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home plate
uncountable noun
In baseball, home plate is the piece of rubber or other material that the batter stands beside. It is thelast of the four bases that a runner must touch in order to score a run.
He severely injured his ankle in a collision at home plate.
home plate in British English
noun
baseball
a flat often five-sided piece of hard rubber or other material that serves to define the area over which the pitcher must throw the ball for a strike and that a base runner must safely reach on the way from third base to score a run
Also called: plate, home, home basehome plate in American English
US
Baseball
the base that the batter stands beside and over which the pitcher must throw the ball for a strike: it is the last base that a base runner must reach safely to score a run
see also base1 (sense 9)Image ofhome plate
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