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Yips

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






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"Yips" Quotes from Famous Books



... killed whilst asleep. One of the things we have every night in the show is an Injun dance, and Looey and I sings what the doctor calls the Siwash war chant, whirling round and round each other, and making licks at each other with our tommyhawks, and letting out sudden wild yips in the midst of that chant. That night I like to of killed Looey with that tommyhawk, I was feeling so good. If it had been a real one, instead of painted-up wood, I would of killed Looey, the lick I give ...
— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis



Words linked to "Yips" :   tenseness, stress, tension



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