Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Baseball A fly ball hit for fielding practice by a player who tosses the ball up and hits it on its way down with a long, thin, light bat.
Wiktionary
- n. baseball A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.
- n. baseball, informal A fungo bat.
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“' Then I got about 30 swings with the regular bat and it felt pretty much the same as swinging the fungo, which is obviously a good sign. '', who had surgery to repair a tendon in his right middle finger Aug. 14, visited his doctor in Arizona on Thursday and remains on schedule to return by late September.”
“They were hitting fungo balls out to him and he would miss them on purpose.”
“You can take a million ground balls off fungo bats during infield practice -- or a million swings off sore-armed coaches during batting practice -- but nothing can replicate game-speed.”
“Tracy spoke to reporters for four minutes, and as the crowd dispersed, he smacked base of the bench with a fungo bat and bit his lower lip.”
The Washington Post: Rockies team president Keli McGregor dead at 48
“Still decked out in street shoes and a three-piece suit, Diz shed his jacket, grabbed a fungo bat, and—with scores of photographers recording every antic and the Tigers pretending to be amused—sprayed line drives around Navin Field.”
“In contrast to fungo it was widely familiar in Ruvu-speaking societies and may thus reflect its proto-Ruvu-era usage as medicine for children.”
“Nyanja fungo "protective medicine for hunters." back”
“ I ' d hit his dad in the back with a fungo bat, " said Rob Ryan, as if no other explanation was needed.”
“Lengthy stories were published about Mays taking infield practice, snaring ground balls hit so fast that “flames seem to be leaping from the seams,” and firing to home plate with such velocity that Durocher had to dive for safety, only to rise and “threaten the player with his fungo bat.””
“As you came closer and were fingering for your ticket in your pocket, you could hear brave music from the loud-speakers, broken by the crack of a fungo bat, and through a space in the upper deck you caught a glimpse of grass, soft and incredibly green, in the outfield.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fungo’.
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Up In The Air @ Wordnik
List of words, terms, and phrases pertaining to or referencing anything that lives, traverses, moves in, uses, or otherwise occupies the space above the ground we walk on. Words and phrases contain...
aeroallergen, aerial, aerial mapping, aerial root, aerobe, aerobiology, aerobioscope, aelophilous, anemotropism, anemoclastic, anafront, antitrades and 273 more...
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Baseball Terms
Slang and plain words used to describe the great game of baseball.
groundout, single, caught looking, run it out, day game, getaway day, doubleheader, whiff, Texas Leaguer, wheelhouse, swipe a bag, utility player and 89 more...
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fun
Funafuti, Funchal, fung-hwang, fundic, fungic, funge, fungo, funfair, functor, fungian, fungiform, fungibility and 58 more...
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word set 2
preemptively, crocodilian, gyrator, wallowing, sodbusters, electrification, manganese, swabbing, plummeted, silhouetting, careening, frothy and 101 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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srboisvert's Words
couverture, poffertjes, naif, endermatic, prepense, aspic, otalgia, curettage,, florid, piffling, pillock, mow and 164 more...
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Thrown - about tossed - Words
bal-; bol-; -bol; -ble and incau(gh)tious others
ballistic, ballad, symbol, bolide, ballet, problem, ball, parabola, parable, amphibole, boule, diabolical and 184 more...
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Word Series
onion, gas, knock, swipe, heat, bloop, rope, pickle, pepper, fungo, sack, smoke and 17 more...
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fritter's Words
fungo, euphonious, slake, portmanteau, crepuscular, meretricious, salutary, irrefragable, brilliandeer, supersede, postprandial, sporran and 57 more...
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some words I like
reduplicative, syntax, distill, yes, bonhomie, jeremiad, lachrymose, epeolatry, pulchritude, ampersand, nog, diaeresis and 14 more...
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BrienneZ's Words
mastiff pumpkin, spittoon, chiffarobe, dolt, mmmboptism, portholio, catastrofuck, shit, curmudgeon, tallywhacker, lollygag, chickadee and 50 more...
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