ground out

1. 1.

   make an out by hitting the ball on the ground

   Broaderhit

   baseball

Questions about ground out

What does ground out mean?

ground out means "make an out by hitting the ball on the ground".

Is ground out a common word?

ground out 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.