YIPS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Nervous tension that causes an athlete to fail (especially causes golfers to miss short putts)

Example:

to avoid the yips he changed his style of putting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("yips" is a kind of...):

stress; tenseness; tension ((psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense)

Present simple (third person singular) of the verb yip