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Athletic

nouncommon in dialogue

A player on the team Oakland Athletics.

noun

  1. 1

    A player on the team Oakland Athletics.

    Smith became an Athletic as a result of a pre-season trade.

  2. 2

    Variant of Athletic ClubShort for Athletic Club, a Spanish professional club more often known in English as Athletic Bilbao.

Forms

plural
Athletics
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).