Altuve
English edit
Etymology edit
After José Altuve, Venezuelan-American baseball player who stands five feet, five inches tall.
Noun edit
Altuve (plural Altuves)
- (baseball, slang) A distance of five feet and five inches, used chiefly as a unit to measure distances of home run balls.
- 2014 June 30, Bob Nightengale, “Diminutive dandy: Jose Altuve keeps reaching new heights”, in USA Today:
- So, if you want to know the minimum length of a World Cup Soccer field while watching TV, it's 60.9 Altuves.
- 2015, Uncle John's FACTASTIC Bathroom Reader, →ISBN:
- In 2012 Houston Astros fan Bryan Trostel was watching a game when he heard the announcers joke about how many “altuves” a home run had traveled.
- 2017 October 13, Victor Mather, “David vs. Goliath Gets an Update: It's Now Altuve vs. Judge”, in New York Times:
- Judge is 1.22 Altuves. Is there a drawback to being a big man in baseball?
- 2018 February 20, Kate Preusser, Isabelle Minasian, Tim Cantu, Connor Donovan, “2018 AL West Preview: The Astros’ Lineup”, in Lookout Landing:
- No matter how you slice it, Altuve is one of the best hitters in baseball despite yielding at least 7 inches (that’s about .108 Altuves) to every other elite hitter.
- 2018 June 1, Melanie Hauser, “Ways to recover from the Rockets' loss”, in Houston Chronicle:
- Want to know how many Altuves there are from home plate to first base? That would be 16.61436219309581.