chest
verb/tʃest/
/tʃest/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they chest | /tʃest/ /tʃest/ |
| he / she / it chests | /tʃests/ /tʃests/ |
| past simple chested | /ˈtʃestɪd/ /ˈtʃestɪd/ |
| past participle chested | /ˈtʃestɪd/ /ˈtʃestɪd/ |
| -ing form chesting | /ˈtʃestɪŋ/ /ˈtʃestɪŋ/ |
- chest something (+ adv./prep.) (in football (soccer)) to control the ball using your chest
- He chested the ball down, swivelled and volleyed it into the net.
Word OriginOld English cest, cyst, related to Dutch kist and German Kiste, based on Greek kistē ‘box’.
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