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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A batted ball that is not squarely struck or cleanly fielded but is counted as a hit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Baseball) a base hit which was weakly batted, barely allowing the batter to reach first base safely.
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