sports cap
Britishnoun
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a hat designed for sports or to look sporty
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a special top for a bottle, designed to aid drinking without spilling
Example Sentences
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The Klean Kanteen is the easiest to clean of the bottles we tested and can be used with a sippy top, sports cap, or screw-on top.
From Slate • Dec. 7, 2018
The sports cap produced some ridiculous situations, such as when the IOC removed wrestling from the Summer Olympics program in February 2013 only to add it back in as a “new” sport seven months later.
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2014
The wrestling debacle, however frustrating, was ultimately a very good thing: It took such an over-the-top screw-up to kill the sports cap.
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2014
A sports cap the size of a manhole cover jammed down on his great shock of white hair, the American traveler stood by China's Great Wall and sang Danny Boy.
From Time Magazine Archive
He scratched his head under his porringer of a "sports" cap, looked round the big four-windowed room, and said, "Good light—south and east though—what?"
From The Debit Account by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
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