HITTER


Meaning of HITTER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ hɪtə(r) ]

( hitters)

1.

In sports, you can use hitter to say how good someone is at hitting the ball.

The Georgian, aged 19, is not one of the game’s big hitters.

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2.

If you refer to someone such as a politician or a businessman as a heavy hitter or a big hitter , you mean that they are powerful and influential.

...friendships with heavy hitters like European industrialist Carlo De Benedetti.

N-COUNT : adj N

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