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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
yips
Verb[edit]
yips
- third-person singular simple present indicative of yip
References[edit]
- OED 2nd edition 1989