Usually means: Displayed or wore something proudly.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. sported: Merriam-Webster
  2. sported: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sported: Vocabulary.com
  4. sported: Wordnik
  5. sported: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sported: Wiktionary
  7. sported: Dictionary.com
  8. sported: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Sported: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Sported: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. sported: FreeDictionary.org
  12. sported: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sported: Legal dictionary

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  1. sported: Encyclopedia

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  1. sported: Medical dictionary

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  1. sported: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (SPORT)

noun:  (countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
noun:  (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
noun:  (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
noun:  (archaic) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
noun:  (archaic) Mockery, making fun; derision.
noun:  (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
noun:  (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, or fishing.
noun:  (biology, botany, zoology, countable) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
noun:  (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
noun:  (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
noun:  (obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.
noun:  (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
noun:  Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
noun:  (archaic) Play; idle jingle.
verb:  (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
verb:  (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
verb:  (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
verb:  (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
verb:  (transitive) To represent by any kind of play.
verb:  To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
verb:  To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To close (a door).
noun:  Acronym of Strategic Partnership On REACH Testing.
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