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hit-and-run

 
Dictionary: hit-and-run
(hĭt'n-rŭn')
adj.
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Involving or designed for swift specific action or effect: "a day of hit-and-run disturbances by bands of dissident students" (Alfonso Narvaez).

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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: designed for or consisting of a brief attack followed by a quick escape
  Synonym: tip-and-run

Meaning #2: involving a driver of a motor vehicle who leaves the scene of an accident


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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - flugt-, lyn-, hit-and-run

Nederlands (Dutch)
snel en verrassend (aanval etc.), betreffende geval van aanrijden en wegvluchten

Français (French)
adj. - éclair (attaque, raid), coupable de délit de fuite (lors d'un accident), qui attaque et prend la fuite (un gang), en délit de fuite (un chauffeur)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - unfallflüchtig, Blitz-

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - εγκαταλείπει το θύμα του αβοήθητο
n. - εγκατάλειψη θύματος

Italiano (Italian)
causato da un pirata della strada

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - culpado de deixar a cena do acidente
n. - acidente (m) onde o culpado foge

Русский (Russian)
водитель, который удирает, сбив пешехода

Español (Spanish)
adj. - que causa un accidente y se da a la fuga, béisbol

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - smitning- (trafik)
n. - smitning, smitare

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
打了就跑的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 打了就跑的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 뺑소니 차의, (야구) 치고 달리는, 사고를 치고 도망가는

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - ひき逃げの, 電撃的な, ヒットエンドランの

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) عن سائق سيارة يفر بسيارته بعد حادثه يصطدم فيها شخصا دون أن يتوقف ليساعده (الاسم) السائق الذي يفر بسيارته بعد حادثه ألخ‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮פגע וברח‬


 
 

 

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