lombardi-esque
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having the style or manner of one named Lombardi, especially of Vince Lombardi (1913–1970), American football coach.
adj
Resembling or like the Lombardi trophy.
Example Sentences
- "Some of the more bizarre rankings include the top 10 coaching lessons small-college coach Bill Van Gundy laid upon his sons, Jeff and Stan—with No. 5 being a Lombardi-esque “Winning is all-important.”"
- "Bowerman's Lombardiesque observation that “Nobody every remembers number two” became a battle cry at Nike after Reebok became number one,[…]"
- "Could this be Vince, the coach who'd sing / That winning was the only thing? / Lombardiesque, this spa of pumps? / Where food is but a pile of lumps? / If this were Green Bay, Vince would growl / A bathroom without paper towel?"
- "Players were still passing out “Gator Bowl Champions” hats and celebrating with their Lombardi-esque trophy when Muschamp, speaking to the roughly 10,000 fans lingering in the stands, didn't fully buy into the revelry."
- "In the past, each Super Bowl has had its own logo. But this year the NFL is switching to a generic logo based on the Lombardi Trophy. […] while the Super Bowl may be the biggest event on the planet, the Lombardi Trophy still ain't no Stanley Cup, no matter how many Lombardi-esque logos the NFL comes up with."
Etymology
From Lombardi + -esque.