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Mudville

Pronunciation: /ˈmʌdvɪl/
Definition of Mudville

noun

[mass noun] North American
  • (in sport, especially baseball) used with reference to the emotions felt by fans or a team according to the outcome of a game:there was joy in Mudville following the Vancouver Bar Association league ‘A’ division championship

Origin:

the name of a fictional town in E. L. Thayer's poem ‘Casey at the Bat’ (1888), which features the defeat of its baseball team

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Definition of Mudville in the US English dictionary
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