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baseball-player

baseball-player is the alternative form of baseball player.

Meaning of baseball player

Noun

baseball player (plural baseball players)

  1. One who plays baseball, especially professional baseball.
    • Several years ago, says the Chicago Tribune, Joe Quest, now of the Athletics, gave the name of ‘Charlie horse’ to a peculiar contraction and hardening of the muscles and tendons of the thigh, to which base ball players are especially liable from the sudden starting and stopping in chasing balls, as...1886 July 17, Boston Globe, page 5
    Synonyms:
    baseballer

Forms of baseball-player

pluralbaseball-players

Questions about baseball-player

What is baseball-player the alternative form of?
Baseball-player is the alternative form of baseball player.

Words near baseball-player in the dictionary

  1. baseball player
  2. baseball players
  3. baseball rule
  4. baseball, huh
  5. baseball-mitted
  6. baseball-player
  7. baseball-players
  8. baseballdom
  9. baseballer
  10. baseballers
  11. baseballese

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Adapted from Wiktionary: baseball-player (page history and authors); baseball player (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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