"pinch-hit" meaning in English

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      "form": "pinch-hitting",
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        "present"
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      "form": "pinch-hit",
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        "past"
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Baseball",
          "orig": "en:Baseball",
          "parents": [
            "Ball games",
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Jones pinch-hit for Smith in the sixth."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bat in place of another player"
      ],
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        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
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        [
          "bat",
          "bat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, baseball) To bat in place of another player"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Jones pinch-hit for Smith during today's presentation."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To do something in the place of another person who is not able to perform or is less skilled; to substitute or stand in for somebody."
      ],
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          "substitute",
          "substitute"
        ],
        [
          "stand in",
          "stand in"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To do something in the place of another person who is not able to perform or is less skilled; to substitute or stand in for somebody."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "pinch-hit"
}

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    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pinch-hits",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinch-hitting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinch-hit",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "en:Baseball"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Jones pinch-hit for Smith in the sixth."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bat in place of another player"
      ],
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        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
        ],
        [
          "bat",
          "bat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, baseball) To bat in place of another player"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
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        {
          "text": "Jones pinch-hit for Smith during today's presentation."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To do something in the place of another person who is not able to perform or is less skilled; to substitute or stand in for somebody."
      ],
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        [
          "substitute",
          "substitute"
        ],
        [
          "stand in",
          "stand in"
        ]
      ],
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        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To do something in the place of another person who is not able to perform or is less skilled; to substitute or stand in for somebody."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ]
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