no-hitter

noun

no-hit·​ter ˌnō-ˈhi-tər How to pronounce no-hitter (audio)
: a no-hit game in baseball

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And Angels pitchers threw a combined no-hitter against the Seattle Mariners in a 13-0 win. Sean Emery, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025 Maldonado caught three no-hitters in his career, and was on the receiving end of two different immaculate innings — in the same game on June 15, 2022, when pitchers Luis Garcia and Phil Maton did so against the Texas Rangers. Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025 Scherzer threw two no-hitters in 2015. Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025 Halladay pitched himself into baseball history later that October with a playoff no-hitter, the second ever in baseball and a moment that forever stamped an already great pitcher as a bona fide Hall of Famer. Dan Gelston, Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2025 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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