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hit-and-run en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of, pertaining to, or being a hit and run.
    • During the Reaper attack on Thessia, the asari armada used Janiri as a staging base for their hit-and-run attacks on the invading Reapers, striking, jumping to FTL to lose pursuers, and discharging the static into Janiri's magnetic field as they prepared for another attack. 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Janiri:
    • If observed, approach with extreme caution and inform nearest control of contact. Both subjects now under multiple federal warrants charging bank robbery, murder, and hit-and-run murder. 1963 February, Rick Raphael, “Code Three”, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact:

hit-and-run en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of hit and run.

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