home run

See also: homerun

English

Alternative forms

• homerun

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): [hɔʊːm ɹʌn]

• Audio (Australian):

  (file)

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. (pesäpallo) A three-base hit, a legal hit where the batter gets to third base without stopping illegally and without the opposing team attempting to put the batter out on earlier bases, scoring one run immediately.
4. (figurative) The portion of a journey that ends at home.

   I'm on the home run.

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

   The product was a home run.

6. (slang, figurative, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
7. (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
• Japanese: ホームラン (hōmuran)
• Korean: 홈런 (homneon)
• Russian: хоум-ра́н (xoum-rán)

Translations

(baseball) four-base hit

• Bulgarian: хоумрън m (houmrǎn)
• 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 (ja) (hōmuran), 本塁打 (ja) (honruida)
• Korean: 홈런 (ko) (homneon), 본루타 (bolluta)
• Portuguese: home run m
• Russian: хоум-ра́н m (xoum-rán), хомя́к (ru) m (xomják) (slang)
• Spanish: jonrón (es) m, cuadrangular (es) m, tablazo (es) m, toletazo m, vuelacerca (es) m, vuelacercas (es) m, home run m (Latin America)
• Tagalog: lubig

portion of a journey that ends at home

• Finnish: kotimatka (fi)

success

• Bulgarian: хит (bg) m (hit)
• Finnish: menestys (fi)

sexual intercourse

• Bulgarian: секс (bg) m (seks)
• Finnish: pano (fi)

See also

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