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GROUND BALL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
Synonyms:
ground ball; groundball; grounder; hopper
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("ground ball" is a kind of...):
hit; hitting; striking (the act of contacting one thing with another)
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ground ball"):
chop; chopper (a grounder that bounces high in the air)
roller (a grounder that rolls along the infield)
