ho-d
n.— «Frisbees and paragliders competed for airspace last Thursday as the Ketchum Ultimate Frisbee League continued round robin play on the upper fields of Atkinson Park.…The crowd also went wild when Chaka John Schenk of KB’s executed what must have been his one-thousandth perfect ho-d, which is short for horizontal defensive move.» —“Some crowded airspace at Atkinson Park” Idaho Mountain Express (Ketchum) Aug. 1, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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