farm team
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.70 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A minor league baseball, ice hockey or other sports team, especially one concerned with player development.
Slang
Etymology
A reference to the fact that many minor league teams in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were in small towns in rural areas.