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tip and run
noun
- a form of cricket in which the batsman must run if his bat touches the ball
adjective
- prenominal characterized by a rapid departure immediately after striking
a tip-and-run raid
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Therein lay the reason for the tip-and-run nature of the raids, which lasted for a few minutes only.
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We must needs live a tip-and-run life,—do our work, and return to safety behind submarine defences.
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And I'm awfully sorry it had to be tip-and-run, but there wasn't anything else for it at the time.
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Fifteen miles to the south our Nieuports would be waiting for the next tip-and-run call to flight.
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"Tip-and-run tactics" had no supporters in the British Air Service.
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