switch-hitter

1. 1.

   a baseball player who can bat either right or left handed

   Broaderbatter
2. 2.

   slang term for a bisexual person

   Broaderbisexual

Questions about switch-hitter

What does switch-hitter mean?

switch-hitter means "a baseball player who can bat either right or left handed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in switch-hitter?

switch-hitter has 3 syllables: switch--hit-ter. The stress falls on "switch-".

Is switch-hitter a common word?

switch-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.