sandlot
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- noun
- /ˈsændˌlɑt/
- US
:
terreno baldío
- This is our sandlot, and we've owned it for, like, a long time.
- sandlot baseball
- sandlot games
- sandlot player
Suppose kids like him growing up on Sandlot baseball lots in Venezuela, you know, could have had access to, you know, MIT courses, right?
- Suppose kids like him growing up on Sandlot baseball lots in Venezuela, you know, could have had access to, you know, MIT courses, right?
Examples
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I was passing a sandlot, little white boy was up at bat.
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I'd followed them to the sandlot once after school.
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The game for the sandlot is played on the sandlot.
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Dear, when I was playing sandlot, it really changed my life.
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Now, take me back to the sandlot.
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We gotta get to the sandlot.
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He'd grown up across the street from a ragtag sandlot where all his buddies came to play ball.
Fiction book (2001) -
The local, home-grown sandlot heroes—the true and necessary amateurs—are almost no more.
Academic text (1994) -
The children gathered in the sandlot to play baseball after school.
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Growing up, I spent every summer afternoon playing in the sandlot with my friends.
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Etymology
Sandlot combines sand and lot — a lot is an 'empty piece of ground' (like a parking lot) and sand tells you the ground is rough or sandy. So a sandlot is an informal, often sandy open space where children play games like baseball.