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.
n. a drunkard. : The bar was empty save an old bottle propped against the side of a booth.
n. the bottle liquor. (Always with the in this sense.) : Her only true love is the bottle.
in. to drink liquor to excess. : Let's go out and bottle into oblivion.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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hit the bottle
and hit the booze
tv. to go on a drinking bout; to get drunk. : She got caught hitting the bottle in the office. , He's been hitting the booze for a week now.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History
bottle
1346, originally of leather, from O.Fr. boteille, from L.L. butticula dim. of L. buttis "a cask." The verb is first recorded 1641. Bottleneck in the fig. sense of "something obstructing even flow" (of traffic, production, etc.) is from 1896.
Main Entry: bot·tle Pronunciation: 'bät-&l Function: noun often attributive1: a rigid or semirigid containertypically of glass or plastic having a comparatively narrow neck or mouth and usually no handle —see WASH BOTTLE 2: liquid food usually consisting of milk and supplements that is fed from a bottle (as to an infant) in place of mother's milk
Also, hit the booze or sauce. Drink alcoholic beverages, especially a great deal, as in I don't know if it will be a problem, but he hits the bottle every weekend, or She hardly ever hits the booze, but when she does, watch out, or It doesn't show in her work, but she hits the sauce every night. These slangy expressions date from the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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