Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To hit (a tennis or cricket ball, for example) incorrectly or badly.
Wiktionary
- n. sports An incorrect or bad hit.
- v. transitive To incorrectly or badly hit.
Examples
“The fifth-set end-game started with Djokovic serving at 3-4 and stringing together an uncharacteristically bad game, getting broken at love on two mishit forehands, a framer of Federer's that set up a winner and a double fault on a second serve that missed the line by about a foot.”
The Huffington Post: Novak Djokovic Eliminates Roger Federer In U.S. Open Semifinals
“If we mishit a baseball into foul territory, we get a new pitch.”
“If we mishit a golf ball, we must work ourselves out of trouble.”
“Garrett Atkins had a pretty good pitch to swing at (with runners at first and third in the first) — a high changeup — but he mishit the ball.”
Brilliant postseason debut for Phillies' Lee in 5-1 win vs. Rox
“He chests the ball down and then scuffs a hilariously mishit shot, which would have rolled miles wide, only for Ba to anticipate its trajectory and tap past Begovic from close range.”
The Guardian: Stoke City v Newcastle United - as it happened | Jacob Steinberg
“More surprising was Anderson's inability to get his hands to a mishit pull, which might have provided Stuart Broad with his first Test wicket in the Antipodes when Haddin was on 113.”
The Guardian: The Ashes 2010: Mike Hussey and Brad Haddin make England suffer
“The window pane shattered by a mishit baseball, a lamp knocked over by a careless child, or a plate dropped in the kitchen are already broken.”
“In fact, often a mishit header or chest back to the keeper from a defender can lead to a goal.”
“' We feel good about his leg, he just mishit the ball.”
“He said he thought the course this year was playing with a little more strategic variation than in the past, and that the rough had been cut back from some of the greens, letting mishit approach shots roll farther away -- a slight swing, at least, back to tradition.”
The Wall Street Journal: The 'Second Cut' at the Masters Still Draws Controversy, 10 Years On
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