| 词汇 | switch-hitter |
| 词源 | switch-hitter. There have been switch-hitters (hitters who can bat left-handed or right-handed) in professional baseball since at least 1870 when Robert V. Ferguson of the Brooklyn Atlant- ers batted this way. But the term switch-hitter may not have been coined until the 1920s. The word is now used generally to mean a versatile person and is also slang for a bisexual person. |
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