at-bat (n.)

"baseball player's turn at the plate," 1912, originally a column heading in statistics tables, from the prepositional phrase.

also from 1912

adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. Ngrams are probably unreliable.

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updated on October 10, 2017

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