English▸ noun [mass noun] a team game in which the ball is thrown, carried, and caught with a long-handled stick having a curved L-shaped or triangular frame at one end with a piece of shallow netting in the angle. Lacrosse was originally played by some North American Indigenous peoples.
– ORIGIN mid 19th century: from French (le jeu de) la crosse ‘(the game of) the hooked stick’. Compare with crosse.