ぼうとう

See also: ほうとう, ほうどう, and ぼうどう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ぼうとう – see the following entries.

【冒頭】 [noun] [from the 1880s] the lead-in, the head, the introductory portion, the beginning of a text [noun] [from the early 1900s] the beginning (more generally) [verb] to lead into a text, to make introductory remarks

【暴投】 [noun] (baseball) wild pitch [verb] (baseball) to throw a wild pitch

【暴騰】 [noun] sharp increase in price/value [verb] to increase sharply in price/value

(This term, ぼうとう (bōtō), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)

(The following entry is uncreated: 防盗.)