: a no-hit game in baseball

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Brady House’s two-out single in the seventh ended what would have been the franchise’s first no-hitter since 1994. Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 2 Aug. 2026 Lambert retired the first 12 Rangers in order before his no-hitter bid was broken up with a single in the fifth. ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026 Jeffers hit a clean single to right-center field to start the seventh and end the bid for Kansas City's first no-hitter since Bret Saberhagen in 1991. CBS News, 31 July 2026 Stieb still sits alone in Jays franchise history as the only starter to deliver a no-hitter, but on Saturday, Cease became the first Jay since Shaun Marcum in 2010 to throw a one-hitter. Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 26 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for no-hitter

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First Known Use

1911, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of no-hitter was in 1911

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no-hitter

noun
no-hit·​ter
(ˈ)nō-ˈhit-ər
: a baseball game in which a pitcher allows the opposition no base hits
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