baseball

Meaning

Noun

• A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
• The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
• A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

Origin

• base + ball