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piggy move up

piggy move up noun: an informal game of baseball or softball, without separate teams, in which players take turns playing the different positions.

Noun

piggy move up (uncountable)

  1. (US) An informal game of baseball or softball, without separate teams, in which players take turns playing the different positions.
    • [The] burlesque broads from next door […] got bored in their dressing rooms. So they’d come out in the street and play baseball. […] They played piggy-move-up—softball.1964, Saul Bellow, Herzog, New York: Viking, page 271
    • He almost never thinks of the future, though he understands in an unformulated way that he will eventually grow up, will comb his hair back with water, and join the big boys in the back lane playing Piggy Move Up.1993, Carol Shields, “Motherhood, 1947”, in The Stone Diaries, London: Harper Perennial, published 2005, page 170

Questions about piggy move up

What does piggy move up mean?
Piggy move up means an informal game of baseball or softball, without separate teams, in which players take turns playing the different positions.
What part of speech is piggy move up?
Piggy move up is a noun.

Words near piggy move up in the dictionary

  1. piggy
  2. piggy bank
  3. piggy banks
  4. piggy flu
  5. piggy in the middle
  6. piggy move up
  7. piggy stick
  8. piggy toe
  9. piggy wiggies
  10. piggy wiggy
  11. piggy-back

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