| 单词 | eephus pitch |
| 释义 | eephus pitchor e·phus pitch[ ee-fuhs pich ] / ˈi fəs ˌpɪtʃ / noun Baseball.a junk pitch of extremely low speed and with a characteristically high arc: He baffled many a hitter with his eephus pitch. Also Ee·phus pitch, E·phus pitch . Origin of eephus pitchFirst recorded in 1940–45; name attributed to Maurice Van Robays (1914–65), outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates, for a kind of junk pitch developed in the early 1940s by Truett “Rip” Sewell (1907–89), pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates; further origin uncertain. The proposed derivation from Hebrew efeṣ “nothing, zero” is considered unlikely Words nearby eephus pitche'en, eensy-weensy, EENT, EEO, EEOC, eephus pitch, e'er, eerie, eery, ef-, EFA Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 |
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