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 .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an official at a baseball game
Etymologies
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Examples
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That means the ump is going against his best judgment because of the review.
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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
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April 8, 2008 at 8:41 pm not so sure about that call ump .. looked a little outside
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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