rally cap

plural rally caps · alternative rally-cap

1. USball gamesA baseball cap worn inside-out and backwards, or in another unconventional manner, by players or fans, as a talisman in order to will a team into a come-from-behind rally late in the game.

   "It's a rally cap! It's a rally cap!” shouted her father teasingly, rubbing her head with every base runner.

   2005, Allen St. John, chapter 9, in Clapton's Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument, page 89

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   His cap was turned backwards in the manner of a catcher or a rally-cap, though he had no intention of catching and there certainly wasn't a rally going on.

   2001, Melissa M. Dudek, Wildfire Summer: A Season With the Wyoming Wildfire, page 56

   […]Brian always wore a Detroit Tigers baseball cap. He would turn his cap into a "rally cap" when anyone needed a bit of a rally in their lives.

   2007, April 16th: Virginia Tech Remembers, page 207