BASEBALL PLAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does baseball play mean? 

• BASEBALL PLAY (noun)
  The noun BASEBALL PLAY has 1 sense:

1. (baseball) a play executed by a baseball team

  Familiarity information: BASEBALL PLAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASEBALL PLAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(baseball) a play executed by a baseball team

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("baseball play" is a kind of...):

maneuver; manoeuvre; play (a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill)

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 "baseball play"):

double play (the act of getting two players out on one play)

triple play (the act of getting three players out on one play)

pick-off (a baseball play in which a base runner is caught off base and tagged out)

squeeze play (a baseball play in which a runner on third base tries to score as the batter bunts the pitch)