ONLC Background

Lax [ laks ] [Origin: 1978-81; Baltimore, Maryland] - noun
Slang term used to abbreviate the sport of Lacrosse.

Laxer [laks-ER]
1. Nickname or slang word used to describe someone who plays the sport of Lacrosse frequently.
2. A person who lives and dies for the sport of Lacrosse.
3. A person who generally has long hair or "flow" coming out of the back of their Lacrosse helmet.
4. A person who talks about the sport of Lacrosse “Lax talk” with other Lacrosse players "Laxers" anytime the opportunity arises (Co-Ed College parties included).
5. Someone who considers himself cultured, yet their only news consumption consists of checking lax.com to get up to date poorly written news articles concerning the Lacrosse world at large.
6. Someone who believes that off season “cross- training” should involve drinking heavily and playing in summer league Lacrosse games.

Buckeye Laxer [Buck-I, Laks-ER] [origin 1988-89, Columbus, Ohio] - noun
1. Nickname used to describe a member of The Ohio State University’s Varsity Lacrosse team.
2. Someone who wakes up at 7am for morning practice and has brief suicidal thoughts.
3. Someone who has practiced in skin tight, soaking wet, sweat suits (originally issued to the class of 1990) on the North Turf Field in a haze of overcast in the fall.
4. Someone who has attended a minimum of seventy one theme parties hosted by the Lacrosse team.
5. Someone that has survived a speed school, lifting session, or any other mandatory Ohio State conditioning regiment and mumbled the words “I signed up for Lax, not the military!” or “How is this getting us any better? We should be playing more Lax instead.”
6. Someone who has thrown up at practice….before the practice started.
7. Someone who has used the following pick up line in response to “you have a really unique style of dress.”-Girl…… “I know…..I play Lax.”-Buckeye Laxer.
8. Someone who has “pre-gamed” so hard that they never made it to the bar.
9. Someone who has played a game in Jessie Owens Memorial Field A.K.A. “The Snake Pit.”
10. Someone who is unsure if Greg Bice and Tony Russo are Urban Legends or were actually Lacrosse players at Ohio state.
11. Someone who feels they have been shafted by Mike Caldwell a.k.a. “The Equipment Nazi” at least one time in their career.
12. Someone who has worn their high school shoulder pads and elbow pads all four years of College…..damn it feels good to be a Division One Lacrosse Player….LOL.

Old Nuts [old nuts] [origin 2007] - noun
1. Someone who is a washed up Varsity Lacrosse player at The Ohio State University.
2. Someone who lives for Summer League Lacrosse games, in hopes to re-live their “glory days” once more.
3. Someone who has injuries that still haunt them from their game against the Marist Red Foxes 9 years ago.
4. Someone who has used “I played a varsity sport at Ohio State( at least once in every job interview).”
5. Someone that looks forward to thrashing the current varsity lacrosse team in the annual alumni game.
6. Someone who found out that Robert Morris was not just a Representative of Pennsylvania at the Continental Congress in 1775. But in fact was also an awful Division one Lacrosse team that OSU beat 20 to 1 in their inaugural season…….how about that.