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noun Baseball.

a measure of the effectiveness of a batter in making base hits, obtained by dividing the total bases reached by hitting by the number of official times at bat and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A batter making 275 total bases in 500 times at bat has a slugging average of .550.

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Also called slugging percentage.

Compare batting average.

Origin of slugging average

First recorded in 1965–70

Words nearby slugging average

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How to use slugging average in a sentence

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Ramos was 38—nearly two decades older than the average recruit.
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All because Murthy believes that gun violence, which kills an average of 86 Americans every day, is a public health issue.
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I do not think the average number of passengers on a corresponding route in our country could be so few as twenty.
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Though the average speaker is generally limited by one type of voice, which he varies somewhat, it is not often disguised.
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He was a pretty bright sort, that same Goodell, quick-witted, nimble of tongue above the average Englishman.
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