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pinch hitter

pinch hitter noun: a substitute batter; one who pinch-hits.

Noun

pinch hitter (plural pinch hitters)

  1. A substitute batter; one who pinch-hits.
    • This year the Tigers are using pinch hitters 72 percent more often than the league average. They entered Thursday leading the league with 59 pinch-hit plate appearances. Tigers pinch hitters were batting .231, above the league average for pinch hitters of .217.2023 May 26, Cody Stavenhagen, “A.J. Hinch is managing with confidence as the Tigers hang tight in the AL Central”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025
  2. An aggressive batsman brought on to score runs quickly, even at the risk of losing his wicket.
  3. (colloquial) A person who substitutes for another to perform one or more tasks.
    • I’ll be sending a pinch hitter to do the presentation because I have the flu.

pinch hitter meaning in Bengali

pinch hitter in Bengali

একজন বিকল্প ব্যাটার

Forms of pinch hitter

pluralpinch hitters

Origin of pinch hitter

From pinch hit + -er.

Questions about pinch hitter

What does pinch hitter mean?
Pinch hitter means a substitute batter; one who pinch-hits.
What is pinch hitter in Bengali?
Pinch hitter in Bengali is একজন বিকল্প ব্যাটার. See Pinch hitter meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is pinch hitter?
Pinch hitter is a noun.
What is the plural of pinch hitter?
The plural of pinch hitter is pinch hitters.

Words near pinch hitter in the dictionary

  1. pinch force
  2. pinch forces
  3. pinch grafting
  4. pinch hit
  5. pinch hits
  6. pinch hitter
  7. pinch hitters
  8. pinch mode
  9. pinch modes
  10. pinch of salt
  11. pinch of the game

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pinch hitter (page history and authors); pinch hitter (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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