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Definition of Southpaw

1. Noun. A baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand.

2. Noun. A person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right. "Their pitcher was a southpaw"

Definition of Southpaw

1. a. Using the left hand in pitching; said of a pitcher.

2. n. A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.

Definition of Southpaw

1. Noun. (informal) One who is left-handed, especially in sports. ¹

2. Noun. (baseball) A left-handed pitcher. ¹

3. Noun. A left-handed writer who, instead of mirroring right-handed writers, turn his or her hand upsidedown in order to put the writing implement in the same position as right-handed writers. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Southpaw

1. a left-handed person [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Southpaw

southernness southernnesses southerns southernwood southernwoods southers southing southings southland southlands

southly southness southnesses southpaw (current term) southpaws southren southron southrons souths southsaid

southsay southsayer southsayers southsaying southsays southside southward southwardly

Literary usage of Southpaw

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. How to Play Baseball: A Manual for Boys by John Joseph McGraw (1914)
"... according to whether the man is a southpaw or a right handed pitcher, is swung in a short circle,, with the muscles of the arm and body re-. laxed. ..."

2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"Detroit's two siege guns deployed from the dugout and the southpaw towering on the mound flashed his old-time smile as Cobb scraped the last bit of turf ..."

3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1912)
"White, Chicago's great "southpaw," was pitching, and the Sox were leading i to о in the ninth. Detroit had O'Leary on first base and two out. ..."

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