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lead off

noun, verb — 7 senses

lead off

noun
1

Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports The first batter in the batting order.

  • Jones has been the team's lead off hitter for three years.
2

Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports The first batter of an inning.

  • The lead off hitter for the sixth inning is Jones.
3

Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports The short distance that a player stands away from their current base.

4

Broadcasting, Media The first item in a broadcast schedule.

lead off

verb
1

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lead, off.

  • The kitchen and the lounge lead off from the hallway.
  • Hu, 79, Xi Jinping's immediate predecessor, was seated to the left of Xi. He was led off the stage of the main auditorium of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing by two stewards, a Reuters witness at the congress said.2022 October 22, Eduardo Baptista, Ryan Woo, “Former Chinese president Hu Jintao escorted out of party congress”, in Robert Birsel, Lincoln Feast, William Mallard, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2022:
2

Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To be the first batter of an inning.

  • Jones led off the inning with a home run.
  • Jones is leading off an inning for the third time in the game.
3

Broadly To be the first of any set, especially the first person in a group to speak; to launch or begin something by speaking.

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.