Crossword clues for rundown
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of run-down English) n. 1 A rough outline. Generally used in the definite, as ''the rundown''. 2 (context baseball English) A defensive play in which the runner is caught between two fielders, who steadily converge to tag the runner out. 3 A Caribbean stew of fish (typically mackerel) with reduced coconut milk, yam, tomato, onion and seasonings.
WordNet
n. a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) [syn: summation, summing up]
Wikipedia
A rundown, informally known as a pickle or the hotbox, is a situation in the game of baseball that occurs when the baserunner is stranded between two bases and is in jeopardy of being tagged out. When the base runner attempts to advance to the next base, he is cut off by the defensive player who has a live ball and attempts to return to his previous base before being tagged out. As he is doing this, the defenseman throws the ball past the base runner to the previous base, forcing him to reverse directions again. This is repeated until the runner is put out or reaches a base safely.
A rundown can be escaped if a fielder makes an error, the runner gets around the fielder with the ball without running out of the baseline, a fielder throws the ball elsewhere (e.g., toward home plate if another runner is trying to score), or the runner manages to get by the fielder without the ball while there is no other fielder to cover the runner's destination base.
The word rundown in sports broadcasting has overtaken the word pickle throughout the years. Pickle is more so used to describe the children's yard game where two fielders must tag the runner before the runner reaches a base or objective, which, although a fundamental part of baseball, is a game in and of itself. The use of the term "pickle" originated with the phrase "in a pickle", which means to be in a pickling (difficult or troubling) situation.
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In Scientology and Dianetics, a "rundown" is "a series of steps which are auditing actions and processes designed to handle a specific aspect of a case and which have a known end phenomena."
Rundown may refer to:
- rundown, an event in a baseball game
- run down, a stew dish in the cuisines of Jamaica and Tobago
- Rundown (Scientology), a set of procedures in Scientology and Dianetics
- RunDown Funk U Up, the debut album by D'banj
- The Rundown, a 2003 film starring Dwayne Johnson
- The Rundown (Philippine TV program), a defunct network news broadcast in the Philippines
- The Rundown with José Diaz-Balart, a weekday morning political talk show on MSNBC in the United States
- a situation report
- MFC 31, headlined MFC 31: Rundown, a mixed martial arts event in the Canadian city of Edmonton in 2011
Usage examples of "rundown".
Dockside were the warehouses and ship outfitters, but above them was a section of town that seemed to consist exclusively of brothels, taverns, druggeries and rundown boarding houses.
I tracked down Squam in a rundown shooker hall on the port side of town.
By the time they had finished their main courses, chicken masala, chicken tikka, and a selection of vegetable curries, Phil had told Karen all about his inquiries and given her a rundown on Jennifer Roth.
Drubber ordered me some fresh Parm, and Pete gave me a thumbnail rundown on the romantic lives of a couple of guys in town.
Barney stayed back, sharing no more than a deep sigh with the old townie until after his brother, the girl, and the freak rounded the side of the rundown colonial.
Trail RunDown, I tear the Trekker ad out and take it to my own bear-calling closet.
So Flavia had to present herself at the main door as a private visitor, then wait in a rundown and dingy room for nearly forty minutes before Aldo Morante bounced in and gave her a most unpriestly kiss.
Flora Abernethy lived in a basement flat on a rundown street near the center of Edinburgh.
Abandoned buildings, crumbling streets, and rundown neighborhoods prevailed along both sides of the busy road that many Austinites used to go from north to south and back, avoiding the more heavily trafficked I-35 and Mopac.
CHAPTER XIV LINK BRINGS LINE HALTED like toy dolls with rundown mechanism, pygmy crooks heard the crash of the battering rock as it shattered saplings into match-wood.
Nevada on the sidewalk in front of a rundown shit-stained bungalow trying to explain to a cancer-riddled old man what the Hearts meant to me.
An Inupiaq Eskimo from a tiny village in the Brooks Range, Martha now lived in a rundown housing project in Fairbanks.
Wesley Karpas had in mind when he changed his name to Carp and sought to rise in society, this decrepit and rundown house, this money-sucking semifailure of a son.
When Paul shook his head, Kit asked him for a complete rundown on the other inhabitants and guests of Lokelani Farms.
It did not take him long to spot Lorraine Orvieto on a dank street in a rundown section of Bayshore, Long Island.