📚 noun • entry_id 27050
curveball
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ajuaishte • bola curva
A forespin pitch thrown by rotating the index and middle fingers down and resulting in motion down "curve"
Caglianone ripped Miles Mikolas’ curveball into the right-field corner for an RBI double that scored Salvador Perez in the fourth inning of the first game of a doubleheader against…
He bit on a curveball in the dirt.
algo inesperado • algo no anticipado
An unexpected turn of events initiated by an opponent or chance; an exception or outlier.
Life has thrown him a few curveballs.
The season’s first episode, “Bart Gets an F,” got the highest ratings in its history, but “Treehouse of Horror” was the real curveball: a genre-busting effort that proudly punched…
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