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pinch-hitting
Variant of pinch-hit
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intransitive verb pinch-hit, pinch-hitting
- Baseball to bat in place of the batter whose turn it is, esp. when a hit is particularly needed
- to act as a substitute in an emergency (for)
Related Forms:
- pinch hitter noun
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