bush league
North American
noun
A minor league of a professional sport, especially baseball.What's the good of looking over a bush league outfit?...
- The peeling pastel-colored grandstand holds some 3,000 people, but the plant is less imposing than even a bush league track in the United States.
- I once played in a bush league in South Trinidad where good batsmen had to ensure that they were never hit on the pads.
adjective
(bush-league) informal Of mediocre quality; second-rate.One, who asked for anonymity, called it ‘brazenly absurd,’ and added that it was ‘a typical bush-league move.’...
- It costs nothing to read this public display of stupidity that gives our country a bush league image.
- Let's be honest: the officiating in that game was bush; bush league.
Derivatives
bush-leaguer
/ noun ...- But these shake-down artists are bush-leaguers compared to the all-time King of the Shake-Down.
- Bakula's success at turning around the hapless squad of bush-leaguers and has-beens earns them a game against the big-league club and its arrogant skipper.
- This has allowed the Colorado Rockies’ decent sluggers to become titans, while reducing dominant pitchers to bush-leaguers.
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