Arc lamp (sport)
An arc lamp is a term from sports jargon (especially soccer jargon ) and describes a shot or throw in several ball sports such as soccer , handball and water polo in which the ball flies in a very high arc (often with a lot of spin ) to a teammate or into the goal . The term is misleadingly derived from the arc lamp , the arc of which has a smaller curvature.
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Wiktionary: Arc lamp - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arc lamp or banana flank ( Memento from December 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Bernd Brucker: What does the vulture know ?: Meaning and origin of idioms, Bassermann, 2009 [1]