Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To hit (a tennis or cricket ball, for example) incorrectly or badly.
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- noun sports An
incorrect or badhit . - verb transitive To
incorrectly or badly hit.
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Examples
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If we mishit a golf ball, we must work ourselves out of trouble.
Michael J. Critelli: Golf in the Next Generation: Internalizing Its Deepest Values Michael J. Critelli 2011
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If we mishit a baseball into foul territory, we get a new pitch.
Michael J. Critelli: Golf in the Next Generation: Internalizing Its Deepest Values Michael J. Critelli 2011
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If we mishit a golf ball, we must work ourselves out of trouble.
Michael J. Critelli: Golf in the Next Generation: Internalizing Its Deepest Values Michael J. Critelli 2011
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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.
Novak Djokovic Eliminates Roger Federer In U.S. Open Semifinals 2011
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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 2009
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If we mishit a baseball into foul territory, we get a new pitch.
Michael J. Critelli: Golf in the Next Generation: Internalizing Its Deepest Values Michael J. Critelli 2011
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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.
Stoke City v Newcastle United - as it happened | Jacob Steinberg 2011
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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 Ashes 2010: Mike Hussey and Brad Haddin make England suffer Vic Marks in Brisbane 2010
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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.
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In fact, often a mishit header or chest back to the keeper from a defender can lead to a goal.
Five modest proposals to make the game better. Duane Rollins 2009
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