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home run
[ hohm ruhn ]
noun
- Also called homer. Baseball. a hit that enables a batter, without the aid of a fielding error, to score a run by making a nonstop circuit of the bases. : h.r., hr, HR
- a complete or unqualified success:
trying to hit a home run at the box office.
home run
noun
- baseball a hit that enables the batter to run round all four bases, usually by hitting the ball out of the playing area
Word History and Origins
Origin of home run1
Idioms and Phrases
A highly successful achievement; also, doubling one's profits. For example, We scored a home run with that drug stock, buying it at 15 and selling at 30 . This expression originated in the mid-1800s in baseball, where it refers to a pitched ball batted so far that the batter can round all three bases and reach home plate, scoring a run. Its figurative use dates from the mid-1900s.Example Sentences
Cypress 13, El Dorado 2: Wyatt Rosales had a home run and Greg Prophet contributed three hits.
He had zero home runs, which matched how many scholarship offers he had.
Anthony Murphy hit three home runs and finished with four hits and six RBIs.
MLB’s website even tracks what it terms as “dad strength home runs,” listing the 26 players since 2011 who have gone deep in their first game back from paternity leave.
He leads the team with six home runs.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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