Base on balls (bases on balls, bases-on-balls) (original) (raw)
Irregular inflected forms: bases on balls 
, bases-on-balls
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
Example:
he worked the pitcher for a base on balls
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("base on balls" is a kind of...):
accomplishment; achievement (the action of accomplishing something)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)