also: ノーダン
Baseball term meaning there are no outs in the current inning. Wasei-eigo from English 'no down'.
wasei-eigo (Japanese-coined English), from no down
There's a runner on first with no outs.
We want to capitalize on this no-out opportunity.
Shortened colloquial form, common in casual baseball talk.
Explicitly hyphenated spelling, rarely used in practice.
Hyphenated version of the shortened form, very rare.
Wasei-eigo from English 'no down', where 'down' is used in the baseball sense of 'out'.