cadillacing

cadillacing
 v.— «He moved to his right to catch a fly out, but Greg Gagne surprisingly tagged from first base and reached second when Griffey’s threw was too soft and wide. “I don’t like him ’Cadillacing’ like that,” he said. “It may be an insignificant play but a guy can’t take it for granted that just because they have a five-run lead doesn’t mean they’re not going to be aggressive.”» —“Coming Apart Or Pulling Together?” Seattle Times Aug. 28, 1989. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

Leave a comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Further reading

Name for the Button on the Top of a Baseball Cap

That little button on top of a baseball cap? Some people call it a squatchee or a squatcho, the latter popularized by comedian Rich Hall’s book Sniglets (Amazon), which features apt but made-up words that aren’t in any dictionary. This is part of a...

Baseball Cheese

Why do baseball announcers say that a pitcher who throws a high fast ball is bringing high cheese? The cheese might be related to big cheese, a term that in turn may go back to Hindi and related languages where chiz means “thing.” This...

Recent posts