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> I am guessing different sports have wildly expanded vocabulary You're looking for the phrase "term of art" https://www.lexico.com/definition/term_of_art htt
by SideburnsOfDoom 6y ago
> I am guessing different sports have wildly expanded vocabulary
You're looking for the phrase "term of art"
https://www.lexico.com/definition/term_of_art https://www.lexico.com/definition/term_of_art
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/term-of-art https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/term-of-...
e.g. if I say I'm going to "bounce the box", I don't mean that I will throw a cardboard container at the floor, I mean that I will reboot a computer. And the sysadmins will know exactly what I mean.