strike zone

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   (baseball) the area over home plate between a batter's knees and shoulders through which a pitch must pass in order to be called a strike

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Questions about strike zone

What does strike zone mean?

strike zone means "(baseball) the area over home plate between a batter's knees and shoulders through which a pitch must pass in order to be called a strike".

Is strike zone a common word?

strike zone 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.