homer

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hom·er /ˈhəʊmə $ ˈhoʊmər/ noun [countable]  American English informalDSB a home run in baseball 〔棒球运动的〕本垒打，全垒打 —homer verb [intransitive]

Examples from the Corpus

homer• He played in 133 games, hitting. 291 with 26 homers and 80 RBIs.• McGwire belted 65 homers to lead the majors in 1999.• His 70 homers that season captured the attention of even non-baseball fans.• This is where Reggie Jackson hit a homer on to the upper deck roof in 1971.• After five games, Thome is 1-for-10 with no homers or RBIs.• He hit a two-run homer in the second inning and a three-run homer in the third.• Robby Thompson, who hit a two-run homer Sunday, still finished the first half in a 2-for-27 slump.• Klesko and Chipper Jones both have two homers in the series...nHomer  na Greek poet who probably lived around 800 to 700 years bc. He is known as a very great poet and for his two epic poems, the iliad and the odyssey, which tell the stories of characters such as achilles and odysseus and the Greek war against Troy, which have had great influence on European literature. —Homeric /həʊˈmerɪk $ hoʊ-/ adjective

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a Corpus baseball home in run

Homer

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Homer
a Greek poet who probably lived around 800 to 700 years BC. He is known as a very great poet and for his two epic poems, the Iliad and the odyssey, which tell the stories of characters such as Achilles and Odysseus and the Greek war against Troy, which have had great influence on European literature.
—Homeric /həʊˈmerɪk $ hoʊ-/ adjective

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Homer, Wins‧low /ˈwɪnzləʊ/
(1836–1910) a US painter, known especially for his paintings of the sea and people connected with the sea

homer
hom‧er /ˈhəʊmə $ ˈhoʊmər/ noun [countable]
American English informal a home run in baseball
—homer verb [intransitive]

homerBrE /ˈhəʊmə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈhoʊmər/ 🔊 noun (NAmE, informal) = home run ◆He hit a homer. 他击出了一记本垒打。🔊🔊