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Definition of Hit

1. Noun. (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball). "He came all the way around on Williams' hit"

2. Verb. Cause to move by striking. "The children hit the ball"; "Hit a ball"

3. Noun. The act of contacting one thing with another. "After three misses she finally got a hit"

4. Verb. Hit against; come into sudden contact with. "The car hits the tree "; "He struck the table with his elbow"

5. Noun. A conspicuous success. "The party went with a bang"

6. Verb. Deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument. "The fighter managed to hit his opponent"; "He hit her hard in the face"

7. Noun. (physics) a 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"

8. Verb. Reach a destination, either real or abstract. "They hit the hill"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"

9. Verb. Affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely. "The wind storms hit the area with dust and dirt"; "The earthquake struck at midnight"

10. Noun. A dose of a narcotic drug.

11. Verb. Hit with a missile from a weapon.

12. Noun. A murder carried out by an underworld syndicate. "It has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"

13. Verb. Encounter by chance. "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"

14. Noun. A connection made via the internet to another website. "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"

15. Verb. Gain points in a game. "He hit .300 in the past season"

16. Verb. Cause to experience suddenly. "They were struck with fear"

17. Verb. Make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target. "In the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5 to 2"

18. Verb. Kill intentionally and with premeditation. "Sam cannot hit Sue "; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"

19. Verb. Drive something violently into a location. "She struck her head on the low ceiling"

20. Verb. Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level. "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"

21. Verb. Produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically. "Her comments struck a sour note"

22. Verb. Consume to excess. "Hit the bottle"

23. Verb. Hit the intended target or goal.

24. Verb. Pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to. "He tries to hit on women in bars"

Definition of Hit

1. pron. It.

2. 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).

3. v. i. To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on.

4. n. A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

Definition of Hit

1. Verb. (transitive) To administer a blow to. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive colloquial) To briefly visit. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive informal) To encounter. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive informal) To reach or achieve. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To affect negatively. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party. ¹

8. Verb. (transitive cards) In blackjack, to deal a card to. ¹

9. Verb. (intransitive baseball) To come up to bat. ¹

10. Verb. (transitive computing programming) To use. ¹

11. Verb. (transitive US slang) To have sex with. ¹

12. Noun. A blow; a punch. ¹

13. Noun. A success, especially in the entertainment industry. ¹

14. Noun. An attack on a location, person or people. ¹

15. Noun. (computing) (Internet) The result(s) of a search of a computer system or, for example, the entire Internet using a search engine ¹

16. Noun. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server. ¹

17. Noun. An approximately correct answer in a test set. ¹

18. Noun. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice. ¹

19. Noun. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug. ¹

20. Noun. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes. ¹

21. Noun. In the game of ''Battleship'', a correct guess where one's opponent ship is. ¹

22. Pronoun. (context: dialectal) (it It). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hit

1. to strike forcibly [v HIT, HITTING, HITS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hit

histrionic personality disorder histrionic spasm histrionical histrionically histrionicism histrionick histrionics histrionism histrionisms histrionize

histrionized histrionizing histrions histrios hists hit-and-miss hit-and-run hit-and-run(a) hit-by-pitch hit-or-miss

hit-out hit-outs hit-skip hit a home run hit a nerve hit a raw nerve hit a six hit a snag hit above one's weight

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