(sports) In American football, an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
“Immediately, the owner rushed over to her, stumbling in his hurry.”
“Calm down. What's the hurry? The world's not going to end tomorrow.”
“May this little recess from the hurry of life enable me seriously to look into my heart, plan of life, and general conduct.”
hurrier
A person who hurries.
(Britain, obsolete) A young boy or girl employed in a coal mine to drag baskets or small wagons full of coal from the coal face where it was mined, up to the surface.
“There was a strange agitation in Prout's manner, a strange hurriedness in his tones.”
“The first four innings were completed within an hour, the teams' mutual hurriedness apparent.”
“The play has an unmediated heat, anger and bewilderment, like the scream of a wounded man surprised by injury, and the bluntness and hurriedness of someone who wants to say something important fast.”
