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单词 pinch-hit
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pinch-hitv.

Brit. /ˌpɪn(t)ʃˈhɪt/, U.S. /ˌpɪn(t)ʃˈhɪt/
Inflections: Past tense and past participle pinch-hit, (irregular) pinched hit;
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pinch- comb. form, hit v.
Etymology: < pinch- comb. form + hit v. Compare earlier pinch hit n., pinch-hitter n., pinch-hitting n.
Chiefly U.S. (originally Baseball).
1. intransitive. To act as a substitute for another batter, esp. at a crucial point in a game. Also more generally: to take the place of another person or thing, esp. in an emergency.
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the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > be a substitute [verb (intransitive)]
to stand for ——OE
to stand in a person's stead?a1515
to be in any one's coat1530
walk1558
to serve the turn of1565
succenturiate1647
commute1653
to hand the saw1654
substitute1675
surrogate1681
to be in (another person's) shoes1767
substitute1888
pinch-hit1911
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (intransitive)] > types of hit
bunt1889
fungo1889
fly1893
sacrifice1905
triple1908
pinch-hit1911
homer1912
single1916
squeeze bunt1952
1911 Washington Post 6 May 9/4 Neither made the percentage of gain that was Schaeffer's yesterday, when he pinched hit at a 1,000 clip.
1914 Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer 12 July ii. 1/2 Duffy Lewis, after pinch hitting for Ruth in the seventh, played out the rest of the game in left field.
1918 R. W. Lardner My Four Weeks in France viii. 179 He had the thing running, with a piece of common binding twine pinch-hitting for the cord.
1931 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 17 Dec. 24 John Neilson gave the talk,..but I thought they were just using him to pinch-hit for Bo McMillin.
1957 R. Longrigg Switchboard iv. 59 ‘I wonder if you can help me out of a jam?.. I'm supposed to be lunching with a man called Robinson... I now find I can't do it. I've made some kind of nonsense with the dates—’ ‘Shall I pinch-hit?’
1973 E. Taylor Serpent under It (1974) x. 156 ‘With no secretary, how do we find out where they are?’ ‘They've got some old girl from the History Department pinch-hitting.’
1999 Sun (Baltimore) 7 Apr. d1/6 Willis Otanez pinched hit for Ripken and remained in the game until Jeff Reboulet replaced him for defensive purposes in the eighth inning.
2. transitive. To hit (the ball) while playing as a substitute; to substitute (a person), esp. at a crucial point in a game.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (transitive)] > actions of batter
pop1867
foul1870
poke1880
pole1882
bunch1883
line1887
to foul off1888
rip1896
sacrifice1905
pickle1906
to wait out1909
pull1912
single1916
pinch-hit1929
nub1948
tag1961
tomahawk1978
1929 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 27 May 11/2 Old Cy Williams pinch hit a homer with two on in the ninth.
1985 RedsVue (Cincinnati) 6 Oct. 8/1 Browning gave up six runs in six innings and was losing 6–1 when he was pinch-hit.
1991 Sports Illustr. 15 Apr. 133/1 You'll want to factor that into your decision whether to pinch-hit either a righthanded pull hitter or..a lefthanded hitter who can go to the opposite field.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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