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Hitter

Hitter \Hit"ter\, n.

  1. One who hits or strikes; as, a hard hitter.

  2. (Baseball) The batter; as, there are two strikes on the hitter. heavy hitter

    1. A baseball player who gets many extra-base hits.

    2. A person who is very important or is very effective at his profession.

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hitter

n. 1 agent noun of hit; one who hits. 2 (context baseball English) One who comes up to bat.

WordNet
hitter
  1. n. (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting [syn: batter, slugger, batsman]

  2. someone who hits; "a hard hitter"; "a fine striker of the ball"; "blacksmiths are good hitters" [syn: striker]

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Usage examples of "hitter".

I was so grateful that I asked her to marry me, though I found her dull company, ambitionless, too much of a shouter, a hitter.

He could disguise a change of pace in such a manner as to deceive the most expert batsman, while as a scientific hitter himself he had few superiors.

Baseball caps hung on the walls, along with paintings of pitchers and hitters, expressionistic swirls of colour.

We found a rolling tray and a power hitter in the kitchen and a bottle of mannitol in the medicine cabinet.

Lo Manto peered over at him, watching him stride close enough to Rummy to take the hitter, his instincts dictating which way he turned, his movements slow and in control, like a gray cat walking after midnight.

The following fly goes wrong: the hitter is out of position, the ball leaves the field and comes down with a whish and a tearing of foliage into the woods bordering the playground.

When fans watched Damon, they saw the sort of thrilling leadoff hitter that a team simply had to have if it wanted to be competitive.

Johnny Damon, on offense, was an extraordinarily valuable leadoff hitter with a gift for stealing bases.

The one talent every fan and manager in the game associated with a leadoff hitter was the talent Jeremy Giambi most obviously lacked.

The White Sox declined, but that conversation led to another, in which Billy discovered that the White Sox were willing to part with their All-Star second baseman and leadoff hitter, Ray Durham.

The leadoff hitter for the Phillies was Hutch, who thought she looked pretty good in the uniform.

Kevin Millwood was on the mound for the Braves, peering in to the catcher for the sign, looking to jam up the Mets leadoff hitter, Jose Reyes.

In the top of the second, Eric Hiljus continues to indulge Yankee hitters with fastballs down the middle of the plate and they strike for four more runs, three on a home run by Derek Jeter.

All he knew was that when he threw it from lower down, his ball had a new movement to it that flummoxed hitters during minor league spring training, and continued to flummox them in Double-A ball.

To determine the best dead hitters, you needed to build tools to evaluate them, and those tools worked just as well on the living.