homer noun [C] (BASEBALL)
US informal
hit a homer That season he hit 43 homers.
homer noun [C] (JOB)
Scottish English informal
Meaning of homer in English
(Definition of homer from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of homer
homer
The "four solo homers" in a shutout victory sets a major league record.
He also hit his 20th career leadoff homer, becoming the 34th player in major league baseball history to have hit at least 20.
He homered twice and did not commit a single error while playing catcher.
He hit 13 homers as leadoff hitter, created a new record of local players.
In doing so, he becomes the secondyoungest player in big league history to reach 300 homers for his career, at 28 years and 143 days.
The five teams combined to hit 408 home runs, which tripled the number of homers hit during a regular season.
Gomes worked the count to 22 before he broke the tie with a three-run homer that would become the difference in the game.
He finished his career in 1953 with eight pinch homers.
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