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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Nervousness or tension that causes an athlete to fail to perform effectively, especially in missing short putts in golf.
Wiktionary
- n. informal A nervous condition which prevents a sportsman from playing properly; especially a condition which causes a golfer to miss an easy putt, or a tennis player to serve a double fault.
- n. Plural form of yip.
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yip.
WordNet 3.0
- n. nervous tension that causes an athlete to fail (especially causes golfers to miss short putts)
Etymologies
- Probably imitative of jerky motions caused by tension. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Most of us have heard the term yips in sports before, but what are they exactly?”
“Paddock is a craven Hyena to frightened to approach the Leonine beast except by cowardly yips from a safe distance.”
“Historically, most of the people who use long putters or belly putters are golfers who have mental demons—I hate to use the 'Y' word for that dreaded affliction known as the yips—or maybe have trouble bending over because of some physical ailment," said Mike Davis, the USGA's executive director, in an interview.”
“Unfortunately this left with him with what golfers call the yips, or perhaps the tweeps.”
“What wondrous words would we hear in place of little "yips" and "grrrs"?”
“Golfers have the "yips," a nervousness that leads to flubbed putts.”
The Wall Street Journal: Professional Baseball Faces Loaded Issue: Mental Health
“The piercing "yips" of cowboys meant nothing but an excess of spirits.”
“A golfer's "yips" are not down to putting pressure but are caused instead by a movement disorder, neurologists say.”
“yips" after fielding routine ground balls this season, to the list of concerned Yankees.”
“Tennessee, "a solitary driver meditates on the history that informs the light" yips "in Ralph Stanley's singing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yips’.
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golf related words
everything golf
airshot, albatross, backswing, baff, baffy, birdie, birdieing, bisque, blaster, bogey, brassy, brassie and 102 more...
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buzzwords
oddities of any kind
recuse, sipe, mullion, cairngorm, gormless, thole, drug, rutch, plonk, yips, gurry, reredos and 8 more...
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medical
medical
famotidine, periodontics, marthambles, acopic, exophthalmia, anosmia, prosopagnosia, yips, agita, dyspepsia, urticaria
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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Words to Try to Use in Colloquial Spe...
surquedry, equivocate, putative, turgid, congeries, irrefragable, quiddity, zaftig, flagitious, bloviate, perfidy, compendious and 227 more...
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i don't like cricket, i love it
Words without which cricket could not be.
keeper, stumper, bad light stopped..., wicket keeper, rain stopped play, sight screen, bodyline, leg bye, duck, duckworth-lewis, t20, one-day game and 245 more...
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srboisvert's Words
couverture, poffertjes, naif, endermatic, prepense, aspic, otalgia, curettage,, florid, piffling, pillock, mow and 164 more...
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Words of the Times
Words discovered while reading The New York Times, each with a citation from the paper.
testilying, ghost talk, apneist, solastalgia, izakaya, hooker, telectroscope, airflyte, phomance, bromhidrosis, stinky feet, cupping and 482 more...
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The List of Words
My list of words and the like.
contemptation, willow, longcat, shiny, watchan, esquivalience, kewl, amidoinitrite, lock pick, locksmith, half diamond, pattern interrupt and 71 more...
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M-W.com WotD 2003 Picks
punctilio, sitzmark, futurity, laodicean, anabasis, hector, plumply, argy-bargy, portmanteau, apodictic, hoary, indite and 38 more...
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nouns
tyke, twerp, scab, buoy, segue, quandary, vibe, frailty, apparition, malice, slumber, thespian and 44 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, Y
ytterbium, yammer, yips, yeesh, yardstick, yonder, yodel, yapper, yawl, yore, yeast, yoyo and 9 more...
Tweets
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john "Target panic is akin to the “yips�? in baseball and golf, when accomplished athletes can no longer make a simple throw to first base or stroke an easy putt."
The New York Times, The Secret Curse of Expert Archers, by Katie Thomas, August 1, 2008 Aug 1, 2008