To come into contact with forcefully; strike: The car hit the guardrail.
To reach with or as if with a blow: The bullet hit the police officer in the shoulder.
To cause to come into contact: She hit her hand against the wall.
To deal a blow to.
To strike with a missile: fired and hit the target.
To reach with a propelled ball or puck: hit the running back with a pass.
To score in this way: She hit the winning basket.
To perform (a shot or maneuver) successfully: couldn't hit the jump shot.
To propel with a stroke or blow: hit the ball onto the green.
To execute (a base hit) successfully: hit a single.
To bat against (a pitcher or kind of pitch) successfully: can't hit a slider.
To affect, especially adversely: The company was hit hard by the recession. Influenza hit the elderly the hardest.
To be affected by (a negative development): Their marriage hit a bad patch.
To win (a prize, for example), especially in a lottery.
To arise suddenly in the mind of; occur to: It finally hit him that she might be his long-lost sister.
Informal To go to or arrive at: We hit the beach early.
Informal To attain or reach: Monthly sales hit a new high. She hit 40 on her last birthday.
To produce or represent accurately: trying to hit the right note.
To cause to come into contact: She hit her hand against the wall.
To deal a blow to.
To strike with a missile: fired and hit the target.
To reach with a propelled ball or puck: hit the running back with a pass.
To score in this way: She hit the winning basket.
To perform (a shot or maneuver) successfully: couldn't hit the jump shot.
To propel with a stroke or blow: hit the ball onto the green.
To execute (a base hit) successfully: hit a single.
To bat against (a pitcher or kind of pitch) successfully: can't hit a slider.
To affect, especially adversely: The company was hit hard by the recession. Influenza hit the elderly the hardest.
To be affected by (a negative development): Their marriage hit a bad patch.
To win (a prize, for example), especially in a lottery.
To arise suddenly in the mind of; occur to: It finally hit him that she might be his long-lost sister.
Informal To go to or arrive at: We hit the beach early.
Informal To attain or reach: Monthly sales hit a new high. She hit 40 on her last birthday.
To produce or represent accurately: trying to hit the right note.
To press or push (a key or button, for example): hit the return key by mistake.
Sports
To reach with a propelled ball or puck: hit the running back with a pass.
To score in this way: She hit the winning basket.
To perform (a shot or maneuver) successfully: couldn't hit the jump shot.
To propel with a stroke or blow: hit the ball onto the green.
To execute (a base hit) successfully: hit a single.
To bat against (a pitcher or kind of pitch) successfully: can't hit a slider.
To affect, especially adversely: The company was hit hard by the recession. Influenza hit the elderly the hardest.
To be affected by (a negative development): Their marriage hit a bad patch.
To win (a prize, for example), especially in a lottery.
To arise suddenly in the mind of; occur to: It finally hit him that she might be his long-lost sister.
Informal To go to or arrive at: We hit the beach early.
Informal To attain or reach: Monthly sales hit a new high. She hit 40 on her last birthday.
To produce or represent accurately: trying to hit the right note.
Baseball
To execute (a base hit) successfully: hit a single.
To bat against (a pitcher or kind of pitch) successfully: can't hit a slider.
To affect, especially adversely: The company was hit hard by the recession. Influenza hit the elderly the hardest.
To be affected by (a negative development): Their marriage hit a bad patch.
To win (a prize, for example), especially in a lottery.
To arise suddenly in the mind of; occur to: It finally hit him that she might be his long-lost sister.
Informal To go to or arrive at: We hit the beach early.
Informal To attain or reach: Monthly sales hit a new high. She hit 40 on her last birthday.
To produce or represent accurately: trying to hit the right note.
To affect, especially adversely: The company was hit hard by the recession. Influenza hit the elderly the hardest.
To be affected by (a negative development): Their marriage hit a bad patch.
To win (a prize, for example), especially in a lottery.
To arise suddenly in the mind of; occur to: It finally hit him that she might be his long-lost sister.
Informal To go to or arrive at: We hit the beach early.
Informal To attain or reach: Monthly sales hit a new high. She hit 40 on her last birthday.
To produce or represent accurately: trying to hit the right note.
Informal
To win (a prize, for example), especially in a lottery.
To arise suddenly in the mind of; occur to: It finally hit him that she might be his long-lost sister.
Informal To go to or arrive at: We hit the beach early.
Informal To attain or reach: Monthly sales hit a new high. She hit 40 on her last birthday.
To produce or represent accurately: trying to hit the right note.
Informal To go to or arrive at: We hit the beach early.
Informal To attain or reach: Monthly sales hit a new high. She hit 40 on her last birthday.
To produce or represent accurately: trying to hit the right note.
Games To deal cards to.
Sports To bite on or take (bait or a lure). Used of a fish.
v.
intr.
To strike or deal a blow.
To come into contact with something; collide.
To attack: The raiders hit at dawn.
To happen or occur: The storm hit without warning.
To achieve or find something desired or sought: finally hit on the answer; hit upon a solution to the problem.
Baseball To bat or bat well: Their slugger hasn't been hitting lately.
Sports To score by shooting, especially in basketball: hit on 7 of 8 shots.
To ignite a mixture of air and fuel in the cylinders. Used of an internal-combustion engine.
n.
A collision or impact.
A successfully executed shot, blow, thrust, or throw.
Sports A deliberate collision with an opponent, such as a body check in ice hockey.
A match of data in a search string against data that one is searching.
A connection made to a website over the Internet or another network: Our company's website gets about 2,000 hits daily.
A dose of a narcotic drug.
A puff of a cigarette or a pipe.
A successful or popular venture: a Broadway hit.
Computer Science
A match of data in a search string against data that one is searching.
A connection made to a website over the Internet or another network: Our company's website gets about 2,000 hits daily.
A dose of a narcotic drug.
A puff of a cigarette or a pipe.
An apt or effective remark.
Abbr. HBaseball A base hit.
Slang
A dose of a narcotic drug.
A puff of a cigarette or a pipe.
Slang A murder planned and carried out usually by a member of an underworld syndicate.
Phrasal Verb(s): hit on Slang To pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to: can't go into a bar lately without being hit on. hit up Slang To approach and ask (someone) for something, especially for money: tried to hit me up for a loan.
Idiom(s):
hit it big Slang To be successful: investors who hit it big on the stock market.
Idiom(s):
hit it off Informal To get along well together.
Idiom(s):
hit the books Informal To study, especially with concentrated effort.
Idiom(s):
hit the bottle/booze/sauce Slang To engage in drinking alcoholic beverages.
Idiom(s):
hit the bricks Slang To go on strike.
Idiom(s):
hit the fan Slang To have serious, usually adverse consequences.
Idiom(s):
hit the ground running Informal To begin a venture with great energy, involvement, and competence.
Idiom(s):
hit the hay/sack Slang To go to bed: hit the hay well before midnight.
Idiom(s):
hit the high points/spotsTo direct attention to the most important points or places.
Idiom(s):
hit the jackpotTo become highly and unexpectedly successful, especially to win a great deal of money.
Idiom(s):
hit the nail on the headTo be absolutely right.
Idiom(s):
hit the road Slang To set out, as on a trip; leave.
Idiom(s):
hit the roof/ceiling Slang To express anger, especially vehemently.
Idiom(s):
hit the spotTo give total or desired satisfaction, as food or drink.
[Middle English hitten, from Old English hyttan, from Old Norse hitta.] hit'less adj., hit'ta·ble adj.
Score a major success, especially a profit, as in Some investors hit it big in the stock market. The adverb big here means "with great success." [Slang; late 1800s]
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