| base on balls | |
noun | |
| (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls; "he worked the pitcher for a base on balls" |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |