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Practice fly ball, e.g
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fungo
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Word definitions for fungo in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"A fly ball hit to a player during fielding practice in which the batter (often a coach) tosses the ball into the air and hits it as it descends with a long and narrow bat." [Paul Dickson, "The Dickson Baseball Dictionary," 3rd ed., 2009], attested from ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context baseball English) A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.
Usage examples of fungo.
Tommy had a long thin fungo bat and we took turns hitting fly balls to each other.
Rafferty grabbed Mad Dog's fungo bat and the wire prong and hid in the bushes behind the portajohn.
With its tail curled, the dead monitor lizard is roughly the length of a sawed-off fungo bat, and stout enough to require a firm two-handed swing.
A gray boom microphone, the size of a fungo bat, hung over his head.
With a growl he swung his refurbished left arm like a fungo bat across his body.
After they had batted a few times and chased a few fungoes, the Bayport Bears replaced them on the diamond.
Ted said this guy was so fuckin fast he could hit a fungo pop fly at home plate, then run out to shortstop and catch it himself.