aboard
2
4.6
- adverb
- /əˈbɔrd/
- Jargon
:
en base
- Luckily, he was only aboard in 3V.
- runners aboard
- two aboard
Examples
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- I saw her when she came aboard.
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Two out in the tenth inning, the tying runs are aboard.
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A ship with just a small fire aboard and the crew abandon her.
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Several ships have likely departed for America with P-14s aboard, he says.
Academic text (1995) -
So, if this guy doesn't get his money, he's gonna kill himself and everyone aboard?
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Eddie wished the guy aboard, and he wished him nailed at second base.
Fiction book (1997) -
And the Sox have two aboard with Beck coming up who already has a two-run double tonight.
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The other kzinti can't match velocities and lay to until long after the ones aboard are dead.
Fiction book (2001) -
Oh, that's a quarantine flag, warning that there's black death aboard.
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The Indians placed at least one runner aboard in every inning but the seventh.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Aboard in baseball keeps the simple idea of being 'on' something, from on + board, so a player 'aboard' is a player 'on base'. This links the old sense of being on a ship's deck to the modern meaning of occupying a base.