switch-hitter
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switch-hitter (plural switch-hitters)
- (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.
- (cricket) A batsman who performs switch-hits.
- (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.