pick-off

1. 1.

   a baseball play in which a base runner is caught off base and tagged out

   Broaderbaseball play

Questions about pick-off

What does pick-off mean?

pick-off means "a baseball play in which a base runner is caught off base and tagged out".

How many syllables are in pick-off?

pick-off has 2 syllables and divides as pic-k-off under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is pick-off a common word?

pick-off 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.