Etymology : Middle English, from Old English hittan, from Old Norse hitta to meet with, hit
Pronunciation : hit
Function : verb
Date : before 12th century
1. stroke, blow; collision; success, popular event or production; blockbuster, movie which is a gigantic financial success; premeditated killing, murder (Slang). strike, beat; collide; come in contact with; reach, arrive at; find; affect strongly. (See a hit). hit\hit\ , pron. it. [obs.]hit \hit\, 3d pers. sing. pres. of hide, contracted from hideth. [obs.]hit \hit\ , v. t. [imp. & p. p. hit; p. pr. & vb. n. hitting.] [oe. hitten, hutten, of scand. origin; cf. dan. hitte to hit, find, sw. & icel. hitta.].
2. to reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at). i think you have hit the mark.
3. to reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit. birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right. there you hit him; that argument never fails with him. whose saintly visage is too bright to hit the sense of human sight. he scarcely hit my humor.
4. to guess; to light upon or discover. "thou hast hit it.".
5. (backgammon) to take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
6. It. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth.
7. To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch.
8. To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit.
9. To guess; to light upon or discover.
10. To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
11. To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; followed by against or on.
12. To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often with implied chance, or luck.
13. A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
14. A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit.
15. A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.
16. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men.
17. It counts less than a gammon.
18. A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; sometimes used specifically for a base hit. a successful stroke in an athletic contest ; "he came all the way around on Williams' hit" a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang" the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit" a connection made via the internet to another website; "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide" a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit" a dose of a narcotic drug pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars" hit the intended target or goal consume to excess; "hit the bottle" affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit by really bad weather"; "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager"; "The earthquake struck at midnight" hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow" deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face" cause to move by striking; "hit a ball" drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling" cause to experience suddenly; "Panic struck me"; "An interesting idea hit her"; "A thought came to me"; "The thought struck terror in our minds"; "They were struck with fear".
19. The form hit is used in the present tense and is the past and present participle.
20. If you hit someone or something, you deliberately touch them with a lot of force, with your hand or an object held in your hand. Find the exact grip that allows you to hit the ball hard Police at the scene said Dr Mahgoub had been hit several times in the head. = strike.
21. When one thing hits another, it touches it with a lot of force. The car had apparently hit a traffic sign before skidding out of control = strike.
22. If a bomb or missile hits its target, it reaches it. The hospital had been hit with heavy artillery fire. Hit is also a noun. First a house took a direct hit and then the rocket exploded.
23. If something hits a person, place, or thing, it affects them very badly. The plan to charge motorists £75 a year to use the motorway is going to hit me hard About two-hundred people died in the earthquake which hit northern Peru.
24. When a feeling or an idea hits you, it suddenly affects you or comes into your mind. It hit me that I had a choice Then the answer hit me. It had been staring me in the face.
25. If you hit a particular high or low point on a scale of something such as success or health, you reach it. Oil prices hit record levels yesterday.
26. If a CD, film, or play is a hit, it is very popular and successful. The song became a massive hit in 1945. ¡Ù flop.
27. A hit is a single visit to a website. Our small company has had 78,000 hits on its Internet pages.
28. If someone who is searching for information on the Internet gets a hit, they find a website where there is that information.
29. If two people hit it off, they like each other and become friendly as soon as they meet. They hit it off straight away, Daddy and Walter.
30. to hit the headlines: see:
headline to hit home: see home to hit the nail on the head: see nail to hit the road: see road to hit the roof: see roof.
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