See Also: Hand-Checking - Basketball(gambling)
Hand Check - Basketball(gambling)
checking account(dictionary)
Checking the market(money)
Checking the market(finance)
Overdraft checking account(money)
Check or Checking - Ice Hockey(gambling)
Checking Line - Ice Hockey(gambling)
Board-Checking - Ice Hockey(gambling)
Overdraft checking account(finance)

indescribable (iou) and Hand-Checking - Basketball (gambling)


indescribable (iou)



indescribable adjective & noun. L18.
[from IN-3 + DESCRIBABLE.]
A. adjective.
That cannot be described; indefinite, vague. L18.
Quiller-Couch A bald-headed man with hairy hands..and the indescribable air of a matrimonial agent.
That is beyond description; too beautiful, terrible, etc., to be adequately described. L18.
A. J. P. Taylor It gave me a decade of intense, almost indescribable misery.
b. noun. Something that cannot be described; formerly spec. in pl. (slang), trousers. L18.
indescriba'bility noun (a) the quality of being indescribable; (b) an indescribable thing: E19.
indescribableness noun (rare) L19.
indescribably adverb L18.

Hand-Checking - Basketball (gambling)


A violation in which a defender uses his hand to impede a player' s progress.