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- verb sports To show someone a
yellow card
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Examples
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The web site reports that a referee imposed a yellow-card diving penalty on the dying athlete as he collapsed to the ground.
Goran Tunjic CARDED For Fatal Heart Attack During Soccer Game 2010
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I can yellow-card those who whine and complain too much.
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"But a dive is itself an offense, and a yellow-card one, so the peer pressure against cheating would actually increase and the referee's job would become easier," Barclay argues.
World Cup penalty shootouts? There's a better way to break a tie. 2010
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A yellow-card foul was called on Ghana's Jonathan Mensah against American Clint Dempsey to set up the kick.
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A yellow-card foul was called on Ghana's Jonathan Mensah against American Clint Dempsey to set up the kick.
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Mike Klukowski recieved a yellow-card for a smart defensive foul, while captain Paul Stalteri, who had a pretty good game, recieved a yellow for what could be termed as diving from the Salvadoreans.
Canada picks up a second clean sheet against El Sal Andrew Bates 2009
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I can yellow-card those who whine and complain too much.
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But Germany is depleted after yellow-card fiasco with Cameroon.
Mark V. Mike 2007
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A mainstay of the Olympique Marseille club in the French professional league's first division, Swierczewski received his second yellow-card penalty in the Portugal rout and is suspended for the U.S. match.
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Wondolowski shed Vancouver's Jeb Brovsky, a midfielder pressed into duty at left back as Jordan Harvey served a one-match suspension for yellow-card accumulation, before rising to meet Jacob Peterson's free kick from wide on the right wing.
The Seattle Times 2011
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