yips
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English
Etymology
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Noun
yips (uncountable)
- (informal) A nervous condition which prevents a sportsperson from playing properly; especially a condition which causes a golfer to miss an easy putt, or a tennis player to serve a double fault.
- 2013 May 13, William Fotheringham, The Guardian:
- Defining precisely why a professional cyclist might lose his touch on descents is as difficult as explaining a golfer's yips or a striker's sudden inability to find the net. It happens rarely, most famously in the early 1990s; the double world champion Gianni Bugno suffered from it and only rediscovered his "flow" after being made to listen to Mozart to calm his nerves.
See also
Noun
yips
Verb
yips
- third-person singular simple present indicative of yip
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989