fly ball

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   (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air

   Synonymsfly

   Broaderhit

   Narrowerblastpop flylinerflareTexas leaguer

   baseball

Questions about fly ball

What does fly ball mean?

fly ball means "(baseball) a hit that flies up in the air".

What is another word for fly ball?

Close synonyms include fly. 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 fly ball a common word?

fly ball is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.