Words that ballplayers use as if everybody uses them, but nope, only ballplayers use them: Redass Horseshit The rest of society has perfectly common and meaningfully descriptive terms to represent these concepts, but for decades ballplayers just hang on to these two. And I think it's probably for the best. You tell a player what he's done is a bullshit move, he's probably furious (he'll get the red ass). You tell him it was a horseshit move, he'll be hurt but hear you out. Similarly, George Brett overhears one ballplayer telling another "That Brett can be a real redass," he thinks, "I guess that's true --- and it works for me but maybe I should look at whether it's helping the team." If he hears the same guy saying "Brett can be a real asshole," it's almost more or less the same thing, but that guy's gonna die.