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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pop fly
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Next pitch, a meek pop fly for the third out.
▪ Then a pop fly, a grounder and a ball.
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pop fly

n. a short high fly ball

Usage examples of "pop fly".

Suppose I ask you to hit a high pop fly to the center fielder, but to make it reach the fielder in half a second instead of six seconds.

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.

I punched in the code for the Gate, sank into the padding and took a deep breath, then me and the capsule arched out over the city like a high pop fly to centerfield.

Okay, well, some people had sharper senses than others-which was why composers of symphonies could hear more complex harmonies and rhythms in music than could the average concert goer, why some baseball players could see a pop fly against a glary sky sooner than others, and why a master viniculturist could appreciate subtler qualities of a rare vintage than could a stoned-blind wino who was only concerned with the effect.

Although finally in one game, behind twenty to nothing as usual, a batter hit a towering pop fly and I took off running back on it, and the wind kept carrying it and I kept following it, until when I got it I was out there sprawled between our startled centre fielders.

Little Peter Domenici was currently trailing the field, so she tossed the ball lightly up in the air and punched a pop fly to him.

Tom came in for a try at the bat, but the best he could do was to send up a little pop fly that the rival pitcher gathered in with ease.