change-up
- n a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball
- In a TV debate on election eve, O'Malley went on as the final speaker after two hours of shrill argument and ill-tempered accusations, and once again he threw his change-up.
- The advantage in later years, when I became a player of the game of catch, was that I was all motion and no speed--a change-up artist with nothing to change up on--so that the .
- Goodman, an award-winning rabble rouser whose show is carried by 30-some stations, does not have a change-up.