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hit and run
1. Baseball. ‘A play wherein a base runner starts with the pitcher's throw as the batter attempts a hit, a sacrifice hit’ (D.A.).
1899Chicago Daily News 2 May 7/1 A rare combination for the hit-and-run game. 1904R. H. Barbour Bk. Sch. & Coll. Sports 188 Team batting. The best known example of this is what is called the sacrifice hit or ‘hit and run’. Ibid. 191 The ‘hit-and-run’ play may also be used when there is a man on third and a run is badly needed. 1909Amer. Mag. May 35/1 Evers and Kling analyzed and discovered every hit and run signal used by the Cincinnati club. 1957Encycl. Brit. III. 164/1 Since the hit-and-run play involves two players, there is usually the exchange of a secret signal between them, or a signal to both of them by the manager or one of the coaches. 1967[see bunt v.2 2].
2. Motoring. The action of the driver of a motor vehicle who fails to stop after an accident for which he is responsible. Freq. attrib. Also hit-run.
1924Sci. Amer. Sept. 181/1 With the bumper in circuit with the ignition, there would be no more ‘hit-and-run’ driving. 1926Amer. Speech I. 460/1 The hit-and-run driver. 1933Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Jan. 9 The power to inflict the death penalty on the hit-run driver who kills. 1944E. S. Gardner Case of Careless Kitten xxiv. 217 Lunk's dead, found at a road intersection a couple of blocks from his house, a hit-and-run car. 1949‘M. Innes’ Journeying Boy ix. 109 If Soapy had been a bit nearer the kerb, I'd have felt like a little hit and run. 1955C. S. Forester Good Shepherd 24 He had been in trouble with the civil authorities for a hit-run automobile offence. 1965‘L. Egan’ Detective's Due (1966) xii. 129 There had been a hit-run yesterday. 1972Times 14 Dec. 4/8 Professor Christiaan Barnard..will suffer no after-effects from injuries sustained when knocked down by a hit-and-run motorist.
3. Used attrib. to denote a raid, raider, etc., using swift action followed by an immediate withdrawal.
1940Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 2 Oct.–26 Nov. 98 Two of the three trams blasted by bombs in a Nazi ‘hit and run’ raid on the morning of 25th October, 1940. 1941Ibid. 14 May–8 July 71 The heavily armed raiding cruiser, or hit-and-run battleship. 1955Times 20 Aug. 5/2 Some of them were indulging in violence and arson, adopting ‘hit and run’ tactics. 1957L. F. R. Williams State of Israel 30 Arab forays, which often took the form of hit-and-run tactics. 1966[see fire-bombing s.v. fire n. B 5]. |