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little league

little league is the alternative letter-case form of Little League.

Proper noun capitalized: Little League

Little League

  1. (US) An organization that sponsors and organizes baseball and softball leagues for children.

Adjective capitalized: Little League

Little League (not comparable)

  1. (slightly derogatory) Petty, amateur, not worth taking seriously.
    • If nothing else, I now have the perfect retort to those little league Stalinists who try to insist that homosexuality is bourgeois decadence that doesn't exist under socialism!1983 April 16, John Kyper, “Cuba: A Little Sex, No Drugs, and Lotsa Rock 'n Roll”, in Gay Community News, page 9

Origin of little league

little + league. From being a sports league for children (little ones).

Words formed from little league

Questions about little league

What does little league mean?
Little league means an organization that sponsors and organizes baseball and softball leagues for children.
What is little league the alternative letter-case form of?
Little league is the alternative letter-case form of Little League.
What part of speech is little league?
Little league can be a proper noun or an adjective.

Words near little league in the dictionary

  1. little ladies
  2. little lady
  3. little language
  4. little languages
  5. Little Lawford
  6. little league
  7. Little League home run
  8. Little League home runs
  9. Little Leaguer
  10. Little Leaguers
  11. little Lindbergh Law

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Adapted from Wiktionary: little league (page history and authors); Little League (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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