home run

See also: homerun

English

Alternative forms

• homerun

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

home run (plural home runs)

2. (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.

3. (figurative) The portion of a journey that ends at home.

   I'm on the home run.

4. (figurative) A success, especially a popular success.

   The product was a home run.

5. (colloquial) Sexual intercourse.
6. (electrical engineering) A connection from a central distribution point or circuit breaker to a destination.

Derived terms

• Chinese home run
• hit a home run
• Little League home run

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

• single
• double
• triple
• grand slam
• home stretch
• smash hit