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Sport drag, perhaps, at society dance (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

netball

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'sport drag' is the definition.
'netball' can be an answer for 'sport' (I've seen this before). I am unsure of the 'drag' bit.

'at society dance' is the wordplay.
'at society' becomes 'net' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'dance' becomes 'ball' (ball is a kind of dance).
'net'+'ball'='NETBALL'

'perhaps' is the link.

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(Other definitions for netball that I've seen before include "Seven-a-side team game -- all bent (anag)" , "After this, you get to serve again" , "Team game/sport" , "Team game, played mainly by women" , "activity no longer associated solely with girls" .)

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