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rally-cap

rally-cap is the alternative form of rally cap.

Meaning of rally cap

Noun

rally cap (plural rally caps)

  1. (US) A baseball cap worn inside-out and backwards, or in another unconventional manner, by players or fans, as a talisman in order to will a team into a come-from-behind rally late in the game.
    • His cap was turned backwards in the manner of a catcher or a rally-cap, though he had no intention of catching and there certainly wasn't a rally going on.2001, Melissa M. Dudek, Wildfire Summer: A Season With the Wyoming Wildfire, page 56

Forms of rally-cap

pluralrally-caps

Questions about rally-cap

What is rally-cap the alternative form of?
Rally-cap is the alternative form of rally cap.

Words near rally-cap in the dictionary

  1. rally cry
  2. rally English
  3. rally round
  4. rally round the flag
  5. rally towel
  6. rally-cap
  7. rally-caps
  8. rallycross
  9. rallycrosser
  10. rallycrossers
  11. rallye

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