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Closer

nounid 25125·updated May 18, 2026
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(baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game

polysemous

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Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
finisher
plural
Closers
possessive
Closer's
pluralpossessive
Closers'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
a person who closes something
§2
(baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
(baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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