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home run meaning

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WHome run
  • In baseball, a home run (abbreviated HR, also "homer", "dinger", "bomb", "blast", " Big Dog",
  • Home runs are among the most popular aspects of baseball and, as a result, prolific home run hitters are usually the most popular among fans and consequently the highest paid by teams—hence the old saying, variously attributed to slugger Ralph Kiner,
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    Definition of home run in English Dictionary

  • NounPLhome runsPREhome-
    1. (baseball) A four-base hit, a homer.
      1. The first baseman hit a home run to lead off the ninth.
    2. IDI The portion of a journey that ends at home.
      1. I'm on the home run.
    3. IDI A success; especially, a popular success.
      1. The product was a home run.
    4. IDI Sexual intercourse.
    5. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • onds smashed the ball 467 feet, the second longest home run in the history of the park. ‎
        • Wells, in the three hole, extended his streak of at-bats without a home run to 134, the longest longball drought of his career.
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      1. Nouns
        • Countable nouns
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      1. en home runs
      Source: Wiktionary

      Meaning of home run for the defined word.

      Grammatically, this idiom "home run" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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