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Definition of Bullpen
1. Noun. A place on a baseball field where relief pitchers can warm up during a game.
2. Noun. A large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily.
Definition of Bullpen
1. Noun. An enclosed area used to hold bulls. ¹
2. Noun. (baseball) An enclosed area for pitchers to warm up in during a game. ¹
3. Noun. (baseball) The relief pitchers of a team collectively. ¹
4. Noun. ''(metaphorical)'' A figurative place for someone or something to get ready ¹
5. Noun. An open seating arrangement where project teams can communicate openly with minimal effort. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bullpen
1. an enclosure for bulls [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bullpen
Literary usage of Bullpen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. County Reports and Maps: Wirt, Roane and Calhoun Counties by Ray Vernon Hennen, W. J. Latimer, F. N. Meeker (1911)
"bullpen bullpen Oil Co. Carter Carter Oil Co. Columbia Columbia Electric Gas Co.
Fisher Fisher Oil Co. Hamilton Hamilton Oil Co. Hope Hope Natural Gas Co. ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1912)
"Today the bullpen is empty. The dungeon is empty too. Those fourteen prisoners,
or most of them, are at work on a public road twenty miles from the prison ..."
3. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl Lotus Becker (1908)
"Pleading of American labor at the throne of capitalism is answered with the
injunction, the blacklist and the military bullpen. I appeal to you, ..."
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