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Definition hit
Etymology 1
From Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), probably from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijan? (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh?eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”). Cognate with Icelandic hitta (“to meet”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Latin caed? (“fall”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”).
Verb
hit (third-person singular simple present hits, present participle hitting, simple past hit or (dialectal) hat or (rare, dialectal) het, past participle hit or (dialectal) hitten)
- (heading, physical) To strike.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- (intransitive) To strike against something.
- (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
- (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- (heading) To attain, to achieve.
- (transitive) To affect negatively.
- (figuratively) To attack.
- (heading, games) To make a play.
- (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
- (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
- (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
Noun
hit (plural hits)
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
- (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
Adjective
hit (not comparable)
- Very successful.
Etymology 2
From Middle English hit (“it”), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *?e-, *?ey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Dutch het (“it”). More at it. Note 'it.
Pronoun
hit (subjective and objective hit, reflexive and intensive hitself, possessive adjective and noun hits)
- (dialectal) It.
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