baseball card
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1.8
- noun
- /ˈbeɪsˌbɔl kɑrd/
- US
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tarjeta coleccionable de béisbol
- I was buying and selling baseball cards, buying and selling stamps.
- collect baseball cards
- buy baseball cards
- sell baseball cards
I root for the team whose baseball cards I had when I was a kid.
- I root for the team whose baseball cards I had when I was a kid.
- Now that incentive can be a pack of baseball cards for my boys.
- What is your most cherished baseball card that you still own right?
- I was buying and selling baseball cards, buying and selling stamps.
- You have my Dave Justice baseball card.
- And we would go in there and play the Gilligan's Island pinball machine and baseball cards were a huge craze.
- You have this a warehouse full of trading cards like how how much money worth of trading like baseball cards and basketball cards do you have?
- You know, we're trading baseball cards there.
Examples
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I got Willie mays' and Hank Aaron's autograph On a baseball card.
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She traded several baseball cards to complete her set of vintage players.
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Can we pay for this with baseball cards?
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You can have all my baseball cards for free.
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Where did you get my baseball card?
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You got a baseball card?
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Kids all over the country, buy them, collect them and trade them like baseball cards.
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Now that incentive can be a pack of baseball cards for my boys.
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I suppose I like collecting them the way other people enjoy collecting baseball cards or stamps.
Academic text (2009) -
I'd say my baseball card collection is as complete as anyone I've ever seen.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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2.4
A small card with a picture that people collect and swap
How Valuable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'baseball card' is compositionally predictable: it denotes a 'card' related to 'baseball' (i.e. depicting or associated with the sport or its players). While full cultural detail (collectibility, statistics) may require exposure, a B1 learner who knows 'baseball' and 'card' can readily infer the general meaning, so it is transparently built from its constituents.
Etymology
Baseball card comes from small cards with a picture and player numbers of a baseball player that companies long ago put in packs of gum or cigarettes. People began to keep and 'trade' these cards for fun or money, so today the phrase means a small card of a player that people 'collect'.