pop-fly

1. 1.

   a short high fly ball

   Synonymspop flypop-up

   Broaderfly

   baseball

Questions about pop-fly

What does pop-fly mean?

pop-fly means "a short high fly ball".

How many syllables are in pop-fly?

pop-fly has 2 syllables: pop--fly. The stress falls on "pop-".

What is another word for pop-fly?

Close synonyms include pop fly, pop-up. 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 pop-fly a common word?

pop-fly 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.