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split-finger

split-finger is the ellipsis of split-finger fastball.

Meaning of split-finger fastball

Noun

split-finger fastball (plural split-finger fastballs)

  1. A moderate rotation speed backspin pitch thrown with a ball gripped between the index finger and middle finger; it has good velocity, may have a precessing spin, and sinks as it approaches the plate.
    • His strikeout pitch was his split-finger fastball.

Forms of split-finger

pluralsplit-fingers

Origin of split-finger

Ellipsis of split-finger fastball.

Phrases with split-finger

Questions about split-finger

What is split-finger the ellipsis of?
Split-finger is the ellipsis of split-finger fastball.

Words near split-finger in the dictionary

  1. split wine bottle
  2. split wine bottles
  3. split-complex number
  4. split-complex numbers
  5. Split-Dalmatia
  6. split-finger
  7. split-finger fastball
  8. split-finger fastballs
  9. split-fingered fastball
  10. split-fingers
  11. split-flap display

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Adapted from Wiktionary: split-finger (page history and authors); split-finger fastball (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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