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View synonyms for hit-and-run

hit-and-run

[ hit-n-ruhn ]

adjective

  1. guilty of fleeing the scene of an accident or injury one has caused, especially a vehicular accident, thereby attempting to evade being identified and held responsible:

    a hit-and-run driver.

  2. involving or resulting from such action or conduct:

    hit-and-run fatalities.

  3. Baseball. pertaining to or noting a play in which, to get a head start, a base runner begins to run to the next base as the pitcher delivers the ball to the batter, who must try to hit it in order to protect the runner.
  4. marked by taking flight immediately after a quick, concentrated attack:

    a hit-and-run raid.



verb (used without object)

, hit-and-ran, hit-and-run·ning.
  1. Baseball. to attempt or execute a hit-and-run play.

hit-and-run

adjective

    1. involved in or denoting a motor-vehicle accident in which the driver leaves the scene without stopping to give assistance, inform the police, etc
    2. ( as noun )

      a hit-and-run

  1. (of an attack, raid, etc) relying on surprise allied to a rapid departure from the scene of operations for the desired effect

    hit-and-run tactics

  2. baseball denoting a play in which a base runner begins to run as the pitcher throws the ball to the batter
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hit-and-run1

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

The speakers included a man who had been struck by a hit-and-run driver who had then been chased down by Chubby.

Her mother has mental-health problems, and physical-health problems, which deteriorated after a hit-and-run accident.

Thomas Daniels was convicted of DUI and arrested a year later on hit-and-run charges.

In August 2007 she was charged with a misdemeanor hit-and-run and driving without a license after crashing into a parked car.

Another case, this one a hit-and-run charge, was dismissed in 2008.

A detective brings you a minute sample of paint taken from the clothing of a hit-and-run victim.

A detective brings you a minute 43 sample of paint taken from the clothing of a hit-and-run victim.

He wanted to know what fouls were, and how to steal bases, and he was nonplussed by such terms as “hit-and-run.”

He was struck by a hit-and-run car as he walked from his office to the railroad station.

Pete got the signal for a hit-and-run play and swung at the third ball.

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