Definitions
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- noun Someone who is
hit , as opposed to doing the hitting.
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Examples
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In baseball hetero sexual terms, the hittee is the young lady that when you see her you say "I'd hit that."
The accuser in the Duke rape case is publishing a memoir. Ann Althouse 2008
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All of those things that encompasses a good leader, that's what he was doing, and when guys are hitting him he's taking it upon himself to not be the hittee but the hitter and going after them.
Is 'old Ovi' back? 2011
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Warning: this bat decreases the time the hittee has to react.
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Hitting is usually an indication that the hitter is trying to be mean to the hittee.
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Hockey players know that if everyone wears low-protection gear e.g. no helmets or shoulder pads the hitting will be cleaner because the hitter is almost as likely to be hurt as the hittee.
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So there is the editor—I hope a dying breed of editor—who can get between the hitter and the hittee in a book that is trying to reach home.
TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg 1995
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So there is the editor—I hope a dying breed of editor—who can get between the hitter and the hittee in a book that is trying to reach home.
TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg 1995
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BTW, wasn't Baylor less of a hitter than he was a hittee?
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Burke says this change would avoid the "billiard-ball" force hits that exist now where all of the force is transferred directly from the "hitter" to the "hittee."
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If a player gets caught in the trolly tracks while looking the wrong way this rule would force the hitter to put his shoulder into the body of the hittee.
CTV News RSS Feed 2009
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