Usually means: High-speed, straight baseball pitch.
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  1. fastball: Merriam-Webster
  2. fastball: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fastball: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fastball: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fastball: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fastball, fastball: Wordnik
  7. fastball: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fastball: Wiktionary
  9. fastball: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fastball: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fastball: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fastball: Dictionary.com
  13. fastball: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Fastball (band), Fastball: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. fastball: Rhymezone
  16. fastball: FreeDictionary.org
  17. fastball: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. fastball: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. fastball: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. fastball: Encyclopedia

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  1. Fastball: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fastball: Sports Definitions

(Note: See fastballer as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A high-speed pitch of a baseball.
noun:  (specifically) A four-seam fastball, which is a backspin pitch thrown with a ball gripped in the direction to cause four of the seams of the ball to cross the flight path and released with roughly equal pressure by the index and middle fingers
verb:  (transitive) To throw (something) at a high speed.

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