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1. AC in A, n. View full entry 1868
...athletic (or athletics) club....
2. aet in A, n. View full entry 1971
...after extra time....
3. AFC in A, n. View full entry 1970
...American Football Conference; cf. NFCN1....
4. AFC in A, n. View full entry 1879
...Association Football club....
5. AFL in A, n. View full entry 1989
...Australian Football League, the major professional league for Australian Rules football....
6. AL in A, n. View full entry 1908
...American League; cf. NLN1....
7. ATB in A, n. View full entry 1983
...all-terrain bike....
8. ab, n.2 View full entry 1956
...An abdominal muscle; = abdominal3. Usu. in pl....
9. ab, n.2 View full entry 1978
...With first element in singular form, as ab exercises, ab workout, etc....
10. ab, n.2 View full entry 1994
...With first element in plural form, as abs exercises, abs workout, etc....
11. aboard, adv. and prep. View full entry 1931
...Baseball. On base....
12. above-ground pool in above ground, adv. and adj. View full entry 1957
...an outdoor swimming pool of which no part is below ground level, usually in the grounds of a private residence; cf. in-groundin....
13. abseil, n. View full entry 1923
...A descent made by abseiling....
14. abseil, v. View full entry 1908
...intr. To descend a rock face or other near-vertical surface using a rope fixed at a higher point and coiled round the body or passed through a descendeur, the speed of...
15. abseiler in abseil, v. View full entry 1981
...a person who abseils....
16. abseiling, n. View full entry 1936
...The action of abseil; the sport or activity in which this technique is practised....
17. accelerator, n. View full entry 1819
...An early form of bicycle: = dandy-horse (also called draisine, hobby, hobby-horse, velocipede)....
18. account, n. View full entry 1846
...Sport. to open one's account: to begin one's scoring tally; (also) to register one's first victory. Cf. 2a(d)....
19. account, v. View full entry 1848
...colloq. (orig. Hunting). To be credited with the death of (esp. one or more of a group); to put to death, kill. Also more generally: to dismiss, demolish; to...
20. ace, n.1 and adj. (and int.) View full entry 1819
...A point scored in any of various sports, esp. fives, badminton, and (formerly) baseball....
