[Ads-l] nutmeg (was: Re: rude: noisy? frolicksome?)

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Mon Sep 25 22:08:55 UTC 2017


> On Sep 25, 2017, at 2:38 PM, Andy Bach <afbach at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Interest[ing], possibly, is that the soccer maneuver, where you trick your
> defender in to sticking out a foot and then slip the ball between their
> legs and go around them, is called a "nutmeg."
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWEQs3XMMOo

from my blog:

6/25/15: nutmeg, the verb:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/06/25/nutmeg-the-verb/

arnold

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