Little League

English

Etymology

little +‎ league. From being a sports league for children (little ones).

Proper noun

Little League

  1. (US) an organization that sponsors and organizes baseball and softball leagues for children.

Derived terms

Adjective

Little League (not comparable)

  1. (slightly derogatory) Petty, amateur, not worth taking seriously.
    Alternative forms: little league, little-league, Little-League
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      If nothing else, I now have the perfect retort to those little league Stalinists who try to insist that homosexuality is bourgeois decadence that doesn't exist under socialism!
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