no-hit·ter

[noh-hit-er]
noun Baseball.
a no-hit game.
Compare perfect game.


Origin:
1935–40

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no-hitter
baseball term for game in which one side fails to make a hit, first attested 1948.
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A nohitter is a game in which one of the teams prevented the other from getting a hit.
Pitched three nohitters, including the only opening day nohitter.
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