Meaning of on deck | Babel Free

Definitions

1. On the deck of a ship, especially of a captain or officer; in charge.
2. Being the batter who will be up next, typically when that player is waiting on the field.

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Examples

“In every sense of the expression he is ‘on deck’; but my Jim, for the most part, skulked down below as though he had been a stowaway.”

“Jones is the on-deck batter.”

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