laser beam
Noun
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Noun
laser beam (plural laser beams)
- The light emitted by a laser.
- 1994, Stephen G. Brown - Medical Applications of Lasers II page 2 ↗
- Depending on whether the laser beam is defocused or focused, the CO2 laser can perform two distinct therapeuteic functions.
- 1994, Stephen G. Brown - Medical Applications of Lasers II page 2 ↗
- (baseball) A low, hard-hit or -thrown ball.
- 1995, Russell Schneider, Glorious Indian Summer of 1995: Season of Dreams...Cleveland, page 44 ↗, ISBN 0964981300
- Ramirez hit a laser beam home run into the right center field seats leading the 10th inning off Boston closer Ken Ryan
- 2005, Dallas Woodburn, 3 A.m.: A Collection of Short Stories, iUniverse ISBN 9780595357864
- The batter hit a laser-beam to right field. A run for Cincinnati! Now the score was five to three.
- 2009, P.J. Dragseth, Eye for Talent: Interviews with Veteran Baseball Scouts, McFarland ISBN 9780786458134, page 37
- When in doubt, so I threw my best fastball. Mantle hit a laser beam past my right knee.
- 2010, Josh Wilker, Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards, Seven Footer Press ISBN 9781934734162
- The way he warmed up his famous arm by throwing laser beams out of a sleepy, feline half-windup to some bullpen lackey armed with the added protection of a catcher's mitt.
- 2012, Paul Kocak, Baseball's Starry Night: Reliving Major League Baseball's 2011 Wild Card Night of Shock and Awe, Digitature ISBN 9780615622309, page 152
- Just as he finished that sentence, Evan Longoria hit a laser beam over the left field fence. The Red Sox season was over in a flash.
- 2013, Roy Blount Jr., About Three Bricks Shy...And the Load Filled Up, Ballantine Books ISBN 9780307829924
- One reason the rookies weren't catching too many was that Bradshaw was throwing laser beams.
- 2014, Scott Simkus, Outsider Baseball: The Weird World of Hardball on the Fringe, 1876–1950, Chicago Review Press ISBN 9781613748190, page 116
- The Bloomer Girls played a respectable brand of baseball, to be sure, but they didn't throw 350-foot laser beams from deep center, or chew Red Man during ballgames.
- 1995, Russell Schneider, Glorious Indian Summer of 1995: Season of Dreams...Cleveland, page 44 ↗, ISBN 0964981300
- (baseball) rocket, bullet, laser, frozen rope
- French: rayon laser
- German: Laserstrahl
- Portuguese: raio laser
- Russian: ла́зерный луч
- Spanish: rayo láser
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