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BALL-HAWKING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used of a player skilled in stealing the ball or robbing a batter of a hit
Example:
a ball-hawking center fielder
Classified under:
Similar:
skilled (having or showing or requiring special skill)
Domain category:
football; football game (any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal)
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
basketball; basketball game; hoops (a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop)
