rundown
noun
- situation in baseball when a runner is stranded between bases, and likely to be tagged out whether trying to advance or return to base
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌndaʊn/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English run downdeverb. English rundown Deverbal from run down.
- Alternative form of run-down.
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English run downdeverb. English rundown Deverbal from run down.
- A rough outline of a topic or situation.
“Could you give me the rundown on the new rules?”
- A summary of the horses to be raced on a particular day, with their weights, jockeys, odds, etc.
“Comes post-time, and I am at the bookie joint listening the running descriptions and rundowns, […]”
“I would say this: If you are in a community where you do not have the rundown sheet on the horses in the race, do what they have done in Sacramento.”
- A defensive play in which the runner is caught between two fielders, who steadily converge to tag the runner out.
“Smith is caught in a rundown, but Jones will come around to score.”
- A Caribbean stew of meat or fish (typically mackerel) with reduced coconut milk, yam, tomato, onion and seasonings.
- A reduction, e.g. of an activity, or in the size of something, such as a fleet.
“The rundown of LNER's Class 91/Mk 4 fleet continues, with two more locomotives sent for store at Doncaster and a rake of coaches moving to Worksop,”