on deck

prep_phrase — 2 senses

on deck

prep_phrase

1

Nautical, Transport On the deck of a ship, especially of a captain or officer; in charge.

In every sense of the expression he is ‘on deck’; but my Jim, for the most part, skulked down below as though he had been a stowaway.1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XIX, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 213:

2

Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Being the batter who will be up next, typically when that player is waiting on the field.

Jones is the on-deck batter.

Related terms: on the deck, at-bat

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