hit

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To strike.

   • One boy hit the other.
   • He tried to hit me but I dodged the blow and went out to plot revenge.
2. 2

   To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.

   • I hit the jackpot.
3. 3

   To switch on or switch off (lights).

   • Somebody's been here! Hit the lights!
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   1. 4

      To commence playing.

      • - I'd love to hear your band play. - Hit it, boys!
   2. 5

      To briefly visit.

      • We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.
   3. 6

      To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.

      • You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend too late.
      • We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies.
   4. 7

      To attain, to achieve.

      • The movie hits theaters in December.
      • The temperature could hit 110°F tomorrow.
      • We hit Detroit at one in the morning but kept driving through the night.
   5. 8

      To affect negatively.

      • The economy was hit by a recession.  The hurricane hit his fishing business hard.
   6. 9

      To attack.

      • I have to say this, he hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I’ve never heard of this one. Look at those hands. Are they small hands?
   7. 10

      To make a play.

      • Hit me.
   8. 11

      To use

      To use; to connect to.

      • The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3.
   9. 12

      To have sex with.

      • I'd hit that!
   10. 13

       To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.

       • Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to have bread to get it.
   11. 14

       (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.

       • This is another great exercise which hits the long head.
   12. 15

       To work out.

       • With that said, the group hitting their legs just once a week still made gains.
   13. 16

       A blow

       A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

       • So he the fam'd Cilician fencer prais'd, / And, at each hit, with wonder seem'd amaz'd.
       • The hit was very slight.
   14. 17

       Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread…

       Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.

       • Marie Taglioni was another hit for Her Majesty's Theatre last season, and will be a hit again this season[…]
       • Chico & Rita opens in the modern era, as an aged, weary Chico shines shoes in his native Cuba. Then a song heard on the radio—a hit he wrote and recorded with Rita in their youth—carries him back to 1948 Havana, where they first met.
   15. 18

       An attack on a location, person or people.

   16. 19

       A collision of a projectile with the target.

   17. 20

       A match found by searching a computer system or search engine

   18. 21

       A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.

       • My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.
   19. 22

       An approximately correct answer in a test set.

   20. 23

       The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or…

       The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.

       • The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.
   21. 24

       A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.

       • Where am I going to get my next hit?
   22. 25

       A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.

       • The questions that have always haunted the family — who ordered the hit, and why, and who in London might have known — remain unanswered.
   23. 26

       A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought

       A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.

       • a happy hit
       • What late he called a blessing, now was wit, / And God's good providence, a lucky hit.
   24. 27

       A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.

   25. 28

       A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a…

       A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

   26. 29

       Very successful.

       • The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.
   27. 30

       It.

       • But how hit was to come about didn't appear.
       • Now, George, grease it good, an' let hit slide down the hill hits own way.
   28. 31

       Acronym of high-intensity interval training.

   29. 32

       Acronym of high-intensity training.

   30. 33

       Initialism of health information technology.

   31. 34

       Initialism of hyperspectral imaging technique.

   32. 35

       Acronym of human intelligence task

   33. 36

       Abbreviation of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.

   34. 37

       Abbreviation of herd immunity threshold.

   35. 38

       A city in Iraq.

The neighborhood

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• antonymmissantonym(s) of “manage to touch in the right place”
• antonymblock
• antonymflopantonym(s) of “success”
• antonymturkeyantonym(s) of “success”
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