Lexic.us

Definition of Hit parade

1. Noun. A collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kind.

2. Noun. A ranked list of the songs that are most popular at a given time.

Definition of Hit parade

1. Noun. A list of the most popular songs at the moment. ¹

2. Noun. (baseball) Many hits in a row scored by one team. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hit Parade

hit counter hit counters hit home hit it big hit it off hit it up hit list hit lists hit man hit men

hit one's stride hit one out of the ballpark hit out hit parade (current term) hit parades hit paydirt hit point hit points hit someone for six hit squad

hit test hit tests hit the ball twice hit the big time hit the books hit the bottle hit the bricks hit the buffers

Literary usage of Hit parade

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Financial Or Intellectual Imperatives: Working Partnerships in Higher by Glenda Kruss (2006)
"The analogy of a hit parade is appropriate here, to understand the relationship of the 17 to the higher education sector with high technology capacity and ..."

2. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General by M. Joycelyn Elders (1997)
"... The Kay Kayser Kollege of Musical Knowledge, and the best-known and longest running of the popular music shows, The Lucky Strike hit parade. ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1825)
"hit parade of anatomical science led him alia occasionally into a species of caricature. Notwithstanding, (ar be it from us to call into question the vigour ..."

4. Security Awareness in the 1980s: Featured Articles From Security Awareness (1992)
"One very common security violation (Number4 on our "hit parade") is the unauthorized retention of classified documents on disk or tape after completion of a ..."

5. Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"Actually, if things were fair, he'd be number one on the hit parade, he covered so much ground. However, because cannibalism simply wasn't possible among ..."

6. The Internet in the Mideast and North Africa: Free Expression and Censorship by Human Rights Watch, Eric Goldstein (1999)
"See, for example, "Web Languages hit parade," June 1997 (<http://babel.alis.com:8080/ pa!mares.en.html>), compiled by the Babel Team, ajoint initiative of ..."

7. Cruising the Mexican Riviera and Baja: A Guide to the Ships & the Ports of Call by Larry Ludmer (2005)
"Veteran cruisers and other travelers will give you a wide variety of opinions on where Acapulco ranks in the shopping hit parade, from near the top to near ..."

8. Dutch Type by Jan Middendorp (2004)
"... it became hugely successful as a font for dry transfer lettering. ; One of its best-known uses was the masthead of the weekly national hit parade. ..."

Other Resources: