hittable

English

Etymology

From hit +‎ -able.

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Adjective

hittable (comparative more hittable, superlative most hittable)

  1. Able to be hit; fit to be hit
    • 1998 January 22, Chris <cddu...@ouray.cudenver.edu>, “3rd try - Gene Answers Lavonne re Criminalizing Home Spanking”, in alt.parenting.spanking‎[1] (Usenet):
      Actually, we are both forgetting the most important step in why children are legally hittable and by whom.
    • 2004 October 1, “Dunn and Morgan”, in alt.sports.baseball.cinci-reds‎[2] (Usenet):
      he almost stops being a threat altogether because the pitcher knows there's nearly a 2-in-3 chance that Dunn won't even make contact. There's no incentive to throw him an even remotely hittable pitch.
    • 2004 October 9, “The Red Sox just swept...”, in alt.sports.baseball.bos-redsox‎[3] (Usenet):
      Just because the Sox were able to hit the Angels pen doesn't make all pitchers hittable. Overconfidence is a bad thing right now. The Sox do have the best offense out there. BUt that doesn't make the good pitching hittable automatically.

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