Meaning

6 senses
  1. An enclosed area used to hold bulls.

    Magnus and Big Dick are over in the bullpen, ready for tonight's rodeo.

  2. An enclosed area for pitchers to warm up in during a game.

    After that hit, there is activity in the bullpen.

    a place on a baseball field where relief pitchers can warm up during a game

  3. The relief pitchers of a team collectively.

    Their bullpen is worn out after yesterday's doubleheader where both games went 12 innings.

  4. (figuratively)A place for someone or something to get ready.

    If this team of consultants fails, I have another warming up in the bullpen.

  5. An open seating arrangement where project teams can communicate openly with minimal effort.

    We have our sales team in a bullpen setup to keep their energy flowing.

  6. (US, slang)A military prison or its enclosing stockade.

Translations

2 languages

Origin

From bull + pen.

From bull + pen.

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Forms

plural: bullpens
Singularbullpen
Pluralbullpens

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily:detention celldetention centre

See also

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