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After 3,000 Hits, Even Dirt Will Sell

By RICHARD SANDOMIR

Derek Jeter’s 3,000th career hit will be a cause for celebration and merchandising, starting with collection buckets of the ballpark dirt.

When the measuring cap that comes with the medicine bottle gets gooey and gummed up, the temptation is to grab a kitchen spoon to guesstimate a teaspoon’s worth of liquid medicine.


These aren’t ballpark guesstimates. Mr. Collins, who is 51, keeps a stopwatch with three separate timers in his pocket at all times, stopping and starting them as he switches activities. Then he regularly logs the times into a spreadsheet.

ballpark
n.

1. A park or stadium in which ball games are played.
2. Slang. The approximately proper range, as of possibilities or alternatives: Your estimate is high, but still in the ballpark.

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or used in a park or stadium: ballpark lights; ballpark seating.
2. Slang. Being approximately proper in range: gave a ballpark estimate of future unit sales.

guesstimate
n. Informal.
An estimate based on conjecture.

[Blend of GUESS and ESTIMATE.]

guesstimate guess'ti·mate' (-māt') v.
gooey
adj., -i·er, -i·est.
Sticky and viscous: gooey caramel.


gum
n.

1. 1. Any of various viscous substances that are exuded by certain plants and trees and dry into water-soluble, noncrystalline, brittle solids.
   2. A similar plant exudate, such as a resin.
   3. Any of various adhesives made from such exudates or other sticky substance.
2. A substance resembling the viscous substance exuded by certain plants, as in stickiness.
3. 1. Any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus, Liquidambar, or Nyssa that are sources of gum. Also called gum tree.
   2. The wood of such a tree; gumwood.
4. Chewing gum.

v., gummed, gum·ming, gums. v.tr.
To cover, smear, seal, fill, or fix in place with or as if with gum.

v.intr.

1. To exude or form gum.
2. To become sticky or clogged.

phrasal verb:
gum up

1. To ruin or bungle: gum up the works.

[Middle English gomme, from Old French, from Late Latin gumma, variant of Latin gummi, cummi, from Greek kommi, perhaps from Egyptian ḳmj-t.]

口香糖(台灣)，或稱香口膠/珠 (香港)，是一種僅用於咀嚼而不是吞食的糖果。傳統上，是由糖膠樹膠（Chicle，一種天然樹膠）來製造。現在則因經濟和品質而使用石油生產的聚合物來取代糖膠樹膠。但糖膠樹膠仍然是某些地區的口香糖原料。

チューインガム（英: Chewing gum）は、かむ (chew) ゴム (gum) の意味で、ガムベースに味や香りをつけ、かむことで風味や口あたりを楽しむ菓子の総称である^[1]。ガム (gum) と略されることが多い。