What to do for the home team according to an old baseball song
• To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine. • Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely. • To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth. • The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.