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around the horn

around the horn prepositional phrase: around the infield. Also the alternative letter-case form of around the Horn.

Prepositional phrase (1)

  1. Around the infield.
    • After a strike-out, it's common for the players to throw the ball around the horn (as long as no one's on base).

Prepositional phrase (2) capitalized: around the Horn

  1. (Navy, US, idiomatic) Via shipboard communications, formerly metal tubes with earhorn-like ends.
  2. Following the extremely hazardous naval route around Cape Horn, the southernmost point in South America.
    Synonyms:
    round the Horn

Also used as

around the horn is also the alternative letter-case form of around the Horn.

Synonyms of around the horn

Questions about around the horn

What does around the horn mean?
Around the horn means around the infield.
What part of speech is around the horn?
Around the horn is a prepositional phrase.

Words near around the horn in the dictionary

  1. around one's ears
  2. around Robin Hood's barn
  3. around the bend
  4. around the clock
  5. around the corner
  6. around the horn
  7. around the traps
  8. around the way
  9. around the wicket
  10. around the world
  11. around the worlds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: around the horn (page history and authors); around the Horn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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