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Worker around home plate
Answer for the clue "Worker around home plate ", 6 letters:
batboy
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Word definitions for batboy in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Maybe the Braves can send their batboy on to the field for better defense.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
batboy \bat"boy`\ (b[a^]t"boi`), n. (Baseball) A boy who holds the bats and presents the bat to a batter when the batter is going to the batter's box to bat. The batboy sometimes also keeps other team equipment.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context baseball softball English) A boy employed to watch over the bats, and assist the players in retrieving them during play.
Usage examples of batboy.
Not that he cared so much about being a batboy, dressed in a baggy Brewers uni and running around in front of all those people at Miller Park, but to own Richie Sexson's own bat, the lumber with the lightning .
Not the grand prize, which was getting to be the Brew Crew's batboy for the entire Cincinnati series, but what he got (besides this excellent seat with the other winners, that is) is, in his opinion, even better.
I squatted for a closer study: Euclid, Dariuss half brother and our sometime batboy, depending on if the away park in question would let him fetch for us.