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Where to go for relief
Answer for the clue "Where to go for relief ", 7 letters:
bullpen
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In baseball , the bullpen (or simply the pen ) is the area where relief pitchers warm-up before entering a game. A team's roster of relief pitchers is also metonymically referred to as "the bullpen". These pitchers usually wait in the bullpen if they have ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also bull-pen , 1915, in the baseball sense, from bull (n.1) + pen (n.2); perhaps from earlier slang meaning "temporary holding cell for prisoners" (1809). Bullpen also was the name of a baseball-like game played in U.S. late 19c.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An enclosed area used to hold bulls. 2 (context baseball English) An enclosed area for pitchers to warm up in during a game. 3 (context baseball English) The relief pitchers of a team collectively. 4 ''(metaphorical)'' A figurative place for someone ...
Usage examples of bullpen.
James, the owner of The Bullpen, had recruited him in a bar one night when he was between construction jobs and low on cash.
When he had first seen her at The Bullpen, it was dark, and her hair was loose and kind of wild, blowing around her shoulders and hiding part of her face.
The Bullpen, and on the way there, or back, you were in a fatal accident?
She was the first and last woman customer at The Bullpen that he had gotten personal with, except for Beverly.
He picked up the phone and dialed The Bullpen, knowing Amanda did her bookkeeping on Sundays.
In fact, she was certain it looked exactly like the first sports car that had caught her eye at The Bullpen when she originally traveled to 1996.
He never worked part-time at The Bullpen or lived in a cheap one-room walkup.
He was placed in one of the two solitary cells, as far away from the crowded bullpen as possible, but the jail was so small that Ron could disrupt it from anywhere.
The jailers moved Ron from his isolation cell into a bullpen with a dozen others, an arrangement that proved disastrous.
In the crowded bullpen of the jail, he had quizzed Dennis about the murder.
Each bullpen was designed for eight men but was often more crowded than that.
A set of double doors led into the main bullpen, and another door connected to his office.
He had to run up and down over the bullpen mound to make a catch, and then throw a tagging runner out at the plate.
You could see why guys used to come down from the bullpen when Billy Beane hit, just to see what he would do if he struck out.
To fill the hole at the back of his bullpen Billy had traded to the Toronto Blue jays a minor league third baseman, Eric Hinske, for Billy Koch, another crude fireballer.