Meaning of piggy move up | Babel Free

Definitions

An informal game of baseball or softball, without separate teams, in which players take turns playing the different positions.

US, uncountable

Examples

“[The] burlesque broads from next door […] got bored in their dressing rooms. So they’d come out in the street and play baseball. […] They played piggy-move-up—softball.”

“He almost never thinks of the future, though he understands in an unformulated way that he will eventually grow up, will comb his hair back with water, and join the big boys in the back lane playing Piggy Move Up.”

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