cement mixer
Americannoun
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Also called concrete mixer. a machine having a revolving drum, often motor-driven, for mixing cement, sand, gravel, and water to produce concrete.
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Baseball Slang. a pitch that is meant to be an unhittable breaking ball but instead becomes hittable as it goes into a side spin that travels into the strike zone.
Lyons hit a stand-up double on that cement mixer, and he looked just as surprised as the pitcher when it happened.
Etymology
Origin of cement mixer
First recorded in 1905–10 cement mixer for def. 1, and in 2005–10 cement mixer for def. 2
Example Sentences
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A cement mixer trundles toward a construction site.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025
They could harmonise with a cement mixer and make it sound beautiful.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2023
“We could not get a cement mixer down there. So with a crew of about a dozen folks, we carried two buckets each of concrete down those wooden stairs, and poured it for the foundation.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 3, 2021
His role was to throw milk bottles into a cement mixer.
From The Guardian • May 18, 2020
It felt like I was swimming inside a cement mixer.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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