line drive

1. 1.

   (baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter

   “the batter hit a liner to the shortstop”

   Synonymsliner

   Broaderfly

   baseball

Questions about line drive

What does line drive mean?

line drive means "(baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter".

What is another word for line drive?

Close synonyms include liner. 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 line drive a common word?

line drive 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.