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boot one

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boot one

  1. (baseball, slang) To make a mistake.
    • 1998, Eliot Asinof, Man on Spikes, page 68:
      [] to jeer at him when he booted one or fanned with a crucial run on base.
    • 2002, Brooke Horvath, Tim Wiles, Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems, page 92:
      [] he played short with sweet ease, and looked good even when he booted one, []