When you hit someone, you smack or strike them either with an object or with your hand. If you're frustrated about how slowly the traffic is moving, you might hit the dashboard of your car with your fist. Ouch.
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Noun
(baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams'' hit"
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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"
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the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit"
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a connection made via the internet to another website; "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"
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a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"
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a dose of a narcotic drug
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(physics) an brief event in which two or more bodies come together; "the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction"
Verb
pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars"
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gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season"
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make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target; "The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1, 1939"; "We must strike the enemy''s oil fields"; "in the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5 to
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hit with a missile from a weapon
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hit the intended target or goal
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consume to excess; "hit the bottle"
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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"
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produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically; "The pianist strikes a middle C"; "strike `z'' on the keyboard"; "her comments struck a sour note"
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hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow"
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deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"
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cause to move by striking; "hit a ball"
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reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"
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reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"
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drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling"
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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"
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encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"
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kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
pron.
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3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth.
imp. & p. p.
of Hit
v. t.
To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually
with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To guess; to light upon or discover.
v. t.
To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing
player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
v. i.
To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; --
followed by against or on.
v. i.
To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed,
-- often with implied chance, or luck.
n.
A striking against; the collision of one body against another;
the stroke that touches anything.
n.
A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate
chance; as, he made a hit.
n.
A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which
hits the mark; as, a happy hit.
n.
A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some
of his men. It counts less than a gammon.
n.
A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; --
sometimes used specifically for a base hit.
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I think you have hit the mark.2.
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.3.
Hit
If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another?
Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them.2.
And oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
And millions miss for one that hits.
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So he the famed Cilician fencer praised, And, at each hit, with wonder seems amazed.2.
What late he called a blessing, now was wit, And God's good providence, a lucky hit.3.
It.
3d pers. sing. pres. of
To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).
To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on.
A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
Usage Examples
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.
But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.
Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.
Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever.
And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.
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Other Usage ExamplesBut all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.
Asian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit - maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor that's usually working in Asian food.
After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.
Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in ''94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it.
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.
Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
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