a good-for-nothing bounder who always leaves it to someone else to pick up the tab
Recent Examples on the WebUrías then allowed a high bounder by Yu Chang to get by for a two-base error.—Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Sep. 2021 Austin hit a bounder which filtered through Gandil’s mitt in the eighth.—Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2020 Though Lance has fun playing a bounder and cad of the first order, the script doesn’t particularly need him.—Jonathan Holland, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2017
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