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basketballdom

noun

Etymology

From basketball + -dom.

  1. derived from *bʰel-✻
  2. derived from *bʰélō✻
  3. inherited from *balluz✻
  4. derived from bǫllr
  5. inherited from *beall✻
  6. inherited from bal
  7. formed as basketball — “basket + ball”
  8. suffixed as basketballdom — “basketball + dom”

Definitions

  1. The world of basketball.

    • […] as frenzied youths raced up and down a hardwood floor, contesting furiously against one another for the greatest honor in basketballdom.

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