How to pronounce ballpark
American English pronunciation
BAWL-park
- IPA
- /ˈbɔlˌpɑɹk/
- Syllables
- BAWL · park (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What ballpark means
Roughly right, as a quick guess
In a sentence: Give me a ballpark number for how many marbles are in the jar.
Where it comes from: It was first a name for a baseball field. The "roughly right" meaning grew out of the phrase ballpark figure.
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