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intentional walk

Speech parts

1. intentional walk - Noun

2. intentional walk - Verb

Meaning

intentional walk (plural intentional walks)

(baseball) The intentional pitching of four balls (bad pitches), or of a fourth ball, in order to give the batter a walk (for example, so as to avoid the risk of a home run).
Jones was given an intentional walk in order to face Smith.

intentional walk (third-person singular simple present intentional walks, present participle intentional walking, simple past and past participle intentional walked)

(baseball, nonstandard) To intentionally walk; to give a batter an intentional walk.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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