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Meaning of SPORT in English

That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

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    Meaning of SPORT in English

    • That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
    • Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
    • That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
    • Play; idle jingle.
    • Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
    • A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See Sporting plant, under Sporting.
    • A sportsman; a gambler.
    • To play; to frolic; to wanton.
    • To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
    • To trifle.
    • To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6.
    • To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.
    • To represent by any knd of play.
    • To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.
    • To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams.

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