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throw BBs en · VERB

Etymology

* Blend of throw + BBs; an allusion to the pitches being thrown so hard that they look like, or are as hard to hit as, a BB pellet.

Meanings

  1. To pitch exceedingly well, especially with high velocity pitches.
    • But when I get up at the plate, he's throwing BBs at me. He strikes me out twice. 2003, Mickey McDermott, Howard Eisenberg, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cooperstown:

Forms

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throws BBs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
throwing BBs Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
threw BBs Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
threw BBs Tense=Past lexicographic