Blooper
Great new edition of the newsletter, Dave, particularly the baseball-related words. MWO gives the above as originally a baseball term; when did it acquire its more general meaning?
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The baseball term (meaning a ball hit softly to the infield, a Texas-leager) dates to 1937. The general sense meaning an error dates to 1947.The general sense first appears in radio slang. It probably...
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