re: Question term used in track for stepping over foul line

We used it as kids to mean getting smacked with a ball or hit by something.

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Buddy was at a track meet and used the term peelayed when someone stepped over the foul line. No one at the meet had heard that term. It’s what he remembers from growing up in Louisiana.

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It's a scratch.

But he's using a French word.
Piler - Means stepped on or stomp.
So that makes sense.

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Used in N. La. In track during my childhood.

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Lived in Vidalia and Farmerville. Pretty sure I heard it in both.

From my earlier post:

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ya mom ‘n’ ’em for “your family and circle of friends,”

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https://www.waywordradio.org/pelay-piler-louisiana-french/

A Black lady I used to work with heard me say "mamma n them" on the phone, and jokingly accused me of trying to sound Black. She was from Grand Prairie, TX, and lived there her whole life. She said she had never heard a white person say it. I laughed at her and told her rednecks say it too, because I've heard it all my life.

I'd have to tell this lady from South Louisiana the same thing too because I just thought Mamma and them was country.

Probably a Louisiana word like tumpt. The wheel barrow tumpt over.

Used forever in Acadiana meaning to get wiped out physically