Usually means: Substitute batter in baseball game.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word pinch hitter:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinch hitter: Merriam-Webster
  2. pinch hitter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pinch-hitter, pinch-hitter, pinch hitter: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pinch hitter: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pinch-hitter, pinch-hitter: Wordnik
  6. pinch-hitter, pinch hitter: Wiktionary
  7. pinch hitter: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. pinch hitter: Dictionary.com
  9. Pinch hitter (cricket), Pinch hitter, The Pinch Hitter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. pinch hitter: Rhymezone
  11. pinch hitter: FreeDictionary.org
  12. pinch hitter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Pinch-hitter, pinch hitter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pinch-hitter, Pinch hitter (baseball), pinch hitter: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pinch-hitter, pinch hitter: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinch hitter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pinch hitter: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pinch hitter: Sports Definitions

(Note: See pinch_hitters as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pinch hitter)

noun:  (baseball) A substitute batter; one who pinch-hits.
noun:  (cricket) An aggressive batsman brought on to score runs quickly, even at the risk of losing his wicket.
noun:  (colloquial) A person who substitutes for another to perform one or more tasks.

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