| 单词 | pepper game |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspepper game 7. Baseball. A training exercise or warm-up in which a batter hits a ball pitched at close range by one of a number of other players, one of whom fields the ball and quickly pitches again to the batter. Originally and chiefly attributive, esp. in pepper game. ΚΠ 1913 Lewiston (Maine) Evening Jrnl. 13 Aug. 6/5 Long before the game started he was..engaged in a ‘pepper game’ for at least half-an-hour. 1950 Sun (Baltimore) 2 Mar. 1 (caption) The New York Yankees..engage in a pepper drill at their St. Petersburg (Fla.) camp. 1980 R. Mayer 1937 Newark Bears vii. 91 True, I fool around with the ball in pepper games, but all that stuff keeps me bending and aids me in keeping in shape. 1990 A. Gordon Safe at Home xviii. 130 The Titans took batting practice and the Tigers played pepper in front of their dugout. 2010 D. Wilson in P. J. Dragseth Eye for Talent 105 He was serious and a hard worker, and the pepper game left him soaked in sweat. < as lemmas |
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