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small ball

small ball noun: a baseball strategy that relies on baserunning, singles, and hitting for average rather than hitting home runs.

Noun

small ball (uncountable)

  1. (slang) A baseball strategy that relies on baserunning, singles, and hitting for average rather than hitting home runs.
    Antonyms:
    power hitting
  2. (figuratively) Any strategy that involves proceeding by small increments.
    • The result was a new kind of “small ball” platform that confounded Clinton’s cabinet.2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN
    • Yes. It was such a small ball presentation. I did watch the event from afar, and I gotta say it was very strange to watch these Apple executives get on stage and express delirious enthusiasm over adding polls to iMessage.2025 June 13, Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, “Meta Bets on Scale + Apple’s A.I. Struggles + Listeners on Job Automation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

small ball meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Sanskrit

small ball in Tamil

உருண்டை

small ball in Marathi

a small ball or lump; clotted or concreted mass
डल्ला ḍallā

small ball in Bengali

small ball
গুটি guṭi

small ball in Sanskrit

a small ball or globule used for playing
गोलिका golikā
More languagesFewer languages
small ball in Assamese
গুটি guti

Antonyms of small ball

Forms of small ball

alternative formsmallball

Questions about small ball

What does small ball mean?
Small ball means a baseball strategy that relies on baserunning, singles, and hitting for average rather than hitting home runs.
What is small ball in Tamil?
Small ball in Tamil is உருண்டை. See Small ball meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is small ball?
Small ball is a noun.

Words near small ball in the dictionary

  1. small animal
  2. small appliance
  3. small appliances
  4. small arm
  5. small arms
  6. small ball
  7. Small Banisilan
  8. small beer
  9. small beers
  10. small bikkies
  11. small blind

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Adapted from Wiktionary: small ball (page history and authors); small ball (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); डल्ला (Marathi) (page history and authors); গুটি (Bengali) (page history and authors); गोलिका (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); গুটি (Assamese) (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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