fungo
verbEtymology Uncertain; perhaps from Scots fung (“to fling, throw”).
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Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To take part in a fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.
fungo
nounUS /ˈfʌŋɡoʊ/
Etymology Uncertain; perhaps from Scots fung (“to fling, throw”).
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Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.
- The fielding coach played fungo with the outfielders to warm them up.
- Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter aren’t going to China to […] hit fungoes to wide-eyed Chinese kids.2007 January 25, Murray Chass, “Yanks Hope to Get a Jump in China”, in New York Times:
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Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Informal A fungo bat.
- He is so strong he could hit it out of the park with a fungo.
- Derived terms
- fungo bat