| home plate 
 
 (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands;
 it must be touched by a base runner in order to score (Freq. 2)
 - he ruled that the runner failed to touch home
 • Syn:
 home base, home, plate
 • Topics:
 baseball, baseball game
 • Hypernyms:
 base, bag
 
 
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