CLEANUP POSITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cleanup position mean? 

• CLEANUP POSITION (noun)
  The noun CLEANUP POSITION has 1 sense:

1. (baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team)

  Familiarity information: CLEANUP POSITION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLEANUP POSITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

cleanup; cleanup position; cleanup spot

Hypernyms ("cleanup position" is a kind of...):

position ((in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player)

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)

Holonyms ("cleanup position" is a part of...):

batting order; card; lineup ((baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat)