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yips

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4 lettersPart of speech nounSorted ipsyStarts with YEnds with S0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. nervous tension that causes an athlete to fail (especially causes golfers to miss short putts)

Used in a sentence

  • His office is a baseball park and he is a pitcher for the N.Y. Mets—a job guaranteed to give anyone a good case of after-hours yips.
  • Bracing as all this may be to the President, it gives his security and logistical forces the yips.
  • Golfers may be surprised to learn that the yips, in one form or another, occur in a wide variety of other sports and even in other non-athletic walks of life and work.

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