(billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
(golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
(historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
(in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
(obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
(programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
(tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
Chance.
The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
verb
To expose to chance; to take a risk.
To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.
