switch-hitter

See also: switch hitter

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switch-hitter (plural switch-hitters)

  1. (baseball) A person who can bat either as a right-hander or a left-hander; an ambidextrous batter.
    • 1961, National Association of Basketball Coaches of the United States, American Football Coaches Association, Athletic Journal, Volume 46 Page 23
      The average ball player can become an effective switch hitter only if he has switched hit from the time he commenced playing.
  2. (cricket) A batsman who performs switch-hits.
  3. (slang, sexuality) A person who has sex with both male and female sexual partners.
    Synonym: bisexual
    • 1983, Edmund White, States of Desire: Travels in Gay America, page 218:
      I met this fat, balding, bisexual 'switch-hitter'— that was his word, 'switch-hitter'— and he was my first experience."
    • 2010, Paul Bouchard, A Package at Gitmo, page 78:
      The thinking is Ralston's gay—lots of us Fifth Squadders think he's gay. […] Or maybe he's a switch-hitter, a bisexual. Who knows?

References
  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
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