multihit

adjective

mul·​ti·​hit ˌməl-tē-ˈhit How to pronounce multihit (audio)
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: having or involving multiple hits
especially, baseball : characterized by more than one hit by a single batter
Oscar Gonzalez … had his 11-game hitting streak come to an end, but over his last 10 games he's hitting .304 with five multihit games … The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer

Word History

First Known Use

1935, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of multihit was in 1935

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“Multihit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multihit. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.

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