Lead-off definition

(baseball) The first batter in the batting order.

Jones has been the team's lead off hitter for three years.

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(baseball) The first batter of an inning.

The lead off hitter for the sixth inning is Jones.

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(baseball) To be the first batter of an inning.

Jones led off the inning with a home run.

Jones is leading off an inning for the third time in the game.

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Noun

Singular:
lead-off
Plural:
lead offs

Lead-off Sentence Examples

  • They are provided with lids, made either of lead or of wood lined with lead, which have openings to serve for the introduction of the alloy and acid, and a vent tube to lead off the vapours evolved during the operation.

  • Numerous small irrigation channels lead off from them, by means of which a considerable area of waste land has been brought under cultivation.

  • From boulder strewn floor many boulder strewn floor many boulder mazes lead off including a ' z alley ' .

  • Sophie Taeuber's increasingly abstract collages lead off rooms showing Zurich developments.

  • In support of the album and lead off single UR So Gay, Perry toured on the nationwide Warped Tour that summer to support the effort.

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