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fastballs

fastballs is the plural of fastball.

fastballs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fastball.

Meaning of fastball

Noun

fastball (plural fastballs)

  1. 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
  2. (specifically) 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.

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Phrases with fastballs

Questions about fastballs

What is fastballs the plural of?
Fastballs is the plural of fastball.

Words near fastballs in the dictionary

  1. fastball counts
  2. fastballed
  3. fastballer
  4. fastballers
  5. fastballing
  6. fastballs
  7. fastbowler
  8. fastbowlers
  9. fastbreak
  10. fastbreaks
  11. fastcore

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fastballs (page history and authors); fastball (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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