English Explanatory Dictionary

NOBLETIGER

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A situation in which a baseball team, despite the team's runners occupying all three bases before a single out was recorded, is unable to score any runs from those three runners returning to the home plate before the inning ends.

Word forms

NOBLETIGER NOBLETIGERs

Etymology

Acronym of no outs, bases loaded, ending with team incapable of getting easy run. Coined by Detroit Tigers fans in a 2018 Reddit thread as a play on their team's name.

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