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FASTBALL

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Dictionary entry overview: What does fastball mean?

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

1. (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity

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

Dictionary entry details

• FASTBALL (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fastball; heater; hummer; bullet; smoke

Context examples:

he swung late on the fastball / he showed batters nothing but smoke

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

delivery; pitch ((baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter)

Domain category:

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 "fastball"):

slider (a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown)

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