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Definition of hit-and-miss adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

hit-and-miss

adjective

(also hit-or-miss)

not done in a careful or planned way and therefore not likely to be successful The procedure is far too clumsy and hit-and-miss. The professor's deafness made conversation a hit-and-miss affair.

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