Definition of "hit-and-run" []

• Being or involving the driver of a motor vehicle who leaves the scene of an accident, especially one in which a pedestrian or another vehicle has been struck. (adjective)
• Baseball Relating to or being a play in which a base runner starts to run on the pitch and the batter attempts to hit the ball to protect the runner. (adjective)
• Involving or designed for swift specific action or effect: "a day of hit-and-run disturbances by bands of dissident students” ( Alfonso Narvaez). (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "With catcher Wayne Nordhagen up, the White Sox called a hit-and-run."
• "The first subject that La Russa addressed on Tuesday, before he took questions from reporters, was the fact that Albert Pujols is given the responsibility of calling hit-and-run plays when he is hitting."
• "In short, our economy is still on a "Wild West" mode, with a lot of hit-and-run measures that don't seem to work, and milked to the last drop by the two war hogs of Iraq and Afghanistan."