nutmeg

noun

• 1the hard, aromatic, almost spherical seed of a tropical tree.
• [mass noun] nutmegs grated and used as a spice: hot milk flavoured with nutmeg

• 2the evergreen tree that bears nutmegs, native to the Moluccas.

  • Myristica fragrans, family Myristicaceae

• 3 Soccer, informal an instance of playing the ball through an opponent’s legs.

  [extended use of obsolete nutmegs 'testicles']

verb (nutmegs, nutmegging, nutmegged)

• play the ball through the legs of (an opponent): Brady drifted past three defenders, nutmegging the third with ease