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home run

[ hohm ruhn ]

noun

  1. Also called homer. Baseball. a hit that enables a batter, without the aid of a fielding error, to score a run by making a nonstop circuit of the bases. : h.r., hr, HR
  2. a complete or unqualified success:

    trying to hit a home run at the box office.



home run

noun

  1. baseball a hit that enables the batter to run round all four bases, usually by hitting the ball out of the playing area


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Word History and Origins

Origin of home run1

An Americanism first recorded in 1855–60

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Idioms and Phrases

A highly successful achievement; also, doubling one's profits. For example, We scored a home run with that drug stock, buying it at 15 and selling at 30 . This expression originated in the mid-1800s in baseball, where it refers to a pitched ball batted so far that the batter can round all three bases and reach home plate, scoring a run. Its figurative use dates from the mid-1900s.

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Example Sentences

The AHA stepped up to the plate, but instead of an out-of-the-ballpark home run, it fouled out.

Tony Perez hit a home run, and the Mets came to the bottom of the ninth behind five to three.

Somebody said the laundry shelled out twenty-one thousand dollars in home run money that year.

But Tom Jones somehow hit a home run with Spirit in the Room.

With this particular audience, Cruz arguably hit a home run.

Once everybody in the park shouted and stood up and Peter said it was a home run, but Pat gave very little heed to this.

He couldn't be burdened with learning about hits and errors or even the thing called a home run.

The next man up hit one squarely on the nose and boosted it over the fence for a home run.

You knocked a home run that first day of school, and you can do it again.

Don't you remember that home run he knocked the first day of school?

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