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noun

Hitter n.

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

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

heavy hitter

A baseball player who gets many extra-base hits.

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

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Etymology of 'Hitter'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hitter" Quotes from Famous Books

... Sidney Watson, who had made a reputation as a left-fielder, and a hard hitter on the Brooklyn team, had lately been offered the position as manager of the Cardinals, and had taken it. This would be his first season, and, recognizing the faults of the team, he had set about correcting them in an endeavor to get it out of the "cellar" class. Quarrels, bickerings ...

— Baseball Joe in the Big League - or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles • Lester Chadwick

... Carolina. It happened frequently that officers and attendants of the rival law courts met, as they pursued, their duties, and whenever they met they fought. The post of sheriff—or sheriffs, for of course there were two—was filled by the biggest and heaviest man and the hardest hitter in the ranks of the warring factions. A favorite game was raiding each other's courts and carrying off the records. Frankland sent William Cocke, later the first senator from Tennessee, to Congress with a memorial, asking Congress to accept ...

— Pioneers of the Old Southwest - A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground • Constance Lindsay Skinner

... curses a slipshod woman who kept pace with him on the pavement and answered him with nerveless jeers. Just beyond a man overtook them, walking swiftly, his tread echoing as he went; he turned and looked at her as he passed; he had a short board and wore a "hard hitter." Then there was a girl plying her sorry trade, talking in the shadow with a young man, spruce and white-shirted. They had to wait at one street for a tram to rush past screeching and rattling. At one crossing Ned had seized her arm because a cab was coming carelessly. One ...

— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller

... took place between him and Leonard, in which the hitter strove to break away; but the earl, drawing his sword, held it to ...

— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth

... a man who can sharpen and set, And he is the only thing masculine yet According to sawyer and splitter— Or rather according to Wollombi Jim; And nothing will tempt me to differ from him, For Jim is a bit of a hitter. ...

— The Poems of Henry Kendall • Henry Kendall

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