safety squeeze

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   the runner on third base waits to start home until the batter has bunted successfully

   Synonymssafety squeeze play

   Broadersqueeze play

Questions about safety squeeze

What does safety squeeze mean?

safety squeeze means "the runner on third base waits to start home until the batter has bunted successfully".

What is another word for safety squeeze?

Close synonyms include safety squeeze play. 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 safety squeeze a common word?

safety squeeze 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.