inbounds, v.

[Alice Faber]

Chris F. Waigl wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 14:35 -0500, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>
>> >From King Kaufman's column on Salon.com:
>> [snip]
>>
>> 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. No hits for
>> "inboundsing" or "inboundsed", of course.
>>
>> Whoops, spoke too soon-- here's a cite for "inboundsing":
>>
>> [snip]
>
> ----
> The Knights then got a generous buzzer-beater when they inbounced the
> ball to Civitello with 00.5 showing on the clock. She caught the ball,
> turned, and put up the shot - all in a half second - lifting Westbrook
> to a 26-14 lead at the break.
> PictoralGazette.com 01/26/2006
> http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16012039&BRD=1631&PAG=461&dept_id=31538&rfi=6
> ----
>
> Just saying, there's some opportunity for major mix-ups there. (Though I
> admit I have no idea what ball-field-players configuration inboundsing
> (or inbounding) refers to.
>

Well, let's just say that an inboundsing play involving bouncing would
be most unusual...

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