Baseball vs Busher - What's the difference?
baseball | busher |
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.
* 1797-1798 , (Jane Austen), (Northanger Abbey)
The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
(US, baseball, slang) A major league baseball player who has recently come from a small league.
* August 1952 , Baseball Digest Page 37
As nouns the difference between baseball and busher
is that baseball is baseball (ballgame) while busher is (us|baseball|slang) a major league baseball player who has recently come from a small league.baseball
English
(wikipedia baseball)Noun
(en noun)- It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball , riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books.
Usage notes
* (English Citations of "baseball")Derived terms
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* rounders * softball * wiffleball * ----busher
English
Noun
(en noun)- He was talking about me all the time that day in Boston, standing with the bat boy, making cracks. That's all right but when he called me a busher in front of the whole Yank team and then challenged me, I had to fight.