throw BBs
English
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.
Verb
throw BBs (third-person singular simple present throws BBs, present participle throwing BBs, simple past and past participle threw BBs)
- (baseball) To pitch exceedingly well, especially with high velocity pitches.
- 2003, Mickey McDermott, Howard Eisenberg, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cooperstown:
- But when I get up at the plate, he's throwing BBs at me. He strikes me out twice.
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