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yellow hammers

yellow hammers is the plural of yellow hammer.

Meaning of yellow hammer

Noun

yellow hammer (plural yellow hammers)

  1. A curve ball, especially a breaking curve that is particularly difficult to hit.
    • Watching the ballgame today someone broke off a real good curve and I said, "That was a real yellow hammer."1970, Jim Bouton, Ball Four, page 341

Questions about yellow hammers

What is yellow hammers the plural of?
Yellow hammers is the plural of yellow hammer.

Words near yellow hammers in the dictionary

  1. yellow gold
  2. yellow goods
  3. yellow grease
  4. yellow gum
  5. yellow hammer
  6. yellow hammers
  7. yellow harlequin
  8. yellow harlequins
  9. yellow hill ant
  10. yellow hill ants
  11. yellow Himalayan raspberry

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