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handballer

American  
[hand-bawl-er] / ˈhændˌbɔl ər /

noun

plural

handballers
  1. a handball player, especially a member of a professional team.


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It’s a lifestyle that has evolved from dreams of a post-Navy career as a professional handballer and features side gigs that range from putting ads on magnets to installing a roof on a farmhouse.

From Washington Times • Jan. 16, 2017

The next stop, not much farther east, was a KFC in the town of Selfoss, home to the team handballer Þórir Ólafsson and the grave of Bobby Fischer.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 9, 2015

“But in the winter,” said Raymond Soriano, 32, a devoted handballer, “the best players all run into each other here, so they have to play each other.”

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2010

Overweight cops are suspended by Schrotel, himself a trim handballer.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Casey retired, there was no handballer in the U.S. who could draw a crowd.

From Time Magazine Archive

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