Yips vs Pips - What's the difference?
yips | pips |
(informal) A nervous condition which prevents a sportsman from playing properly; especially a condition which causes a golfer to miss an easy putt, or a tennis player to serve a double fault.
* 2013 , William Fotheringham, The Guardian , Monday 13 May 2013:
English plurals
(yip)
As nouns the difference between yips and pips
is that yips is (informal) a nervous condition which prevents a sportsman from playing properly; especially a condition which causes a golfer to miss an easy putt, or a tennis player to serve a double fault while pips is .As a verb yips
is (yip).yips
English
Noun
(wikipedia yips) (-)- Defining precisely why a professional cyclist might lose his touch on descents is as difficult as explaining a golfer's yips or a striker's sudden inability to find the net. It happens rarely, most famously in the early 1990s; the double world champion Gianni Bugno suffered from it and only rediscovered his "flow" after being made to listen to Mozart to calm his nerves.