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la·crosse (lə krôs)

noun

a game, similar to field hockey, in which two teams of ten men or twelve women each, using long-handled, pouched rackets, try to throw a small rubber ball into the opponents' goal: the game was first played by North American Indians

Etymology: CdnFr < Fr la, the + crosse, a crutch, hockey stick < ML crucia: see crosier

lacrosse Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • play: He started playing lacrosse at the age of nine, at Rochdale LC.

Preposition: at

  • level: I played lacrosse at county level and raced in the England Schools Nationals for skiing, and came 24th.

Adjective modifier

  • good: Suddenly, we were not going to get by with three days of good lacrosse.
  • major: I never thought major league lacrosse 's root structure underpinning.
  • mixed: At the moment university mixed lacrosse is organized by the Mixed Lacrosse League ( MLL ).

Modifies a noun

  • stick: Maybe that hockey stick would be more of a lacrosse stick or something.
  • match: Thirteen former pupils played in a lacrosse match against the School's first XII.
  • team: A teddy hall mixed lacrosse team is being put together for cuppers, which is the first saturday of Trinity term.
  • player: The focus is on the development of young, talented lacrosse players who aspire to national representation.
  • club: The mixed lacrosse club has enjoyed another highly successful season.
  • squad: Emily Fozard: selected for the North of England A lacrosse squad Eleanor Sayers: selected for the North of England B lacrosse squad.

Noun used with modifier

  • league: I never thought major league lacrosse 's root structure underpinning.
  • college: We have continued to be a force to be reckoned with in college lacrosse.

Possessives

  • woman: Scottish Lacrosse Association Clubs listing, fixtures and events for men's and women's lacrosse.
lacrosse Quotes

  I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.

—Williams, Robin

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