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bully-off
noun
- a method by which a game is restarted after a stoppage. Two opposing players stand with the ball between them and alternately strike their sticks together and against the ground three times before trying to hit the ball
verb
- intr, adverb to restart play after a stoppage with a bully-off
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bully-off1
C19: perhaps from bully scrum in Eton football; of unknown origin
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Example Sentences
At exactly eleven, the center forwards, Blossom and Veronica, began the bully-off.
From Project Gutenberg
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