grip (something, typically someone’s flesh) tightly and sharply between finger and thumb
substitute for another as a base runner, typically at a critical point in the game
a place or point where congestion occurs or is likely to occur, especially on a road
the constriction of a plasma through which a large electric current is flowing, caused by the attractive force of the current’s own magnetic field
used to convey that a good situation is so surprising that the person involved has to make sure they are not imagining it
regard something as exaggerated; believe only part of something