badminton

badminton
noun
  1. [mass noun]a game with rackets in which a shuttlecock is played back and forth across a net
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  2. The game resembles lawn tennis, but only the server can score, and the shuttlecock must not hit the ground. It was developed from the old game of battledore and shuttlecock in the 1870s by British officers in India
语源
  1. named after Badminton in SW England, country seat of the Duke of Beaufort
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