a better lacrosse player.
- Duke lacrosse player
- college lacrosse player
- star lacrosse player
Examples
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"Being in the off-season for lacrosse right now, it's a lot of working out, running, and doing stick work on your own," said sophomore lacrosse player Chase Rogers.
Blog text (12) -
Coleman's pleasant dilemma is that he also happens to be one of the best lacrosse players in the country, too.
Blog text (11) -
You know, when I was in high school, I dated a lacrosse player.
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I mean, business is okay, and lacrosse is awesome, but, what am I gonna be, a professional lacrosse player?
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Well, I mean, business is okay, and lacrosse is awesome, but what am I gonna be, a pro lacrosse player?
Fiction book (1999) -
Trust me, as a former lacrosse player myself, there is nothing that would be athletically useful about either of those uniforms.
Blog text (6) -
US Lacrosse shares the concern of many lacrosse players, parents, and coaches that the college recruiting process is not structured or timed in the best interests of high school student-athletes.
Blog text (8) -
There had never been a feeling quite like that absolute mastery, being so in tune with the shimmer pattern that the numbers snapped into their places without conscious effort, the way a lacrosse player snatches the ball from the air.
Fiction book (1998) -
During the championship game, the lacrosse player scored the winning goal in the final seconds.
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He was recognized as the best lacrosse player on his team for three consecutive years.
Synonyms
A player who mainly tries to score goals in sports like lacrosse
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an athlete who plays lacrosse' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'lacrosse' (the sport) with 'player' (someone who plays), following a common noun+noun composition pattern. This construction is frequent across languages and in English (e.g., 'football player'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Lacrosse player comes from the name of an old Native American game played with a long netted stick. French visitors called that stick 'la crosse' ('the stick'), so a lacrosse player is simply someone who plays the game lacrosse, 'an athlete who plays lacrosse'.