PUTOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does putout mean? 

• PUTOUT (noun)
  The noun PUTOUT has 1 sense:

1. an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout)

  Familiarity information: PUTOUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUTOUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the first baseman made 15 putouts

Hypernyms ("putout" is a kind of...):

out ((baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball)

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 "putout"):

force; force-out; force out; force play (a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base)

fielder's choice (a play made on a ground ball in which the fielder chooses to put out an advancing runner instead of the batter)

sacrifice ((baseball) an out that advances the base runners)

Derivation:

put out (retire)

put out (cause to be out on a fielding play)