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to foul out

to foul out

4 6.6
Get out when a player catches a foul ball you hit
  • phrasal verb
  • /faʊl aʊt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : salir por falta
  • Rudy Gay fouled out.
  • fouled out of games
  • player fouled out
  • fouled out after scoring

Examples

  • When the player fouled out, the coach had to adjust the team's strategy for the final minutes.

  • When Pierce fouled out, there was a little over - four minutes remaining. -

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  • Peck fouled out after playing just 23 minutes.

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  • Curry fouled out, and I felt the refs had some quick whistles today.

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  • For Iona, Sean Armand has 18 points before fouling out in overtime.

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  • After he fouled out during OT against the Bulls, the Suns were just horrid.

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  • Shane Southwell fouled out, and the announcers spent time showing and discussing his misspelled last name.

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  • In the crucial match, he fouled out after receiving two quick fouls in the second half.

  • The star forward fouled out early in the fourth quarter, leaving his team with fewer options.

Synonyms

to put out
vsto foul out
  • Jargon
13 7.3

Cause a player to be out in a game like baseball

is a specific removal caused by a batted ball caught outside the fair area

Antonyms

safety
  • Jargon
14 8.9

A hit that lets the batter reach base safely, often a bunt

Surface Forms

foul out infinitive
fouled out past
fouled out past participle
fouling out present participle
fouls out third person singular

Morphology

foul + out

The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'foul' (to hit into foul territory) with 'out' (a player declared out), indicating being put out as a result of a foul. Although it is baseball-specific terminology, the compositional logic is transparent so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reasonably infer the meaning.

Etymology

Foul out comes from baseball: when a batter hits the ball into the side area called foul and a fielder catches it, the batter is out. So the phrase means 'to be put out' by a caught ball in foul ground.