What is "safe hit"

Safe \Safe\, a. [Compar. Safer; superl. Safest.] [OE. sauf, F. sauf, fr. L. salvus, akin to salus health, welfare, safety. Cf. Salute, Salvation, Sage a plant, Save, Salvo an exception.]

1. Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes. ``And ye dwelled safe.''
   --1 Sam. xii. 11.

   They escaped all safe to land.
   --Acts xxvii. 44.

   Established in a safe, unenvied throne.
   --Milton.

2. Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc. ``The man of safe discretion.''
   --Shak.

   The King of heaven hath doomed This place our dungeon, not our safe retreat.
   --Milton.

3. Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe.

   But Banquo's safe? Ay, my good lord, safe in a ditch he bides.
   --Shak.

   Safe hit (Baseball), a hit which enables the batter to get to first base even if no error is made by the other side.

   safe house, a residence where a person in hiding from the authorities or other persons may stay without being discovered.

   Syn: Secure; unendangered; sure.

Hit \Hit\, n.

1. A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

   So he the famed Cilician fencer praised, And, at each hit, with wonder seems amazed.
   --Dryden.

2. A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit; esp. A performance, as a musical recording, movie, or play, which achieved great popularity or acclaim; also used of books or objects of commerce which become big sellers; as, the new notebook computer was a big hit with business travellers.

   What late he called a blessing, now was wit, And God's good providence, a lucky hit.
   --Pope.

3. A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.

4. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.

5. (Baseball) A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit.

6. An act of murder performed for hire, esp. by a professional assassin.

   Base hit, Safe hit, Sacrifice hit. (Baseball) See under Base, Safe, etc.

n. (context baseball English) base hit