Usually means: Pitch close to batter, warning.
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General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. brush back: Merriam-Webster
  2. brush back: Dictionary.com
  3. brush back: TheFreeDictionary.com
  4. brush back: Wiktionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brush back: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brush back: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brush back: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brush back: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BRUSH BACK, brush-back: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (brush back)

verb:  (transitive, baseball) To throw a brushback pitch at (a batter).
verb:  (figurative, intransitive) To respond to criticism or arguments; to defend oneself against criticism.


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