hit-and-run

See also: hit and run

English

Noun

hit-and-run (countable and uncountable, plural hit-and-runs)

1. Alternative spelling of hit and run

Adjective

hit-and-run (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or being a hit and run.
   • 1963 February, Rick Raphael, “Code Three”, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Janiri:

     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.