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baseballese

noun

Etymology

From baseball + -ese.

  1. derived from *bʰel-✻
  2. derived from *bʰélō✻
  3. inherited from *balluz✻
  4. derived from bǫllr
  5. inherited from *beall✻
  6. inherited from bal
  7. formed as baseball — “base + ball”
  8. suffixed as baseballese — “baseball + ese”

Definitions

  1. The jargon associated with the sport of baseball.

    • After 7 years of being in a rot league, I have learned that "day to day" in baseballese means "at least a week, maybe more, and maybe after the week, then we may DL him."

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA