What is "hit-and-run"

Usage examples of "hit-and-run".

We were used to being rocketed and mortared, but normally they were hit-and-run, maybe five or twenty rockets.

The rapes and the narcotics angle were solved, three teenage kids were being held for the hit-and-run and the parking lot murder was still up in the air.

But given the long cat-and-mouse history of American submarine espionage in the Barents Sea, senior Russian officials pointed the finger at an undersea hit-and-run collision with a U.

Those who had set and activated the ambuscade were not soldiers but hit-and-run banditti, so they could not have been faulted for breaking and running immediately they saw their leaders hacked by sabers and broadswords, lifted writhing from their saddles on dripping lance-points or hurled to death amid the stamping hooves by blow of ax or mace.

Meanwhile, the Defiant contin-ues hit-and-running the individual dishes, distract-ing any ships left defending them and hopefullykeeping them from knowing that there's a maninfiltrating the source.

His hit-and-run missions against New Republic sites were increasing in bold effectiveness and destructiveness, and the danger that he might assume Ysanne Isard's role as the center of an Imperial resurgence was not an empty one.

As a combined operation the parent Commando organization had planned a hit-and-run assault on die Pas de Calais area—.

My first assignment was to a purely defensive post at the Depoe Shipyards, far from the lines of the Deng conflict, and while Tilla M has seen intermittent raids by well-armed pirates, any conflict would doubtless consisted of brief defense against space-based hit-and-run attacks.

It was three hours over the mountain to Farmington, but the hit-and-run was his baby.

I am investigating the murder of a German businessman, Rodney Kurtz, and the subsequent hit-and-run death of his wife, Giai, a Vietnamese national.

Uncaring, they crisscrossed over the spot where Giai Kurtz had been killed by the murderous hit-and-run.

Whatever else was true about the tales of the rogue ship Raphael, it was uncontestable that His Holiness's Crusade against the Ousters had been set back years by the hit-and-run attacks.

We had a hit-and-run and when we found the vehicle and checked it against the list of cars involved in other accidents and crimes, lo and behold, the computer announced that the Vehicle Identification Number matched the one on the car you found in the Barber woman's garage.

The Bureau is handling the hit-and-run on Pico and Figueroa on 11/10, and we located the vehicle, a '39 La Salle sedan, abandoned.

She fought a hit-and-run campaign against the Peeps merchant marine for over a T-year before they finally cornered her and pounded Dague to scrap.