trail hitter
noun1
Informal One who converts to a revivalist form of Christianity.
- In the final count, Billy Sunday's 1918 Chicago revival attracted 49,165 converted trail-hitters, placing the city third, behind New York and Boston, in the number of revival converts.2013, Thekla Ellen Joiner, Sin in the City: Chicago and Revivalism, 1880-1920, page 219:
- Related terms
- hit the trail