indoor lacrosse

noun

: box lacrosse

The rules for indoor lacrosse, also called box lacrosse, allow for a goalie and five field players who take short shifts, as in ice hockey. There is a 30-second shot clock and play is stopped infrequently.

—Marvin Pave, Boston Globe, 17 Feb. 2013

Word History

First Known Use

1922, in the meaning defined above

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