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Double play   /dˈəbəl pleɪ/   Listen
Double play

noun
1.
The act of getting two players out on one play.





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"Double play" Quotes from Famous Books



... double play!" he exulted, for the man going to first had stumbled slightly, and was out of his stride. It looked as though it could be done. But alas for the hopes of Yale! The fielder got the ball fairly in his hands, but whether he was nervous, or whether the ball had such speed that it tore through, ...
— Andy at Yale - The Great Quadrangle Mystery • Roy Eliot Stokes
... the reality which is created, is vital activity, of which spiritual activity represents the highest form; and the spray which falls is the creative act which falls, it is reality which is undone, it is matter and inertia. In a word, the supreme law of genesis and fall, the double play of which constitutes the universe, comprises a ...
— A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson • Edouard le Roy


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