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sporting door

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English

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Etymology

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See sport one's oak.

Noun

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sporting door (plural sporting doors)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution.
    Synonym: oak

References

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  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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