home run
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2.3
- noun
- /hoʊm rʌn/
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- The Rock Cats with a walk off home run in the final ever game at New Britain Stadium.
- hit a home run
- 14 home runs
- averaged 14 home runs
So what we found is we had nine home runs.
- So what we found is we had nine home runs.
- Led the year, one year, the League One year in home runs with nine.
- You play baseball, every pitch that you hit was a home run.
- I am going to tell you that your mom hit a second home run.
- And they can picture it, you know, in, in high school, hitting the game-winning home run or graduating from college first.
- And, and, and, and, and you don't lead today's game on yesterday's results, Babe Ruth said one day, he said yesterday's home run won't win today's game.
- Like if you hit a home run, you can strike out.
- If one of us put up a video of Mauer hitting a home run here, they took it down South.
Examples
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In his final official at-bat, Lankford hit a home run, the 238th of his career.
Blog text (1) -
In the top of the ninth, Phillips hit a towering home run that landed out of sight in the trees.
Fiction book (2000) -
One year, I hit the home run that won the big game.
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He just hit a home run!
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In my first two at-bats, I hit the ball hard and far, making two home runs.
Academic text (1990) -
He's two for two with a double and a monster home run in the third.
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In the final inning, he knocked a home run that brought the team to victory.
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After a powerful swing, she celebrated when the ball cleared the fence for a home run.
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The crowd erupted in cheers when their star player hit a stunning home run.
Synonyms
How Powerful
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Literally 'home' + 'run' describes the baseball action of scoring by running to home plate, so the components compose a clear sport-specific meaning; the extended idiomatic usage meaning 'an outstanding success' is a metaphorical extension from that sporting achievement. Because understanding the idiomatic success sense requires cultural/sports knowledge and is not fully predictable from the words alone for an average B1 learner, the expression is only partly transparent.
Etymology
Home run comes from baseball: when a batter hits the ball and can run around all the bases back to home to 'score a run', that play is called a home run.