Sport Definition–noun | 1. | an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc. | | 2. | a particular form of this, esp. in the out of doors. | | 3. | diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime. | | 4. | jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously. | | 5. | mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him. | | 6. | an object of derision; laughingstock. | | 7. | something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything. | | 8. | something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc. | | 10. | Informal. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well. | | 11. | Informal. a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler. | | 12. | Informal. a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant. | | 13. | Biology. an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation. | | 14. | Obsolete. amorous dalliance. | –adjective | 15. | of, pertaining to, or used in sports or a particular sport. | | 16. | suitable for ou
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tdoor or informal wear: sport clothes. | –verb (used without object) | 17. | to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation. | | 18. | to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal. | | 19. | to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport. | | 20. | to trifle or treat lightly: to sport with another's emotions. | | 21. | to mock, scoff, or tease: to sport at suburban life. | –verb (used with object) | 23. | to pass (time) in amusement or sport. | | 24. | to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often fol. by away). | | 25. | Informal. to wear, display, carry, etc., esp. with ostentation; show off: to sport a new mink coat. | | 26. | Archaic. to amuse (esp. oneself). | —Idiom | 27. | sport one's oak. oak (def. 5). | |
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Betting Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to wager with (something or someone). | –verb (used without object) | 2. | to make a wager: Do you want to bet? | –noun | 3. | a pledge of a forfeit risked on some uncertain outcome; wager
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: Where do we place our bets? | | 4. | that which is pledged: a two-dollar bet. | | 5. | something that is bet on, as a competitor in a sporting event or a number in a lottery: That horse looks like a good bet. | | 6. | an act or instance of betting: It's a bet, then? | | 7. | a person, plan of action, etc., considered as being a good alternative; choice: Your best bet is to sell your stocks now. | —Idiom | 8. | you bet! Informal. of course! surely!: You bet I'd like to be there! | |
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Odd Definition–adjective | 1. | differing in nature from what is ordinary, usual, or expected: an odd choice. | | 2. | singular or peculiar in a strange or eccentric way: an odd person; odd manners. | | 3. | fantastic; bizarre: Her taste in clothing was rather odd. | | 4. | leaving a remainder of 1 when divided by 2, as a number (opposed to even ): Numbers like 3, 15, and 181 are odd numbers. | | 5. | more or less, esp. a little more (used in combination with a round number): I owe three hundred-odd dollars. | | 6. | being a small amount in addition to what is counted or specified: I have five gross and a few odd dozens. | | 7. | being part of a pair, set, or series of which the rest is lacking: an odd glove. | | 8. | remaining after all others are paired, grouped, or divided into equal numbers or parts: Everybody gets two hamburgers and I get the odd one. | | 9. | left over after all others are used, consumed, etc. | | 10. | (of a pair) not matching: Do you know you're wearing an odd pair of socks? | | 11. | not forming part of any particular group, set, or class: to pick up odd bits of information. | | 12. | not regular, usual, or full-time; occasional; casual: odd jobs. | | 13. | out-of-the-way; secluded: a tour to the odd parts of the Far East. | | 14. | Mathematics. (of a function) having a sign that changes when the sign of each independent variable is changed at the same time. | –noun | 15. | something that is odd. | | 16. | Golf. | a. | a stroke more than the opponent has played. | | b. | British. a stroke taken from a player's total score for a hole in order to give him or her odds. | | |
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