Definition of "lineswoman" []

• Sports A woman official in various court games whose chief duty is to call shots that fall out of bounds. (noun)
• Sports Either of two women officials in ice hockey who call icing and offsides, conduct face-offs, and call penalties. (noun)

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• "Rafter and Agassi called the lineswoman's decision to report the obscenity "unfair.""
• "Here's the queen of American tennis, unhinged about a terrible (bleep) foot-fault call, moving ominously toward the poor (bleep) lady who made it, while holding up her racket as if it were a samurai sword, barking about wanting to take the (bleep) tennis ball and force feed it to the lineswoman."
• "Toms was the first female to officiate in the Premier League, as a lineswoman."