hit

[[t]hɪt[/t]]

v. hit, hit•ting, n.

1) to deal a blow or stroke to:

Hit the nail with the hammer[/ex]

2) to come against with an impact:

The wheel hit the curb[/ex]

3) to reach with a missile, a weapon, a blow, or the like, as one throwing, shooting, or striking:

Did the arrow hit the target?[/ex]

4) spo baseball

a) to make (a base hit)

b) bat I, 10)

5) to drive or propel by a stroke:

to hit a ball onto the green[/ex]

6) to affect severely:

to be hit hard by inflation[/ex]

7) to request or demand of:

He hit me for a loan[/ex]

8) to reach or attain (a specified level or amount):

Prices hit a new high[/ex]

9) to be appear in:

The story hit the front page[/ex]

10) to land on or arrive in:

The troops hit the beach at dawn[/ex]

11) to give (someone) another playing card, drink, portion, etc

12) to come or light upon; meet with; find:

to hit the right answer[/ex]

13) to succeed in representing or producing exactly:

to hit the right tone[/ex]

14) inf Informal. to begin to travel on:

Let's hit the road[/ex]

15) to strike with a missile, a weapon, or the like; deal a blow or blows

16) to come into collision (often fol. by against, on, or upon)

17) aum (of an internal-combustion engine) to ignite a mixture of air and fuel as intended

18) to come or light (usu. fol. by upon or on\):

to hit on a new way[/ex]

19) phv hit off

a) to represent or describe precisely or aptly

b) to imitate, esp. in order to satirize

20) phv+sts hit on, Slang. to make persistent sexual advances to

21) phv hit out

a) to deal a blow aimlessly

b) to make a violent verbal attack:

to hit out angrily at one's critics[/ex]

22) phv hit up, Slang.

a) to ask to borrow money from

b) to inject a narcotic drug into a vein

23) an impact or collision, as of one thing against another

24) a stroke that reaches an object; blow

25) a stroke of satire, censure, etc

26) spo base hit

27) gam Backgammon.

a) a game won by a player after the opponent has thrown off one or more men from the board

b) any winning game

28) a successful stroke, performance, or production; success:

The play is a hit[/ex]

29) cvb sts Slang. a dose of a narcotic drug

30) cmp new

a) cmp (in information retrieval) an instance of successfully locating an item of data in the memory bank of a computer

b) an instance of accessing a Web site

31) cvb sts Slang. a murder, esp. one carried out by criminal prearrangement

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- hit it off hit or miss hit the books hit the ceiling or roof hit the hay or sack hit the nail on the head hit the road

Etymology: bef. 1100; ME; late OE hittan, perh. < Scand; cf. ON hitta to come upon (by chance), meet with hit′ter, n. syn: See beat