Word.ws English Dictionary

leadoff hitter

leadoff hitter noun: the first hitter in the batting order, who faces the first pitch of the game.

Noun

leadoff hitter (plural leadoff hitters)

  1. The first hitter in the batting order, who faces the first pitch of the game.
  2. The first hitter of any given inning.

Forms of leadoff hitter

pluralleadoff hitters

Questions about leadoff hitter

What does leadoff hitter mean?
Leadoff hitter means the first hitter in the batting order, who faces the first pitch of the game.
What part of speech is leadoff hitter?
Leadoff hitter is a noun.
What is the plural of leadoff hitter?
The plural of leadoff hitter is leadoff hitters.

Words near leadoff hitter in the dictionary

  1. leadline
  2. leadlines
  3. leadman
  4. leadmen
  5. leadoff
  6. leadoff hitter
  7. leadoff hitters
  8. leadoffs
  9. Leadon
  10. Leadons
  11. leadout

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: leadoff hitter (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “leadoff hitter.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/leadoff_hitter. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.