hit

Plural: hits

Noun

• (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball)
  • "he came all the way around on Williams' hit"
• the act of contacting one thing with another
  • "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"
  • "after three misses she finally got a hit"
• a conspicuous success
  • "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"
• (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
• a dose of a narcotic drug
• a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
  • "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"
• a connection made via the internet to another website
  • "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"
• A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
• Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
• A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
• An attack on a location, person or people.
• A collision of a projectile with the target.
• A collision of a projectile with the target.
• In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
• A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
• A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
• A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
• A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

Verb

Verb Forms: hit, hitting, hits

• To strike forcibly.
• cause to move by striking
  • "hit a ball"
• hit against; come into sudden contact with
  • "The car hit a tree"
• deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
  • "He hit her hard in the face"
• reach a destination, either real or abstract
  • "We hit Detroit by noon"
  • "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"
• affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
  • "We were hit by really bad weather"
• hit with a missile from a weapon
• encounter by chance
• gain points in a game
  • "He hit a home run"
  • "He hit .300 in the past season"
• cause to experience suddenly
  • "An interesting idea hit her"
• make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
• kill intentionally and with premeditation
• drive something violently into a location
  • "he hit his fist on the table"
• reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
  • "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"
• produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically
• consume to excess
  • "hit the bottle"
• hit the intended target or goal
• pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
  • "He tries to hit on women in bars"
• To strike.
• To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
• To strike.
• To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
• To strike.
• To strike against something.
• To strike.
• To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
• To strike.
• To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
• To strike.
• To attack, especially amphibiously.
• To strike.
• To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
• To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
• To switch on or switch off (lights).
• To commence playing.
• To briefly visit.
• To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• To attain, to achieve.
• To reach or achieve.
• To attain, to achieve.
• To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
• To attain, to achieve.
• To guess; to light upon or discover.
• To affect negatively.
• To attack.
• To make a play.
• In blackjack, to deal a card to.
• To make a play.
• To come up to bat.
• To make a play.
• To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
• To use; to connect to.
• To have sex with.
• To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
• To work out.

Adj

• Very successful.

Pron

• It.

Examples

• a happy hit
• He hoped to hit a bingo with the letters currently on his rack in Words With Friends.
• His reputation took a hit when the new information came to light.
• Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.
• Hit me.
• Hit the Enter key to continue.
• I hit the jackpot.
• I used to listen to that song all the time, but it hits different(ly) now.
• I'd hit that!
• I'd love to hear your band play. Hit it boys!
• If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island.
• Jones hit for the pitcher.
• My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.
• One boy hit the other.
• Somebody's been here! Hit the lights!
• The ball hit the fence.
• The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.
• The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.
• The economy was hit by a recession.  The hurricane hit his fishing business hard.
• The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3.
• The hit was very slight.
• The movie hits theaters in December.
• The temperature could hit 110°F tomorrow.
• Their coffee really hits the spot.
• This is another great exercise which hits the long head.
• We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies.
• We hit Detroit at one in the morning but kept driving through the night.
• We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.
• Where am I going to get my next hit?
• With that said, the group hitting their legs just once a week still made gains.
• You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend too late.

Synonyms

arrive at, attain, bang, bump off, collide with, collision, come to, dispatch, gain, hitting, impinge on, make, murder, off, pip, polish off, rack up, reach, remove, run into, score, shoot, slay, smash, smasher, strike, striking, stumble, tally, attack, baste, batter, beat, belabor, beset, blow, boom-boom, buffet, butt, calcitrate, copulate with, dab, dash, do away with, dowse, fall upon, fetch one a blow, flap, give toco, hammer, hit, hit the gym, impact, jerk, kick, kill, knock, lay into, lunge, pat, patter, pelt, pink, poke, pound, pummel, punch, ram, rap, slam, slap, smite, smoke up, swap, tap, thrash, thump, thwack, toke, vapulate, whack, whip, yerk

Antonyms

miss, block, flop, turkey

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