hit and runn.
1. Baseball. ‘A play wherein a base runner starts with the pitcher's throw as the batter attempts a hit, a sacrifice hit’ ( Dict. Amer.).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > batting > types of hit
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pop-up1882
pop fly1884
fungo1887
bunt1889
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drive1896
hit and run1899
pinch hit1905
Texas leaguer1905
squeeze1908
hopper1914
scratch hit1917
squib1929
line-drive1931
nubber1937
lay-in1951
squeeze bunt1952
comebacker1954
moon shot1961
gapper1970
sacrifice fly1970
sacrifice bunt1974
1899 Chicago Daily News 2 May 7/1 A rare combination for the hit-and-run game.
1904 R. H. Barbour Bk. School & College Sports 188 Team batting. The best known example of this is what is called the sacrifice hit or ‘hit and run’.
1904 R. H. Barbour Bk. School & College Sports 191 The ‘hit-and-run’ play may also be used when there is a man on third and a run is badly needed.
1909 Amer. Mag. May 35/1 Evers and Kling analyzed and discovered every hit and run signal used by the Cincinnati club.
1957 Encycl. 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 Boston Sunday Herald 9 Apr. (This Week Mag.) 5/2 Don't wait till after a pitch is thrown to decide whether the batter will bunt or try for the hit-and-run.
2. Motoring. The action of the driver of a motor vehicle who fails to stop after an accident for which he is responsible. Frequently attributive. Also hit-run n.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > offence by driver of motor vehicle > specific
hit and run1924
hit-run1924
parking offence1937
1924 Sci. Amer. Sept. 181/1 With the bumper in circuit with the ignition, there would be no more ‘hit-and-run’ driving.
1926 Amer. Speech 1 460/1 The hit-and-run driver.
1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Jan. 9 The power to inflict the death penalty on the hit-run driver who kills.
1944 E. 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.
1955 ‘C. 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.
1972 Times 14 Dec. 4/8 Professor Christiaan Barnard..will suffer no after-effects from injuries sustained when knocked down by a hit-and-run motorist.
Compounds
attributive, denoting a raid, raider, etc., using swift action followed by an immediate withdrawal.
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society > armed hostility > attack > [adjective] > other types of attack
feigned1598
overvaulting1879
frontal1884
tip-and-run1891
hit and run1940
pre-emptive1941
banzai1945
surgical1965
kamikaze1966
1940 Hutchinson'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.
1941 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 14 May 71 The heavily armed raiding cruiser, or hit-and-run battleship.
1955 Times 20 Aug. 5/2 Some of them were indulging in violence and arson, adopting ‘hit and run’ tactics.
1957 L. F. R. Williams State of Israel 30 Arab forays, which often took the form of hit-and-run tactics.
1966 Economist 30 July 442/3 The disorders were mostly confined to the hit-and-run fire-bombing..and to isolated shooting incidents.
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