inbounds, v.

[Laurence Horn]

>  >From King Kaufman's column on Salon.com:
>
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>http://www.salon.com/sports/col/kaufman/2006/03/20/monday/index1.html
>Players diving out of bounds, getting one finger on the ball and
>calling timeout. Players diving for loose balls and calling timeout
>before they even get possession, hoping for the best. Players unable
>to inbounds the ball calling timeout. It's ridiculous.
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>
>I thought "inbounds" might simply be a typo for "inbound", but "to
>inbounds the ball" gets about 180 hits on Google (with another 32 on
>Google Groups). So it's not an isolated usage.

I've been hearing this for years in sportscasterese; probably much
rarer in written accounts than in play-by-play...

>No hits for
>"inboundsing" or "inboundsed", of course.
>
...and this is indeed rarer, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear it,
at least the present participle.  ("They had to call a time-out
because they were having trouble in-boundsing the ball.")  I'll
listen for it.

L

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