submarine ball

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   a pitch thrown sidearm instead of overhead

   Synonymssubmarine pitch

   Broaderpitch

Questions about submarine ball

What does submarine ball mean?

submarine ball means "a pitch thrown sidearm instead of overhead".

What is another word for submarine ball?

Close synonyms include submarine pitch. 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 submarine ball a common word?

submarine ball 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.