basketball-player

plural basketball-players

1. alternativeAlternative form of basketball player.

   Basketball-player Mitchell Frederick, junior from Corydon Central, led the Mighty Oaks at regional, shooting 77-78—155 to finish in a four-way tie for fifth place.

   2017 October 3, Pete Swanson, “OCU women heading to NCCAA Championship”, in Princeton Daily Clarion, volume 171, number 37, Princeton, Ind., page B3, columns 3–4

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   How frequently do we now see in the daily papers in big type, that So-and-so at such a college is a professional ball-player and that So-and-so at another college is a professional basketball-player.

   1902 June 2, James E[dward] Sullivan, quotee, “[Comment on Sport.] Sullivan’s Advice to young Athletes.”, in Buffalo Express, volume LVII, number 119, Buffalo, N.Y., page 7, column 2

   The fashion was to create live, on-set transformations of man into wolf or to use a sophisticated mix of puppetry and unusually-shaped humans in suits (in some scenes, ET was played by the midget Tamara de Treux, while the alien in Alien was the very tall basketball-player, Bolaji Badejo).

   1994 August 18, Kim Newman, “Kim Newman on the hi-tech wizardry: Move over Mr Monster”, in Peter Preston, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 8–9