Slang of the Day February 25, 2021

💠yips

✍🏾Meaning

(in phrase the yips) nervous tension that causes mistakes

❕For example

🔺Tiger Woods never seems to get the yips. He always looks calm, even when he's playing a very important shot.

🔺A champion golfer needs to know how to avoid getting the yips.

▫️Note

This word is always used with "the", as in "the yips", and is usually used in relation to sport, especially golf.

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