serve
verb [I or T] (HIT BALL) /sɜːv/
/sɝːv/ Definition
› in sports such as tennis, to hit the ball to the other player as a way of starting the game: Whose turn is it to serve? That's the third ace you've served this game.Tennis and racket sports
(Definition of serve verb (HIT BALL) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
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Synonyms and related words:
- -seeded suffix (SPORT)
- backhand noun
- break noun (SPORT)
- break point noun
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- double noun (TWO PLAYERS)
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