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early bath

early bath noun: the condition of being shown a red card in soccer.

Noun

early bath (plural early baths)

  1. (euphemistic, idiomatic) The condition of being shown a red card in soccer.
    • That was a horrible tackle: he can expect an early bath for that.

Forms of early bath

pluralearly baths

Origin of early bath

From the belief that players bathe together after a match, so if a player gets sent off, he or she can get into the bath before the other players.

Questions about early bath

What does early bath mean?
Early bath means the condition of being shown a red card in soccer.
What part of speech is early bath?
Early bath is a noun.
What is the plural of early bath?
The plural of early bath is early baths.

Words near early bath in the dictionary

  1. early
  2. early adopter
  3. early adopters
  4. early and late
  5. Early Assamese
  6. early bath
  7. early baths
  8. early bells
  9. early binding
  10. early bird
  11. early bird special

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