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knock it out of the ballpark

knock it out of the ballpark is the alternative form of hit one out of the ballpark.

Meaning of hit one out of the ballpark

Verb

hit one out of the ballpark (third-person singular simple present hits one out of the ballpark, present participle hitting one out of the ballpark, simple past and past participle hit one out of the ballpark)

  1. To hit a fair ball so well that the ball flies over all of the spectators' seats and lands outside the stadium.
  2. (broadly, idiomatic) To produce a spectacular achievement.
    • The Canada Institute, part of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has hit one out of the ballpark with its Montreal fundraiser.2007 September 18, Patricia Best, “Elite dig deep for tribute dinner”, in Globe and Mail, Toronto, retrieved 29 Jun 2008

Forms of knock it out of the ballpark

third-person singular presentknocks it out of the ballpark
present participleknocking it out of the ballpark
past participleknocked it out of the ballpark
pastknocked it out of the ballpark

Questions about knock it out of the ballpark

What is knock it out of the ballpark the alternative form of?
Knock it out of the ballpark is the alternative form of hit one out of the ballpark.

Words near knock it out of the ballpark in the dictionary

  1. knock in
  2. knock into
  3. knock into a cocked hat
  4. knock into shape
  5. knock it off
  6. knock it out of the ballpark
  7. knock it out of the park
  8. knock knee
  9. knock knees
  10. knock knock
  11. knock knock joke

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knock it out of the ballpark (page history and authors); hit one out of the ballpark (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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