Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
overswing .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word overswinging.
Examples
-
He missed because he was swinging out of anger, and he was overswinging.
WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010
-
This one below, by California entrepreneur and wunderkind Auren Hoffman, is worth reading -- and provokes important concerns about the tendency for the pendulum overswinging from one side to the next in American politics.
-
Somehow Phil Mickelson won 30 PGA tournaments and 2 Masters at Augusta National straightening his right knee on the backswing and overswinging under the tutelage of his former coach Rick Smith.
-
Description: Lacking a blazing fastball, he is a thrower who must move the ball around and strive for what baseball people describe as ′location′; keep the hitters overswinging and overguessing.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004
-
Description: Lacking a blazing fastball, he is a thrower who must move the ball around and strive for what baseball people describe as ′location′; keep the hitters overswinging and overguessing.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004
-
Description: Lacking a blazing fastball, he is a thrower who must move the ball around and strive for what baseball people describe as ′location′; keep the hitters overswinging and overguessing.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004
-
When the club is held tightly, there will be practically no danger of overswinging; but, as with the drive, the pressure with the palms of the hands may be a little relaxed at the top.
The Complete Golfer Harry Vardon 1903
-
That injury was beyond maddening - a strained right elbow suffered, from all indications, by overswinging in a rare round of batting practice in mid-May at Fenway Park in Boston.
-
That injury was beyond maddening — a strained right elbow suffered, from all indications, by overswinging in a rare round of batting practice in mid-May at Fenway Park in Boston.
-
Best hope for the M's is that Texas starts overswinging at all the sub-80 mph stuff.
The Seattle Times 2011
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.