Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A boy who looks after the equipment of a baseball team, especially the bats.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Baseball) A boy who holds the bats and presents the bat to a batter when the batter is going to the batter's box to bat. The batboy sometimes also keeps other team equipment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun baseball, softball A
boy employed to watch over thebats , and assist the players in retrieving them during play.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (baseball) a boy who takes care of bats and other baseball equipment
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Examples
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The batboy was a Massachusetts native named Frank McNulty.
chicagotribune.com - 2009
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Looks like I hit a nerve to point where I am being called "batboy" and my argument is being interpreted as a "straw man" fallacy.
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Wasn’t there something called a batboy in these baseball games?
FORTUNE’S LIGHT MICHAEL JAN FRIEDMAN 1991
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Expressing my love of sports, I sent this note to the Bronx with the hopes that a kid from the West Brighton Projects on Staten Island might actually be picked as a batboy for the best team in town; only to have my heart broken when the response came in the form of a neatly typed letdown.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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This guy could have been a good newsman, nows hes been relegated to batboy. ge
King: What will triumph in health care push - reform or recess? 2009
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… Junior Seau, now taping a Versus reality series that debuts Dec. 2 in which the ex-NFL star does things like be an MLB batboy and LPGA caddy, says he's considering returning to the NFL.
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Nikolai, who worked as a Giants batboy for years and had a locker next to his dad's, offered a theory: Murphy may have confused his father's caps with his.
Growing Up as Barry's Little Boy Hannah Karp 2011
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He worked with them for nearly a decade doing various jobs, batboy, handling equipment, manning the old-style wooden score board.
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To blame the old liberal wing of the party, now pretty much defunct, is the equivalent of a baseball team blaming the batboy for a tragic loss.
Matthew Yglesias » How Many Divisions Has Jane Hamsher? 2010
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Expressing my love of sports, I sent this note to the Bronx with the hopes that a kid from the West Brighton Projects on Staten Island might actually be picked as a batboy for the best team in town; only to have my heart broken when the response came in the form of a neatly typed letdown.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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