horse-collar

[ hawrs-kol-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

to prevent (an opposing baseball team or batter) from scoring or making a base hit.

First recorded in 1945–50

In that, the eye rested, with undisguised delight, upon the grimaces of grinning candidates for the honours of the horse-collar.

I then rolled over, my neck feeling as if it were in a horse-collar; and suddenly felt a slight scratch.

In rural places if a carromata driver cannot find a leather horse-collar, he improvises one of banana-leaf.

After the horse-collar I started in the dry-goods trade; but I was burned out.

Would you grin at me, you dog, like a clown gaping through a horse-collar?

April 17, 2024axolotl

[ak-suh-lot-l ]

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