close
Jump to content

Kempa-Trick

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

German

[edit]
BERJAYA

Etymology

[edit]

Kempa +‎ Trick, named after German handball player Bernhard Kempa (1920–2017), its inventor (1954).

Noun

[edit]

Kempa-Trick m (strong, genitive Kempa-Tricks, plural Kempa-Tricks)

  1. (handball) a combination where a player catches a pass in the air and immediately throws the ball during the jump on the goal
    • 2017 July 21, “Handball: Handball-Legende Bernhard Kempa ist tot”, in Die Zeit[1], sourced from sid, archived from the original on 9 January 2018:
      Die deutsche Handball-Legende Bernhard Kempa ist tot. Der zweimalige Feldhandball-Weltmeister und Erfinder des "Kempa-Tricks" verstarb am Donnerstag im Alter von 96 Jahren.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

[edit]

Further reading

[edit]