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Southpaw Moderate

Southpaw has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand

2

a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right

"their pitcher was a southpaw"

3

One who is left-handed, especially in sports.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
pitcher person

Origin

The term "southpaw" combines "south" and "paw," originally referring to a left-handed pitcher whose arm faced south when standing on an east-facing mound in 19th-century ballparks designed to avoid the afternoon sun. While this baseball usage became common by 1813, earlier slang from the 1840s may have applied the word to a left-handed punch in boxing.

Rhyming Words
paw papaw pawpaw peepaw quapaw paw paw hindpaw forepaw grandpaw northpaw cat's paw paddy paw pussy paw tiger paw bear's paw chicken paw kangaroo paw
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