Definitions for hit-and-run

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Spelling: [hit-n-ruhn]

IPA: /ˈhɪt nˈrʌn/

Hit-And-Run is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 302 anagrams from letters in hit-and-run (--adhinnrtu).

Definitions for hit-and-run

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:
2. involving or resulting from such action or conduct:
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:

verb (used without object)

1. Baseball. to attempt or execute a hit-and-run play.

Origin of hit-and-run

An Americanism dating back to 1895-1900

Examples for hit-and-run

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

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

But, Lucas, this Tanith adventure; we're not making any hit-and-run raid.

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

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

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

The riots may have turned deadly too, as three men were killed in Birmingham in a hit-and-run.

And the Kerothi Fleet was being decimated by the hit-and-run tactics of the Earth's ghost ships.

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

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