- minor league
- any small or second-rate sphere of activity, etc.
bush league
bush-league bush league
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bush league
noun
SportsA minor league.
Related Forms:
- bush leaguer
noun
bush-league
adjective
- Baseball Of or belonging to a minor league.
- Slang Of inferior or unprofessional quality; second-rate: a bush-league advertising campaign.
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Noun
(plural bush leagues)
- (chiefly US, idiomatic) A professional sports association at the lower levels of minor league organization.
- (figuratively, by extension) A low-ranking or inferior level among groups, professions, organizations, etc.
Adjective
(comparative more bush league, superlative most bush league)
- Having inferior quality.
- Amateurish.
Adjective
(comparative more bush-league, superlative most bush-league)
- (US) Minor-league; second-rate.
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