GROUND BALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ground ball mean? 

• GROUND BALL (noun)
  The noun GROUND BALL has 1 sense:

1. (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground

  Familiarity information: GROUND BALL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROUND BALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(baseball) a hit that travels along the ground

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ground ball; groundball; grounder; hopper

Hypernyms ("ground ball" is a kind of...):

hit; hitting; striking (the act of contacting one thing with another)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ground ball"):

chop; chopper (a grounder that bounces high in the air)

roller (a grounder that rolls along the infield)