STRIKEOUT

Strikeout

In baseball or softball, a strikeout or strike-out occurs when a batter accumulates three strikes during an at bat. It is a type of out in most circumstances. A strikeout is a statistic recorded for both pitchers and batters.

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Strike Out

Strike Out,, North American Harness racing champion Strike Out was born in 1969 at Castleton Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, and is by Bret Hanover out of the mare Golden Miss.

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strike out

Verb

  1. To lash out; to strike or hit at someone or something, particularly something in arm's length of the striker and at or near the level of the striker's head.
    1. To strongly criticize or make a verbal attack, particularly as a response to previous criticism or provocation.
  2. To draw a line through some text such as a printed or written sentence, with the purpose of deleting that text from the rest of the document. The text so deleted may be completely obscured, or it may be deliberately left legible with the line through it so that readers can see that it was deliberately deleted.
  3. Of a batter, to be retired after three strikes (missed swings, as opposed to any other way of becoming "out"); of a pitcher, to cause this to happen to the batter.
    Jones struck out on a nasty slider.
    The pitcher struck out Jones with a nasty slider.
  1. To fail; to be refused a request or to have a proposal not be accepted, in particular a request for a (hopefully romantic) date.
    Dave asked the new girl to the dance but he struck out.
  1. To begin to make one's way.
    The travellers struck out towards the line of mountains.


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strikeout

Noun

  1. An instance or the act of yielding nothing
    We've had one strikeout after the other on the Jones account.
  2. An instance or the act of striking out
    The pitcher recorded seven strikeouts in the game.
  3. Cancellation of a portion of text by crossing it out without deleting it; strikethrough.


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