hit | | |
1. v. To strike.: | |
2. v. To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile. | |
One boy hit the other. | |
3. v. To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly. | |
The ball hit the fence. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To strike against something. | |
5. v. (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party. | |
Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river. | |
6. v. (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously. | |
If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island. | |
7. v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit. | |
We hit the grocery store on the way to the park. | |
8. v. (transitive, informal) 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. | |
9. v. To attain, to achieve.: | |
10. v. (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve. | |
I hit the jackpot. The movie hits theaters in December. The temperature could hit 110°F tomorrow. We hit Detroit at one in the | |
11. v. (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck. | |
12. v. To guess; to light upon or discover. | |
13. v. To affect negatively. | |
The economy was hit by a recession. The hurricane hit his fishing business hard. | |
14. v. (heading, games) To make a play. | |
15. v. (transitive, cards) In blackjack, to deal a card to. | |
Hit me. | |
16. v. (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat. | |
Jones hit for the pitcher. | |
17. v. (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point. | |
18. v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to. | |
The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3. | |
19. v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with. | |
I'd hit that. | |
20. v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana. | |
21. n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything. | |
The hit was very slight. | |
22. n. Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim. | |
23. n. An attack on a location, person or people. | |
24. n. In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is. | |
25. n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine | |
26. n. (Internet) 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. | |
27. n. An approximately correct answer in a test set. | |
28. n. (baseball) 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. | |
29. n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug. | |
Where am I going to get my next hit? | |
30. n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes. | |
31. n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark. | |
a happy hit | |
32. n. (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point. | |
33. n. (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon. | |
34. adj. Very successful. | |
The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans. | |
35. pron. (dialectal) it, It. | |