pinch-hit (English, verb)
expansion: pinch-hit (third-person singular simple present pinch-hits, present participle pinch-hitting, simple past and past participle pinch-hit)
Senses:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To bat in place of another player
tags: intransitive
glosses: To do something in the place of another person who is not able to perform or is less skilled; to substitute or stand in for somebody.
tags: idiomatic
intransitive
Forms:
form: pinch-hits
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pinch-hitting
tags: participle
present
form: pinch-hit
tags: participle
past
form: pinch-hit
tags: past