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Meaning Of Sport
n.
That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
n.
Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
n.
That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play;
a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
n.
Play; idle jingle.
n.
Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing,
racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
n.
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.
n.
A sportsman; a gambler.
v. i.
To play; to frolic; to wanton.
v. i.
To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to
be given to betting, as upon races.
v. i.
To trifle.
v. i.
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.
v. t.
To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the
reciprocal pronoun.
v. t.
To represent by any knd of play.
v. t.
To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as,
to sport a new equipage.
v. t.
To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out
in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams.