banjo hitter

noun

Definition of banjo hitter

baseball

: a batter who lacks power : a weak hitter

The public address system announces each batter with thundering resonance, whether it be Babe Ruth or a banjo hitter just called up from Vancouver.
—Martin F. Nolan, Boston Globe, 12 Aug. 1998

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banjo-hitting

adjective

- … I was a scrawny, banjo-hitting second-baseman.
- —King Kaufman, Salon.com, 7 Jan. 2009

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Origin and Etymology of banjo hitter

banjo hit “a weakly hit ball” (from a fanciful comparison of the pinging sound made by a weak hit to the sound of a banjo) +²-er

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