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ˈsqueeze play
Also squeeze-play.
[f. squeeze v. + play n.]
1. a. Baseball. A tactic whereby the batter bunts so that a runner at third base can attempt to reach home safely and score.
1905St. Louis Globe-Democrat 2 July II. 8/5 Like the spit ball, the squeeze play is not strictly an invention of the present season. 1909Collier's 15 May 29/2 The ‘squeeze’ play, of which we have heard so much in the past two or three years, is the method of scoring a man from third base on the hit-and-run system. 1949Chicago Tribune 27 Sept. ii. 1/8 The mighty sox..had to resort to the squeeze play to score their all-important victory. 1979Arizona Daily Star 22 July c 4/4 Not many pitchers throw inside anymore. It's like the squeeze play. It's a lost art.
b. transf. and fig. An act of coercion or ‘pressurizing’; the application of force or pressure to obtain an end. colloq. (chiefly U.S.).
1916Independent (N.Y.) 5 June 410 (heading) The ‘squeeze-play’ at the capital. 1932Sun (Baltimore) 14 Sept. 10/1 Most employers of relatively small numbers of workers, they appear to have been caught in an economic ‘squeeze play’ in which ‘contract’ shops..are played against each other in pursuit of the lowest bids. 1944D. Wecter When Johnny comes marching Home iv. vii. 557 You perhaps mentioned the fact that Hitler was putting the squeeze play on Hindenburg a few years later. 1966Economist 10 Sept. 1009/1 The real victims of the Franco government's squeeze-play—the Spaniards whose prospects of being allowed to go on crossing the border daily to work in Gibraltar are now in jeopardy. 1977D. Anthony Stud Game xx. 122 She hinted that her partner had worked this squeeze-play once before, with..a pregnant girl..and a widow who paid off.
2. Bridge. The employment of a squeeze. Cf. squeeze n. 1 e.
1926Work-Whitehead Auction Bridge Bull. May 50 The squeeze play is made when running a suit, by forcing an opponent to discard a number of times. 1934G. F. Hervey Contract Bridge Dict. 139 Squeeze Play is the basis of practically all double-dummy problems. 1959T. Reese Bridge Player's Dict. 209 The technique of squeeze play is complicated, and even in the simplest three-card ending..certain basic elements have to be present, such as threat cards, entries, a squeeze card and correct timing. 1976Country Life 19 Feb. 440/2 South did not understand squeeze play... When the Nine of Clubs falls from East, the squeeze against West is marked. |