home run

See also: homerun

English

Alternative forms

homerun

Pronunciation

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Noun

home run (plural home runs)

(baseball) A four-base hit, allowing the batter to circle the bases and reach home safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team.
Synonyms: homer, longball

The first baseman hit a home run to lead off the ninth.
(figurative) The portion of a journey that ends at home.
I'm on the home run.
(figurative) A success, especially a popular success.
The product was a home run.
(colloquial) Sexual intercourse.
(electrical engineering) A connection from a central distribution point or circuit breaker to a destination.

Derived terms

Descendants

Spanish: jonrón

Translations

(baseball) four-base hit

Catalan: quadrangular (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 全壘打／全垒打 (zh) (quánlěidǎ)
Esperanto: hejmkuro
Finnish: kunnari (fi)
French: coup de circuit (fr), circuit (fr) m
Hungarian: hazafutás
Italian: fuoricampo
Japanese: ホームラン (hōmuran), 本塁打 (ja) (honruida)
Korean: 홈런 (ko) (homneon), 본루타 (bolluta)
Russian: хоум-ра́н m (xoum-rán), хомя́к (ru) m (xomják) (slang)
Spanish: jonrón m, cuadrangular (es) (slang)
Tagalog: lubig

portion of a journey that ends at home

Finnish: kotimatka (fi)

success

Finnish: menestys (fi)

sexual intercourse

Finnish: pano (fi)

See also

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