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rally caps

rally caps is the plural 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

Questions about rally caps

What is rally caps the plural of?
Rally caps is the plural of rally cap.

Words near rally caps in the dictionary

  1. rally 'round the flag effects
  2. rally around
  3. rally around the flag
  4. rally behind
  5. rally cap
  6. rally caps
  7. rally cries
  8. rally cry
  9. rally English
  10. rally round
  11. rally round the flag

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