fastball

3 definitions found

fastball - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  fastball \fast"ball`\ n. (Baseball)
     a baseball thrown with maximum velocity.
  
     Syn: heater, smoke, hummer, bullet.
          [WordNet 1.5]

fastball - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  fastball
      n 1: (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung
           late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but
           smoke" [syn: fastball, heater, smoke, hummer,
           bullet]

fastball - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "fastball":
     bowl, cast, change of pace, change-up, chuck, chunk, curve,
     downcurve, fling, flip, forward pass, heave, hurl, incurve,
     knuckleball, lateral, lateral pass, lob, outcurve, pass, peg,
     pitch, put, screwball, serve, service, shot-put, shy, sinker,
     slider, sling, spitball, spitter, throw, toss, upcurve