The earliest reference I have foundto a small ball park being a called a bandbox is from John Updike, who wrote in New Yorker magazine in 1960: "Fenway Park is a little lyrical bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus like the inside of an old fashioned Easter Egg. It was built in 1912 and rebuilt in 1934 and offers, as do most Boston artifacts, a compromise between man's Euclidean determinations and nature's beguiling irregularities."
Bean is slang for head. In baseball, if you hear the term 'beanball', it means the pitcher is throwing at the batter's head.
thin legged
It comes from "total" + "authoritarian," or "total authoritarianism."
Absolutely. But the slang back then was quite different from the slang today. Throughout history, there has always been slang, as well as various metaphors and similes and other idiomatic expressions. You will even see in many of Shakespeare's plays that he uses puns, idioms, and slang.
Eponymy is the derivation of a word from a name.
You use bases.
Out of the Bandbox - 1953 is rated/received certificates of: UK:U
A bandbox is a variety of lightweight construction used for carrying hats or other apparel.
"slang meaning "something exciting or excellent" first attested 1953, from earlier hepster slang gasser in the same sense (1944)" from http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Gas
"Story of the Bandbox" was created in 1904 by Katharine Newlin Burt. It is a short story that tells the comedic tale of a mix-up involving a hatbox.
The cast of Bandbox Holiday - 1963 includes: Valerie Croft as Nancy Aziz Filali as Ahmed
The etymology of etymology is from the greek etumologia which means "true sense of a word"
It is difficult to pinpoint a single individual who invented slang, as it has evolved over time and across different cultures. Slang is essentially informal language that is constantly changing and adapting to reflect shifts in society, popular culture, and technology.
It means "a rude wild Boy or Girl" originally applied to Polish (Poles). Common enough in the 1700's that it is found in a slang dictionary of that time.
No hitter
The answer to the question what a ' Cup of Coffee' is in baseball slang is, it is a terminology for a short time spent by a minor league player at major league level.
He has a gun of an arm, so "gun" is the slang word.