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baseball swing

baseball swing

1 2.9
The movement a player makes with a bat to hit a thrown ball
  • noun
translation icon : swing de béisbol

Examples

  • You gonna work on that baseball swing?

    Space Jam (1996)

  • The coach taught him how to improve his baseball swing for better performance in games.

  • After many hours of practice, she finally mastered a powerful baseball swing that impressed everyone.

  • With a perfect baseball swing, he sent the ball soaring over the outfield fence.

Synonyms

swing
vsbaseball swing
167 2.3

An attempt to hit something made with a wide arm movement

is a coordinated attempt to hit a pitched ball by a batter
cut
vsbaseball swing
11 5.1

A hit or swing used to strike a ball

is a coordinated attempt focusing on contact rather than spin

Surface Forms

baseball swing singular
baseball swings plural

Morphology

baseball + swing

The noun phrase combines a familiar sport label 'baseball' with the action 'swing' whose noun sense (an attempt to strike) is directly applicable, so the overall meaning is a straightforward composition. This sport-specific action is cross-linguistically and cognitively transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Baseball swing comes from the literal motion a batter makes in the sport: the baseball player moves the bat in a smooth curve—the swing—to try to hit the pitched ball. So the phrase means a batter's 'attempt to hit' the ball or the way they hit it.