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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An out made by a batter charged with three strikes and credited to the pitcher who threw the strikes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Baseball) an out made by a batter against whom three strikes were called in a single at-bat; also, the same out as credited to the pitcher, in the scoring of the game.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An instance or the act of yielding nothing
  • noun baseball An instance or the act of striking out

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an out resulting from the batter getting three strikes
  • verb make a motion as with one's fist or foot towards an object or away from one's body
  • verb cause to get out
  • verb put out or be put out by a strikeout
  • verb be unsuccessful in an endeavor
  • verb remove from a list
  • verb set out on a course of action

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