quidditch

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of Quidditch.

   We can disinfect headsets and teach a group of fifth graders how to play library quidditch.

   2001, Virginia A. Walter, Children & Libraries: Getting It Right

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   The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the keenly anticipated Florida theme park, will open in the spring and allow visitors to tour Hogwarts, buy quidditch gear and drink butterbeer.

   2009 September 16, Brooks Barnes, “Universal Lifts the Veil on a Harry Potter Park”, in New York Times

2. broadlyuncountableMuggle quidditch

alternative quidditch

1. uncountableA fictional ball game played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals.

   Whichever team gets Yegor holds the edge. This is like Quidditch in hell.

   2007, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

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   Maybe you wish your parents were smarter or funnier or richer or better looking, but you might as well wish for a spot on the local Quidditch team.

   2003, “Universal Lifts the Veil on a Harry Potter Park”, in New York Times

   Turn to the south, and you see the Central Acropolis, a five-story palace where the nobles might have sat to watch plaza ceremonies or the famous Quidditch-like Mayan ball games.

   2007 December 16, Ethan Todras-Whitehill, “In Tikal, Temples in the Mist”, in New York Times

   Eton’s playing fields are famous, not least because of the Eton Field Game. It’s played only there. It’s sort of like Quidditch for real people.

   2010 May 8, Brooks Barnes, “Wait, Wait... Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio