Fastball

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Baseball A pitch thrown at the pitcher's maximum speed.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of the variations of high speed pitches thrown in baseball
  • n. A four-seam fastball, which is a backspin pitch thrown with a ball gripped in the direction to cause four of the seams of the ball to cross the flight path and released with roughly equal pressure by the index and middle fingers
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. a baseball thrown with maximum velocity.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    delivery    pitch   
    Cross Reference
    slider    screwball    spitball    knuckleball    gyroball    two-seam fastball    split-finger fastball    sinker    cut fastball    curveball   
    Hyponym
    slider   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    heater    smoke    hummer    bullet   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    curveball    change-up    slider    {pgn    fastballs   
     
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