fastball
fastball noun: a high-speed pitch of a baseball.
Noun
fastball (plural fastballs)
- A high-speed pitch of a baseball.
- Cam Smith bounced to shortstop on a 100 mph fastball, and Jacob Melton also grounded out on an 86.9 mph curveball.2025 June 11, “White Sox pitching prospect Grant Taylor makes jump from Double-A to perfect major league debut”, in Associated Press, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2025
- A four-seam fastball, which is a backspin pitch thrown with a ball gripped in the direction to cause four of the seams of the ball to cross the flight path and released with roughly equal pressure by the index and middle fingers
- The pitcher had a blazing fastball.
Verb
fastball (third-person singular simple present fastballs, present participle fastballing, simple past and past participle fastballed)
- To throw (something) at a high speed.
- Kevin pushed away from the desk and fastballed it into the other man’s chest.2004, Richard Marinick, chapter 25, in Boyos: A Novel, Boston, Mass.: Kate’s Mystery Books, →ISBN, page 112
- Wyatt spurred his horse to the middle of the stones, reached into the corpse’s chest, yanked out the heart, and fastballed it at a vine-covered tree stump.2007 December 6, Jennifer Rardin, chapter 5, in Another One Bites the Dust (Jaz Parks; 2), New York, N.Y.: Orbit, →ISBN, page 44
fastball meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
fastball in Hindi
- फास्टबॉल, फ़ास्टबॉल
fastball in Tamil
- ஃபாஸ்ட்பால், வேகப்பந்து, ஃபாஸ்ட்பாலிங்
fastball in Marathi
- फास्टबॉल, फास्टबॉलिंग, फास्टबॉलला
fastball in Urdu
- فاسٹ بال
More languagesFewer languages
- fastball in Bengali
- ফাস্টবল, ফাস্টবলিং
- fastball in Telugu
- ఫాస్ట్బాల్
- fastball in Malayalam
- ഫാസ്റ്റ്ബോൾ, ഫാസ്റ്റ്ബോളിംഗ്, ഫാസ്റ്റ്ബോളിങ്
- fastball in Kannada
- ಫಾಸ್ಟ್ಬಾಲ್, ಫಾಸ್ಟ್ಬಾಲಿಂಗ್
- fastball in Gujarati
- ફાસ્ટબોલ, ફાસ્ટબૉલ, ફાસ્ટબોલિંગ
- fastball in Odia
- ଫାଷ୍ଟବଲ୍
- fastball in Nepali
- फास्टबल, फास्टबल गर्न
Examples of fastball in a sentence
- And Melnick goes down with one last hack at an O'Malley fastball.
- The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
- Paige seemed to be winding up for a fastball but then switched it up.
Synonyms of fastball
Forms of fastball
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fastballs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | fastballs |
| present participle | fastballing |
| past participle | fastballed |
| past | fastballed |
Origin of fastball
From fast (adjective) + ball.
Words formed from fastball
Phrases with fastball
Questions about fastball
- What does fastball mean?
- Fastball means a high-speed pitch of a baseball.
- What is fastball in Hindi?
- Fastball in Hindi is फास्टबॉल, फ़ास्टबॉल. See Fastball meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fastball?
- Fastball can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of fastball?
- The plural of fastball is fastballs.
Words near fastball in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: fastball (page history and authors); fastball (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fastball (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fastball (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fastball (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fastball (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fastball (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fastball (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fastball (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fastball (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fastball (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fastball (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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