sightscreen
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sightscreen (plural sightscreens)
- (cricket) A large screen, at each end of a cricket field, coloured to provide visual contrast to the cricket ball, to aid the batsman in seeing its movement through the air.
- 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 24:
- The batsman swung and thwacked it behind him over the sight-screens.