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HARDBALL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Baseball as distinguished from softball
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("hardball" is a kind of...):
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)
Antonym:
softball (a game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger and softer)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A no-nonsense attitude in business or politics
Example:
they play hardball in the Senate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("hardball" is a kind of...):
attitude; mental attitude (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways)
