Usually means: Batter substitutes for the pitcher.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word designated hitter:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. designated hitter: Merriam-Webster
  2. designated hitter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. designated hitter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. designated hitter: Vocabulary.com
  5. designated-hitter: Wordnik
  6. designated hitter: Wiktionary
  7. designated hitter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. designated hitter: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. designated hitter: Dictionary.com
  10. Designated Hitter, Designated hitter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. designated hitter: Rhymezone
  12. designated hitter: FreeDictionary.org
  13. designated hitter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. designated hitter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. designated hitter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. designated hitter: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Designated hitter: Sports Definitions

(Note: See designated_hitters as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (designated hitter)

noun:  (baseball) A batter who is permitted to substitute for a pitcher in the batting rotation for the duration of a baseball game.
noun:  (colloquial) A person who is asked to substitute for another in handling a portion of a task for which the other is less capable.

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