double play

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   the act of getting two players out on one play

   Broaderbaseball play

Questions about double play

What does double play mean?

double play means "the act of getting two players out on one play".

Is double play a common word?

double play 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.