sideline cut
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.31 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A penalty shot awarded against a player who runs over the sideline with the ball. The opponents take a free puck from where the ball crossed the line; side puck.
noun
A sudden change of direction and run for the sideline.
Example Sentences
- "In the first half we had a sideline cut, and as the ball was dropping in I could tell the Tipp player in front of me was gone up too early for it and wasn't going to get to it."
- "Tipp took a quick sideline cut, worked it up the field and engineered an overlap, Peter Kelly had to come, Séamus Callanan slipped the ball through to Bubbles, who drove it past Noley, who nearly stopped it."
- "In the sideline-and-up pass, both the receiver and the passer are faking the sideline cut."
- "Here, the receiver combines the sideline-flag pattern with a second sideline cut."
- "The l, 2, and 4 players run picks; the picks are set to free up the 1 player for a sideline cut."
- "The second passing option for O5 presents itself when O1 is unable to get open on the sideline cut."