home run

English

Noun

home run (plural home runs)

1. (baseball) A four-base hit, a homer

   The first baseman hit a home run to lead off the ninth.

2. (idiomatic) The portion of a journey that ends at home

   I'm on the home run.

3. (idiomatic) A success; especially, a popular success.

   The product was a home run.

4. (idiomatic) Sexual intercourse.

Translations

(baseball) four-base hit

• Finnish: kunnari (fi)
• French: coup de circuit (fr), circuit (fr) m
• Italian: fuoricampo (it)

• Japanese: ホームラン (ja) (hōmuran), 本塁打 (ja) (honruida)
• Russian: хоум-ран (ru) (xoum-ran) m, хомяк (ru) (xomjak) m (slang)
• Spanish: jonrón (es) m

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

Synonyms

• score
• go all the way