Sharply hit baseball

The answer

LINER

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LINER answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LINER

Every other clue in this collection answered by LINER, most used first.

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• Cruise vessel - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Hard-hit baseball - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Ship. - used 13 times, most recently in 2002
• Large ocean vessel - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Ocean greyhound - used 10 times, most recently in 1993
• Vessel. - used 10 times, most recently in 1995
• Hard-hit ball - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
• Big ship - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Eye makeup - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Big boat - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Passenger ship - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Protective covering - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• QE2, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Trash can insert - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Big hit - SMASH, used 75 times
• Hit hard - SMITE, used 35 times
• Huge hit - SMASH, used 35 times
• Up, in baseball - ATBAT, used 32 times
• 1972 Bill Withers hit - USEME, used 31 times
• Baseball commissioner Bud - SELIG, used 31 times

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