change-of-pace

1. 1.

   a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball

   Synonymschange-upchange-of-pace balloff-speed pitch

   Broaderpitch

Questions about change-of-pace

What does change-of-pace mean?

change-of-pace means "a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball".

How many syllables are in change-of-pace?

change-of-pace has 4 syllables: chan-ge--of--pace. The stress falls on "ge-".

What is another word for change-of-pace?

Close synonyms include change-up, change-of-pace ball, off-speed pitch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is change-of-pace a common word?

change-of-pace 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.