hit

Meaning

Verb

1. To strike.
2. To strike.
3. To strike.
4. To strike.
5. (slang) To strike.
6. To strike.
7. To strike.
8. To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
9. (colloquial) To switch on.
10. (informal) To commence playing.
11. (colloquial) To briefly visit.
12. (informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
13. (informal) To attain, to achieve.
14. To attain, to achieve.
15. To attain, to achieve.
16. To affect negatively.
17. To attack.
18. To make a play.
19. To make a play.
20. To make a play.
21. To use; to connect to.
22. (slang) To have sex with.
23. (slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
24. (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
25. to work out

Noun

1. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
2. Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
3. A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
4. An attack on a location, person or people.
5. A collision of a projectile with the target.
6. A collision of a projectile with the target.
7. A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
8. A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
9. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
10. The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
11. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
12. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
13. A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
14. A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
15. A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

Adj

Very successful.

Pron

It.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).
Cognate with Icelandic hitta (“to meet”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Latin caedō (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”).

Sentences

Their parody of " Baby It's Cold Outside ", recorded with June Carter , became a hit .