bat five hundred

English

Etymology

From the practice of reckoning the batting average of a hitter in baseball in thousandths.

Pronunciation
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Verb

bat five hundred (third-person singular simple present bats five hundred, present participle batting five hundred, simple past and past participle batted five hundred)

  1. (idiomatic) To be successful half of the time; to have a success rate of 50%.
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