TOP

Definition of chest verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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/
jump to other results
  1. 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.
    Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2
    Word OriginOld English cest, cyst, related to Dutch kist and German Kiste, based on Greek kistē ‘box’.
perspective
noun
 
 
From the Word list
Oxford 3000
B2
Oxford Learner's Dictionaries Word of the Day