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hit-by-pitches

hit-by-pitches is the plural of hit-by-pitch.

Meaning of hit-by-pitch

Noun

hit-by-pitch (plural hit-by-pitches)

  1. An official scoring play in which a batter is hit by a pitched ball, and is awarded first base as a result, and where the batter is referred to as a hit batsman.

Questions about hit-by-pitches

What is hit-by-pitches the plural of?
Hit-by-pitches is the plural of hit-by-pitch.

Words near hit-by-pitches in the dictionary

  1. hit-and-runners
  2. hit-and-runs
  3. hit-box
  4. hit-boxes
  5. hit-by-pitch
  6. hit-by-pitches
  7. hit-job
  8. hit-jobs
  9. hit-or-miss
  10. hit-or-miss transform
  11. hit-or-miss transforms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hit-by-pitches (page history and authors); hit-by-pitch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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