Crossword clues for lefty
lefty
- AKA Horace (Gwynne)
- Whitey Ford, for one
- Unseen Odets title character
- Truman, Clinton, Reagan, or Obama, e.g
- Steve Carlton's nickname
- Southpaw pitcher
- Sandy Koufax or CC Sabathia
- Person who isn't right-handed
- One not right-handed
- One at an Occupy protest, probably
- Not right-handed
- Name for a pitcher
- Liberal voter, slangily
- Koufax, Ford or Spahn
- Grove or Gomez
- Gomez or Grove
- Batter to an ump's right
- Baseball's Gomez
- Southpaw's nickname
- One of a much-discriminated against minority
- Writer who's in the minority
- Liberal, slangily
- Lou Gehrig, for one
- Liberal, disparagingly
- Odets's "Waiting for ___"
- "Waiting for ___" (Odets play)
- Grove, for one
- Gomez or O'Doul of diamond fame
- Old-timer Grove of the A's
- Pitcher Grove or Gomez
- Grove of Cooperstown
- Phil Mickelson's nickname
- Southpaw's sobriquet
- Nickname for a southpaw
- Certain pitcher
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
lefty \lefty\ n.
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a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right; a left-handed person.
Syn: lefthander, southpaw.
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a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand.
Syn: left-handed pitcher, left-hander, southpaw.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"left-handed person," 1886, American English, baseball slang, from left + -y (3). Political sense by 1935.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context US English) left-handed 2 (context US English) intended for left-handed use alt. (context US English) One who is left-handed. n. (context US English) One who is left-handed.
WordNet
n. a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right; "their pitcher was a southpaw" [syn: left-hander, southpaw]
a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand [syn: left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefthander, southpaw]
Wikipedia
Lefty (left-right determination factors) refers to proteins that are closely related members of the TGF-beta family of growth factors. These proteins are secreted and play a role in left-right asymmetry determination of organ systems during development. Mutations of the genes encoding these proteins have been associated with left-right axis malformations, particularly in the heart and lungs.
Lefty is a nickname for a person who is left-handed. Lefty may refer to:
- Lefty Atkinson (1904–1961), Major League Baseball pitcher for one game
- Lefty Bates (1920-2007), American Chicago blues guitarist
- Lefty Bertrand (1909-2002), Major League Baseball pitcher for one game
- Steve Carlton (born 1944), American Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
- Cliff Chambers (1922-2012), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Lefty Clarke (1896-1975)), Major League Baseball pitcher for one game
- Lefty Driesell (born 1931), American college basketball coach
- Lefty Frizzell (1928-1975), American country music singer and songwriter
- Lefty Gomez (1908-1989), Mexican-American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Lefty Grove (1900-1975), American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
- Lefty Leifield (1883-1970), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Lefty Marr (1862-1912), American Major League Baseball player
- Lefty O'Doul (1897-1969), American Major League Baseball player and minor league manager
- Phil Mickelson (born 1970), American professional golfer
- Lefty Phillips (1919–1972), American Major League Baseball coach, manager, scout and executive
- Frank Rosenthal (1929-2008), sports handicapper, Las Vegas casino executive, bookmaker and organized crime associate whose career is the basis of the Martin Scorsese film Casino
- Benjamin Ruggiero (1926-1994), American mobster
- Lefty Stewart (1900-1974), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Lew Tendler, American Hall of Fame boxer
- Lefty Tyler (1889-1953), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Lefty Weinert (1900-1973), American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
- Lefty Wilkie (1914-1992), Canadian Major League Baseball pitcher
- Lefty Williams (1893-1959), American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher involved in the Black Sox scandal
- an on-air name for American disc jockey Captain Mikey, born Marion Elbridge Herrington (1935–1997)
Lefty is a nickname for a left-handed person.
Lefty may also refer to:
Lefty also known as the L.E.F.T. is an American rapper, born Paulski DeL. He has released three studio albums & moved more than 15,000 units as one half of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, crew Bash Bros. Lefty has also released four volumes of his street album series "Gangland". He was featured in URB magazine's "Next 1000".
Lefty is the seventh solo studio album by Art Garfunkel, released in 1988. The album features three songs by singer-songwriter Stephen Bishop. The album's cover photo shows a pre-teen Art Garfunkel holding a baseball bat in the front yard of his childhood home in the Forest Hills section of Queens, New York City. It was taken by his brother Jules. The album title came from the fact that Garfunkel is left-handed, which the picture established.
The album failed to make the Top 100 in the US and hit the bottom half of the UK Top 100. Despite this, it yielded three minor hit singles.
The liner notes of the album contain a brief prose text Garfunkel had written in memory of his partner Laurie Bird who had committed suicide in 1979. The album marked a new beginning in Garfunkel's professional life after becoming somewhat of a recluse following the tragedy.
Usage examples of "lefty".
Hip to hip, arms interwoven to hold hands, Desdemona and Lefty circumambulated the captain, once, twice, and then again, spinning the cocoon of their life together.
He had attended the small Presbyterian school just outside of Charlotte back in the late Sixties, when Lefty Driesell was coaching there and the team featured stars like Mike Maloy and Jerry Kroll.
Well, Lefty looks at my sawbuck and nods his head, for Lefty is not such a guy as will refuse any bet, even though it is as modest as mine, and right away Goldie yells money-money-money, so there I am with twenty-two dollars.
A few weeks later, Milton had had the business appraised and was met with a shock: the Zebra Room was worth less than when Lefty had acquired it in 1933.
One day, appraising himself with severity in the bathroom mirror, Lefty realized that he had become one of those older men who slicked their hair back in allegiance to an era no one could remember.
Past Scott Hatteberg and Greg Myers, the two lefties on the bench who had thought they had the night off, rushing back through the clubhouse to the batting cage to take some practice swings, in case they are asked to pinch-hit.
Trying to make up with his wife, my grandfather brought home the first of the many parakeets my grandparents would have over the years, and gradually, living on top of us all, Desdemona and Lefty made their next-to-last home together.
But if Lefty lacked much in agility, he had an animallike sense of balance.
Lefty opened the bar at eight in the morning, and by eight-thirty the barstools were filled with men dulling themselves before reporting to work.
Lefty, newly moneyed and befezzed, makes his way through the maroon-capped crowd at the quay.
The brakie could talk above the racket, and so, of course, could Lefty Joe.
Lefty Joe expertly lighted a match in spite of the roaring wind, and by this wild light the brakie read the denomination of the bill with a gasp.
Lefty used to stop there with Milton to buy cantaloupes, teaching Milton how to pick a sweet one by looking for tiny punctures left by bees.
Instead of getting to know each other, becoming familiar with likes and dislikes, ticklish spots, pet peeves, Desdemona and Lefty tried to defamiliarize themselves with each other.
While Lefty ground bearings nonstop, Desdemona built pastitsio, moussaka and galactoboureko.