twi-night Baseball.
(ˈtwaɪnaɪt)
[Blend of twilight n. and night n.]
(See quot. 1955.) Freq. attrib., as twi-night double-header (cf. double-header c). Hence ˈtwi-nighter, in same sense.
| 1939 Amer. Speech XIV. 5 Blending..has proved practical in the formation of useful compounds where a combination of ideas is desired; as in..‘brunch’, ‘twinight’, ‘Anglamerican’. 1953 Sun (Baltimore) 28 Oct. (b ed.) 21/2 (heading) Twi-nighters? 1955 M. Reifer Dict. New Words 214/2 Twinight, n. Baseball, a double-header game which begins in the afternoon and continues into the night with artificial illumination. 1975 New Yorker 17 Nov. 148/2 The pitching left something to be desired, but the next afternoon, in the opener of a twi-night doubleheader, Frank Tanana struck out seventeen Texas batters. 1980 N.Y. Post 4 Aug. 56 The Mets are still—again—two games under .500 and twi-night double⁓header here tonight..opens another five-game series against the division-leading Expos. |