Usually means: Substitute batter hitting for another.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word pinch-hit:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinch-hit: Merriam-Webster
  2. pinch-hit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pinch-hit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pinch-hit, pinch-hit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pinch-hit: Wordnik
  6. pinch-hit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pinch-hit: Wiktionary
  8. pinch-hit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pinch-hit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pinch-hit: Dictionary.com
  11. pinch-hit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Pinch-hit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. pinch-hit: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pinch-hit: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pinch-hit: Idioms

(Note: See pinch-hits as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive, baseball) To bat in place of another player
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To do something in the place of another person who is not able to perform or is less skilled; to substitute or stand in for somebody.

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