Associations to the word «Ballpark»

Wiktionary

BALLPARK, noun. (US) A field, stadium or park where ball, especially baseball, is played.
BALLPARK, noun. (US) (figuratively) The general vicinity; somewhere close; a broad approximation.
BALLPARK, adjective. Approximate; close; on the right order of magnitude.
BALLPARK, verb. To make a rough estimate.
BALLPARK ESTIMATE, noun. (idiomatic) A ballpark figure, a very rough approximation.
BALLPARK ESTIMATES, noun. Plural of ballpark estimate
BALLPARK FIGURE, noun. (chiefly US) (idiomatic) An educated guess or estimation within acceptable bounds.
BALLPARK FIGURES, noun. Plural of ballpark figure
BALLPARK FRANK, noun. An oversized hotdog served at stadium games, particularly baseball, football, American football and rugby.

Dictionary definition

BALLPARK, noun. A facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games); "take me out to the ballpark".
BALLPARK, noun. Near to the scope or range of something; "his answer wasn't even in the right ballpark".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope