Definition of: jai alai

(hī ə·lī′)
A Spanish game, popular in Latin America, played by two opposed couples in a court called a frontón: the ball is served against a wall, and each player wears a gauntlet from which projects a long, curved wicker racket, called the cesta, in which he alternately receives the ball and hurls it back against the wall. The first to miss loses the point. Compare pelota. [<Sp. <Basque, jolly festival]