Meaning

1 senses
  1. A pitch deliberately thrown at the head of the batter.

    a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head

Origin

From bean + ball, from the slang bean (“head”).

From bean + ball, from the slang bean (“head”).

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Forms

plural: beanballs
Singularbeanball
Pluralbeanballs

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head:beaner

Word family

3 related words

See also

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