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  • noun Plural form of bunter.

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Examples

  • And teams tend to adjust the field that same way – to help their slow infielders or their speedy bunters.

    Matthew Yglesias » PEDs 2010

  • I guess the easy explanation is that sluggers get big contracts, not sacrifice bunters.

    Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories 2010

  • But still, bunters challenge the pitcher or whoever picks up the ball.

    ONE OF THE SURVIVORS SUSAN SHAW 2009

  • “Now, bunters and single-hitters have a chance to make a living,” he says.

    Facebook Can’t Stomach Beer Pong 2007

  • But still, bunters challenge the pitcher or whoever picks up the ball.

    ONE OF THE SURVIVORS SUSAN SHAW 2009

  • But still, bunters challenge the pitcher or whoever picks up the ball.

    ONE OF THE SURVIVORS SUSAN SHAW 2009

  • But still, bunters challenge the pitcher or whoever picks up the ball.

    ONE OF THE SURVIVORS SUSAN SHAW 2009

  • I was mortified at this piece of simplicity, which I imagined, at that time, was all affected by way of reprimand for my folly; and asked with some heat if he thought I had spent the evening in a cellar with chairmen and bunters; giving him to know, at the same time, that my expense had amounted to eighteen guineas.

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • They were skillful bunters, however, and had the Giant players "standing on their heads" in trying to field the balls that the clever Jap players laid deftly in front of the plate.

    Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour Lester Chadwick

  • As well let their brats and bunters tell us what to do.

    Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883

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