baseball
UK /ˈbeɪs.bɔːl/ · US /ˈbeɪs.bɔl/ noun
Forms baseballs base ball base-ball
- noun (uncountable) A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
- noun (countable) The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
- noun A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
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Webster’s 1913
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “baseball”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details