switch-hitter

[swich-hit]

switch-hit

[swich-hit]
verb (used without object), switch-hit, switch-hit·ting. Baseball.
to be able to bat from either side of the plate, or both as a left-handed and as a right-handed batter.

Origin:
1950–55

switch hitter, noun
switch-hit·ter, noun
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Switch-hitter is always a great word to know.
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the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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switch-hitter
 
n
1.  baseball a batsman who can hit either right- or left-handed
2.  slang a bisexual person

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switch-hitter definition


  1. n.
    a ballplayer who bats either right-handed or left-handed. (Baseball.) : I'm not a switch-hitter. In fact, I can hardly hit the ball at all.
  2. n.
    a bisexual person. (From sense 1.) : Bart finally decided he was a switch-hitter and asked Brad for a date since Mary was busy.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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