hully-gully
adj.— «They’d call it ball-hogging or trigger-happy basketball or a simple lack of patience. John Hutchcraft calls it a practice drill.…He’s heard words like “hully-gully” and “hogball” to describe how basketball is played at the rural Faulkner County school.”» —“Hutchcraft’s coaching system finds shooters and success” by Doug Crise Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock) Mar. 9, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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