called strike

American  

noun

Baseball.

1. a pitch not swung at by a batter but ruled a strike by the umpire.

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Etymology

Origin of called strike

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Example Sentences

He gives no number of military losses, but discloses that children of people within his "close" circle have fought for so-called private military companies, and a number of people "close to me" have died.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2023

"The so-called private home is not a private home," a senior Israeli air force officer told reporters in a recent briefing.

From Reuters • Oct. 26, 2023

Gartner also applied a strict definition of infrastructure services that included only so-called public cloud services and disallowed so-called private cloud; that is, it excluded services dedicated exclusively to specific customers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 7, 2016

IBM’s revenue total, analysts say, also includes cloud-related services and even hardware used in setting up cloud computing environments that companies own themselves, so-called private clouds.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2014

Another thing that has induced foreigners to become postal savings depositors is the disastrous experiences many of them have had with so-called "private banks," usually operated by people of their own tongue.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur