Cover Or Coverage: Preventing a player from gaining yards; in pass coverage, a defender follows a receiver to prevent him from catching a pass; in kick coverage, members of the kicking team try to prevent a long kick return.

 

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Oxymoron: An expression impossible in fact but not necessarily self-contradictory, such as john milton's description of hell as 'darkness visible' in book i of paradise lost.

Outside Director: A director of a company who is not an employee of that company and brings in outside experience to help make board decisions.

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Outbound Operator: A company that takes groups from a given city of country to another city or country.

Out In Order: Retiring the first 3 batters in an inning.