pinch-hitting

Variant of pinch-hit

pinch-hit definition

☆ pinch·-hit (pinc̸h′hit′)

intransitive verb pinch-hit -·hit′, pinch-hitting -·hit′·ting

  1. Baseball to bat in place of the batter whose turn it is, esp. when a hit is particularly needed
  2. to act as a substitute in an emergency (for)

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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