switch-hit
verb
ˈswich-ˈhit 
switch-hit; switch-hitting
intransitive verb
: to bat right-handed against a left-handed pitcher and left-handed against a right-handed pitcher in baseball
Word History
Etymology
back-formation from switch-hitter
First Known Use
1938, in the meaning defined above
- temporary chairman
- temporary duty
- temporary hardness
- temporary life annuity
- temporary partial disability
- temporary star
- temporary total disability
- temporary wilting
- temporisation
- temporisations
- temporise
- temporised
- temporiser
- temporisers
- temporises
- temporising
- temporisingly
- temporisings
- temporization
- temporizations
- temporize
- temporized
- temporizer
- temporizers
- temporizes