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

  • noun In baseball, a pitch thrown inside near the head of the batter.
  • noun A blow to the face.
  • noun Idle or impudent talk.

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  • noun baseball, informal A fastball thrown near the batter's chin, often to set up a subsequent pitch thrown low and outside.

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  • noun idle or foolish and irrelevant talk

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  • whoa, another chin music! And from a bostonian no less!

    March 3, 2007

  • Old slang indeed. I remeber hearing this expression when I was a child (in the Pacific Northwest). And it was old then!

    June 21, 2007

  • HU = duma (blabber), soder (gravel)

    July 19, 2012