laser beam
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See also: laserbeam
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Noun[edit]
laser beam (plural laser beams)
- The light emitted by a laser.
- 1994, Stephen G. Brown, Medical Applications of Lasers II, page 2:
- Depending on whether the laser beam is defocused or focused, the CO2 laser can perform two distinct therapeuteic functions.
- (baseball) A low, hard-hit or -thrown ball.
- 2005, Dallas Woodburn, 3 A.m.: A Collection of Short Stories, iUniverse, →ISBN:
- The batter hit a laser-beam to right field. A run for Cincinnati! Now the score was five to three.
- 2009, P.J. Dragseth, Eye for Talent: Interviews with Veteran Baseball Scouts, McFarland, →ISBN, page 37:
- When in doubt, so I threw my best fastball. Mantle hit a laser beam past my right knee.
- 2010, Josh Wilker, Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards, Seven Footer Press, →ISBN:
- The way he warmed up his famous arm by throwing laser beams out of a sleepy, feline half-windup to some bullpen lackey armed with the added protection of a catcher's mitt.
- 2012, Paul Kocak, Baseball's Starry Night: Reliving Major League Baseball's 2011 Wild Card Night of Shock and Awe, Digitature, →ISBN, page 152:
- Just as he finished that sentence, Evan Longoria hit a laser beam over the left field fence. The Red Sox season was over in a flash.
- 2013, Roy Blount Jr., About Three Bricks Shy...And the Load Filled Up, Ballantine Books, →ISBN:
- One reason the rookies weren't catching too many was that Bradshaw was throwing laser beams.
- 2014, Scott Simkus, Outsider Baseball: The Weird World of Hardball on the Fringe, 1876–1950, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 116:
- The Bloomer Girls played a respectable brand of baseball, to be sure, but they didn't throw 350-foot laser beams from deep center, or chew Red Man during ballgames.
Synonyms[edit]
- (baseball): rocket, bullet, laser, frozen rope
Translations[edit]
light from a laser
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