baseliner in British English
(ˈbeɪsˌlaɪnə)
noun
tennis
a player who plays most of his or her shots from the back of court
baseliner in American English
(ˈbeisˌlainər)
noun
Tennis
a player who typically plays near the baseline using ground strokes, as distinguished from one who typically goes to the net
Word origin
[1900–05; baseline + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Young Turk, burnout, cathode-ray tube, hookup, hormone-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)Image ofbaseliner
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