Hit Definition

hĭt
hits, hitter, hitting
verb
hits, hitting
To come against, usually with force; strike.
The car hit the tree.
Webster's New World
To give a blow or blows; strike.
Webster's New World
To knock, bump, or strike.
Webster's New World
To come by accident or after search.
Webster's New World
To cause an implement or missile to come forcefully into contact with.
Hit the nail with a hammer.
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noun
hits
A collision or impact.
American Heritage
A blow, shot, etc. that strikes its mark.
Webster's New World
A collision of one thing with another.
Webster's New World
A deliberate collision with an opponent, such as a body check in ice hockey.
American Heritage
A stroke of good fortune.
Webster's New World
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adjective
Designating or of a very successful and popular movie, recording, etc.
Webster's New World
pronoun

(dialectal) It.

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abbreviation
Acronym of High-intensity Interval Training.
Wiktionary
Acronym of High-Intensity Training.
Wiktionary
idiom
hit it big
  • To be successful:

    investors who hit it big on the stock market.

American Heritage
hit it off
  • To get along well together.
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hit the books
  • To study, especially with concentrated effort.
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hit the bottle
  • To engage in drinking alcoholic beverages.
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hit the bricks
  • To go on strike.
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Other Word Forms of Hit

Noun

Singular:
hit
Plural:
hits

Origin of Hit

  • From Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hitjaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *k(')eid- (“to fall, fall upon”). Cognate with Icelandic hitta (“to meet”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Latin caedō (“fall”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”).

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English hit (“it”), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *k'e-, *k'ey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Dutch het (“it”). More at it. Note 'it.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English hitten from Old English hyttan from Old Norse hitta

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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