noun play; idle jingle.
2. sport ·noun a sportsman; a gambler.
3. sport ·vt to represent by any knd of play.
4. sport ·vi to trifle.
5. sport ·noun mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
6. sport ·noun that which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
7. sport ·vt to exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.
8. sport ·vi to practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
9. sport ·vi to play; to frolic; to wanton.
10. sport ·noun that with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
11. sport ·noun diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, ·esp. when money is staked.
12. sport ·vt to divert; to amuse; to make merry;
used with the reciprocal pronoun.
13. sport ·vt to give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner;
with off; as, to sport off epigrams.
14. sport ·vi to assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species;
said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. ·see sport, ·noun, 6.
15. sport ·noun a plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. ·see sporting plant, under sporting.