kopáč
Czech
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editkopáč m anim
- digger, navvy (laborer on a civil engineering project)
- 2013, Vojtěch Bednář with et al., Sociální vztahy v organizaci a jejich management[1], Praha: Grada Publishing, →ISBN, page 86:
- Dvě skupiny kopáčů hloubily kanál, když jedna z nich narazila na mimořádně tvrdou hlínu.
- Two groups of navvies were digging a drain, when one of them came to extraordinarily hard soil.
- (rugby) kicker
- 2015 September 26, “Kopáč Biggar zářil a zajistil výhru Walesu v dramatické bitvě nad Anglií”, in Česká televize[2]:
- Hlavní hvězdou utkání se stal kopáč Walesu Dan Biggar, který zaznamenal 23 bodů a rozhodl o triumfu svého celku trestným kopem z padesáti metrů.
- The main star of the match was Welsh kicker Dan Biggar, who made 23 points and decided about the triumph of his team by a 50-metre penalty kick.
- (dated) footballer
- Synonyms: (ironically) kopálista; (dated) hráč kopané; fotbalista
- 1982, Robert Bakalář with Jan Kotrba, Poločasy života[3], Praha: Naše vojsko, page 19:
- „Před válkou to býval nějakej kopáč,“ slýchával od fanoušků.
- “What a footballer he used to be before the war,” he sometimes heard from fans.
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- groundbreaker (hand tool for breaking ground)
- 1896 or 1897, Karel Klostermann, “IV.”, in Skláři[4], Praha: Jos. R. Vilímek:
- Kde kdo chopil se kopáče, rýče a lopaty.
- Everybody grasped a groundbreaker, spade or shovel.
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