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lacrosse noun. M19.
[from French (le jeu de) la crosse (the game of) the hooked stick.]
A ball game (orig. played by N. American Indians) in which the ball is thrown, carried, and caught with a long-handled stick with a shallow net at the end, called the crosse.
Comb.: lacrosse-stick = CROSSE.