tip and run

noun

1. a form of cricket in which the batsman must run if his bat touches the ball

adjective

1. prenominal characterized by a rapid departure immediately after striking

   a tip-and-run raid

Example Sentences

Any kid knows that if you grab a lizard by its tail, it can snap off the tip and run away.

From Science Magazine

You take my tip and run down, Gaunt.

From Project Gutenberg

In the western orchards was the large French cemetery, and hard by that of our own division, adjoining a cricket pitch, where we had many spirited games of tip and run.

From Project Gutenberg

The foam spume from the breakers was drifting across the dunes, and the little tip-up snipe ran along the beach and teetered and whistled and spread their white-barred wings for a low, straight flight across the shingle, only to tip and run and sail on again.

From Project Gutenberg

It was here that they two, with George always as a welcome third, used to play "tip and run" and "hide and seek" with the then little children.

From Project Gutenberg