paceman
noun
paceman is a noun meaning “A fast bowler; one who specialises in bowling fast” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-C-E-M-A-N, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of paceman is pacemen.
What does paceman mean?
noun
- 1
AustraliaIndiaA fast bowler; one who specialises in bowling fast.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce paceman?
- Australia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-paceman.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of paceman
- pacemen plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paceman?
Paceman appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does paceman come from?
From pace + man.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).