airsoft
English
Etymology
Noun
airsoft (uncountable)
- A modern combat sport in which participants eliminate their opponents by hitting them with spherical non-metallic pellets launched from a type of air gun running compressed air or similar compressed gas (e.g., carbon dioxide).
Translations
a modern combat sport
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Anagrams
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English airsoft.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈeɾsoft/ [ˈeɾ.soft̪]
- Rhymes: -eɾsoft
- IPA(key): /ˈeɾsof/ [ˈeɾ.sof]
- Rhymes: -eɾsof
- Syllabification: air‧soft
Noun
airsoft m (uncountable)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.