Sand-lot

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  sandlot \sand"lot\, Sand-lot \Sand"-lot`\, a.
     1. Lit., of or pert. to a lot or piece of sandy ground, --
        hence, pert. to, or characteristic of, the policy or
        practices of the socialistic or communistic followers of
        the Irish agitator Denis Kearney, who delivered many of
        his speeches in the open sand lots about San Francisco;


        as, the
  
     {sand-lot constitution} of California, framed in 1879, under
        the influence of sand-lot agitation.
  
     2. of or pertaining to a sandlot; -- used especially in
        reference to informal games played by children; as,
        sandlot baseball.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  sandlot \sand"lot\ (s[a^]nd"l[o^]t), n.
     a vacant lot, especially one where children play games.
     [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sandlot
       n : a vacant lot used by city boys to play games