handball court
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3.1
- noun
- /ˈhændbɔl kɔrt/
:
cancha de balonmano
- One hot afternoon, I parked my bike on a high, grassy knoll overlooking a handball court in Forest Park.
Examples
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Oh, a little tiny guest house with a handball court and a little, little swimming pool for fleas or something?
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We even got a handball court and a sauna.
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I saw your bit on the handball court... you know, talking about being ready.
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Got you 7 points off your dad first time you ever set foot... on a handball court with him, huh?
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It's a locker room and a handball court.
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I kicked his ball way behind the handball court, and when he went around to get it, I followed him, then I punched him.
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We looked over by the handball court and saw the high schoolers smoking there.
Fiction book (1997) -
Walkin' off that handball court... dumping game after game to your fucking old man.
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I sat down on the steps of the handball court, and out of the corner of my eye, I could see the shack at the back.
Fiction book (1997) -
Let's meet at the handball court after school for practice.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'handball' (the sport) + 'court' (an area for playing a sport), yielding 'a court used for playing handball'. This straightforward noun–noun compound follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Handball court comes from the clear image of players hitting a handball with their hands inside a marked court or against a wall. So the name means the 'place' where people play handball.