"bat five hundred" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-bat five hundred.ogg [Australia] Forms: bats five hundred [present, singular, third-person], batting five hundred [participle, present], batted five hundred [participle, past], batted five hundred [past]
Etymology: From the practice of reckoning the batting average of a hitter in baseball in thousandths. Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=bat five hundred}} bat five hundred (third-person singular simple present bats five hundred, present participle batting five hundred, simple past and past participle batted five hundred)
  1. (idiomatic) To be successful half of the time; to have a success rate of 50%. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: bat a thousand
    Sense id: en-bat_five_hundred-en-verb-hiqcL9DP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for bat five hundred meaning in English (1.6kB)

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