pinch hitter

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   (baseball) a substitute for the regular batter

   Broadersubstitutebatter

   baseball · softball

Questions about pinch hitter

What does pinch hitter mean?

pinch hitter means "(baseball) a substitute for the regular batter".

Is pinch hitter a common word?

pinch hitter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.