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- no-hitter (n.)




- baseball term for a baseball game in which one side fails to make a hit, 1939, from no + hit (n.).
- rain-out (n.)




- also rain out, rainout, 1947, from rain (v.) + out (adv.). Of baseball games, to be rained out is attested from 1928.
- raincheck (n.)




- also rain-check, rain check, 1884; see rain (n.) + check (n.1). Originally of tickets to rained-out baseball games.
- twi-night (adj.)




- 1939, in reference to evening double-header baseball games, from twilight + night.