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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke" [syn: fastball, heater, smoke, hummer, bullet]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1899 a baseball pitch thrown at full speed and often rising slightly as it nears the plate • fastballer noun

Moby Thesaurus

bowl, cast, change of pace, change-up, chuck, chunk, curve, downcurve, fling, flip, forward pass, heave, hurl, incurve, knuckleball, lateral, lateral pass, lob, outcurve, pass, peg, pitch, put, screwball, serve, service, shot-put, shy, sinker, slider, sling, spitball, spitter, throw, toss, upcurve