Definitions

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

  • noun An umpire.
  • intransitive verb To serve as an umpire.

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  • noun baseball An umpire.
  • verb intransitive To act as an umpire.

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  • noun an official at a baseball game

Etymologies

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Shortened from umpire.

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Examples

  • That means the ump is going against his best judgment because of the review.

    MLB's replay initiative needs its own review 2008

  • I hear the ump is upset about it, but MLB won’t reverse it.

    Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Les News, 060310 2010

  • April 8, 2008 at 8:41 pm not so sure about that call ump .. looked a little outside

    IGD: Padres @ Giants (8 Apr 08) 2008

  • After bumping Cobble and arguing with him over a call, Robinson called the ump “a no-good human being” and drew a three-game suspension.

    Baseball’s Even Greater Insults Kevin Nelson 1993

  • After bumping Cobble and arguing with him over a call, Robinson called the ump “a no-good human being” and drew a three-game suspension.

    Baseball’s Even Greater Insults Kevin Nelson 1993

  • After bumping Cobble and arguing with him over a call, Robinson called the ump “a no-good human being” and drew a three-game suspension.

    Baseball’s Even Greater Insults Kevin Nelson 1993

  • After bumping Cobble and arguing with him over a call, Robinson called the ump “a no-good human being” and drew a three-game suspension.

    Baseball’s Even Greater Insults Kevin Nelson 1993

  • Example: Say ump hundred, umpty-ump, umpteen or ump years ago, non-central character X unleashes the Dark Lord or steals the MacGuffin Device, only to be Horribly Killed immediately for their Terrible Folly, leaving aforesaid Dark Lord/MacGuffin Device loose in the world to create merry havoc.

    On Prologues Hal Duncan 2009

  • The actual dynamics is more gnarly, to my mind, with nested and threaded sub-narratives of disruption, recognition and reaction (ump-thousand word blog post on this here).

    Archive 2009-04-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • The actual dynamics is more gnarly, to my mind, with nested and threaded sub-narratives of disruption, recognition and reaction (ump-thousand word blog post on this here).

    On Prologues Hal Duncan 2009

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