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hit-and-run
[ hit-n-ruhn ]
adjective
- 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.
- involving or resulting from such action or conduct:
hit-and-run fatalities.
- 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.
- marked by taking flight immediately after a quick, concentrated attack:
a hit-and-run raid.
verb (used without object)
- Baseball. to attempt or execute a hit-and-run play.
hit-and-run
adjective
- involved in or denoting a motor-vehicle accident in which the driver leaves the scene without stopping to give assistance, inform the police, etc
- ( as noun )
a hit-and-run
- (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
- baseball denoting a play in which a base runner begins to run as the pitcher throws the ball to the batter
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of hit-and-run1
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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