baseballese
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]baseballese (uncountable)
- The jargon associated with the sport of baseball.
- 2012 October 6, Jayson Stark, “The pop-up heard ‘round the world”, in [2] (Usenet):
- Back-back-back-back went Cardinals shortstop Pete Kozma. Twenty feet back of the infield dirt. Thirty feet. Forty feet. Fifty feet. Sixty feet. Finally, he raised his arms in the air -- which, in baseball-ese, is the international symbol for "I've got it."