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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-running.
  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
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hit-and-run1

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900
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Haigh was on a fellowship in Shanghai where she witnessed so many traffic accidents that she began conjuring a story about an American student named Lindsey, struck down by a hit-and-run driver.

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Los Angeles police are looking for the driver of a Lamborghini involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Hancock Park on Monday morning.

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Last week, prosecutors charged Arroyo with 12 criminal counts including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, vandalism and hit-and-run resulting in injury to another person.

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A British man killed in a suspected hit-and-run involving a vehicle in the Kenyan president's motorcade was "incredibly generous" and "always pleasant", a friend has said.

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A British man has been killed in a hit-and-run incident involving a vehicle in the motorcade of Kenyan President William Ruto.

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