batter's box

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   an area on a baseball diamond (on either side of home plate) marked by lines within which the batter must stand when at bat

   Broaderbox

   Part ofbaseball diamond

Questions about batter's box

What does batter's box mean?

batter's box means "an area on a baseball diamond (on either side of home plate) marked by lines within which the batter must stand when at bat".

Is batter's box a common word?

batter's box is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.