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FASTBALL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
Example:
he showed batters nothing but smoke
Synonyms:
bullet; fastball; heater; hummer; smoke
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("fastball" is a kind of...):
delivery; pitch ((baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fastball"):
slider (a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown)
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