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bush leaguer

[ boosh lee-ger ]

noun

  1. Also called busher. Baseball.
    1. a player in a minor league.
    2. an incompetent player who behaves or plays as if they belonged in a minor league.
  2. a person who performs at an inferior level or in an inferior manner.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bush leaguer1

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10
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A veteran bush leaguer making about $700 a few months of the year.

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Now you quit seeing this seventy-five-dollars-a-month bush leaguer or leave this house.

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