Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of the crew of a submarine.
- noun Baseball A pitcher who throws submarine pitches.
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- noun A member of the
crew of asubmarine . - noun US, baseball A
pitcher that throws with an underhand motion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of the crew of a submarine
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Examples
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The problem with a righty submariner is the ball is much easier for left-handed hitters to track.
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Maddon brought in submariner Chad Bradford after Burrell's hit because Bradford is an extreme ground-ball pitcher.
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Ah, Bel-ustegui is as bad as El -ato, he feels his own weird obligation to carry on in German submariner slang, it is just precisamente a seagoing Tower of Babel here-the torpedo? why is he screaming about the torpedo?
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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In baseball parlance, Boyd is a submariner, which is appropriate for a thrower employed in a land at and even below sea level.
Tyee - Home 2009
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I always thought "submariner" and "sidearm" meant the same thing, interchangeable terms.
meet eri yoshida 2008
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My husband is a surface sailor, but I have friends who are submariner wives and so know a little about the community.
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I'm notsure how many submariner wives we have reading SpouseBUZZ, but I'd be interested in reading your thoughts.
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Cary Fu was a middle reliever in Sedro Wooley, a submariner with a pretty wicked sinker, too and this crazy wind up, like
One Minute Memoir of a Semi Emittered Lifetime AA Batter Dennis Mahagin 2012
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Also, just before the Russian submariner opens the torpedo tube, he is asked "What do you think is in there?"
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I'm notsure how many submariner wives we have reading SpouseBUZZ, but I'd be interested in reading your thoughts.
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