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CLEANUP POSITION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team)
Synonyms:
cleanup; cleanup position; cleanup spot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("cleanup position" is a kind of...):
position ((in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player)
Domain category:
ball; 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)
Holonyms ("cleanup position" is a part of...):
batting order; card; lineup ((baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat)
