hit and run
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3.7
- noun
- /hɪt ənd rʌn/
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atropello y fuga
- Police are investigating a recent hit and run that occurred late at night on Main Street.
- hit and run driver
- hit and run accident
- hit and run victim
I decided to look this guy up and found out he has a lengthy criminal record such as drug paraphernalia possession, hit and run, assault and robbery.
- I decided to look this guy up and found out he has a lengthy criminal record such as drug paraphernalia possession, hit and run, assault and robbery.
Examples
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The victim was able to recall the hit-and-run vehicle's tag number.
Blog text (24) -
Never saw him, it was your basic hit and run.
Fiction book (1991) -
Looking into a possible hit and run.
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Uh, they say a hit and run, no witnesses?
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OFFICER: Investigating a hit and run.
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We had a hit and run on one of our son's vehicles sometime during the night.
Blog text (6) -
Now, we are dealing with dozens of hit-and-runs right now.
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She said that the hit-and-run car must have been black.
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I lost my son Shannon to a hit-and-run driver on I-75 on April 21.
Blog text (32) -
In the meantime, Davies' mother, Eugenie, is killed in what looks like a tragic hit-and-run traffic accident.
Blog text (24)
Synonyms
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5.4
A vehicle crash caused by a driver who leaves without helping or saying who they are
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'hit' (a collision) plus 'run' (to flee) joined by 'and' describes the two actions in sequence, so a learner who knows the constituent words can infer a collision followed by the driver fleeing the scene. This literal action-sequence pattern is common cross-linguistically, making the expression immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Hit and run comes from the simple image of a driver who hits another car or a person and then runs away instead of stopping to help. So it means 'a road accident in which a driver leaves the scene without stopping to provide information or help'.