Definitions for hit

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IPA: /hɪt/

Hit is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in hit (hit).

Definitions for hit

noun

1. an impact or collision, as of one thing against another.
2. a stroke that reaches an object; blow.
3. a stroke of satire, censure, etc.:
4. Baseball. base hit.
5. Backgammon. a game won by a player after the opponent has thrown off one or more men from the board. any winning game.
6. a successful stroke, performance, or production; success:
7. Slang. a dose of a narcotic drug.
8. Digital Technology. (in information retrieval) an instance of successfully locating an item of data, as in a database or on the Internet: an instance of accessing a website.
9. Slang. a killing, murder, or assassination, especially one carried out by criminal prearrangements.

Idioms

1. hit it off, Informal. to be congenial or compatible; get along; agree:
2. hit or miss, without concern for correctness or detail; haphazardly:
3. hit the books, Slang. to study hard; cram.
4. hit the bottle, Slang. bottle1 (def 8).
5. hit the high spots, to go out on the town; go nightclubbing: to do something in a quick or casual manner, paying attention to only the most important or obvious facets or items:

Verb phrases

1. hit off, to represent or describe precisely or aptly: to imitate, especially in order to satirize.
2. hit on, Slang. to make persistent sexual advances to:
3. hit out, to deal a blow aimlessly: to make a violent verbal attack:
4. hit up, Slang. to ask to borrow money from: to inject a narcotic drug into a vein.

verb (used with object)

1. to deal a blow or stroke to:
2. to come against with an impact or collision, as a missile, a flying fragment, a falling body, or the like:
3. to reach with a missile, a weapon, a blow, or the like, as one throwing, shooting, or striking:
4. to succeed in striking:
5. Baseball. to make (a base hit): bat1 (def 12).
6. to drive or propel by a stroke:
7. to have a marked effect or influence on; affect severely:
8. to assail effectively and sharply (often followed by out):
9. to request or demand of:
10. to reach or attain (a specified level or amount):
11. to be published in or released to; appear in:
12. to land on or arrive in:
13. to give (someone) another playing card, drink, portion, etc.:
14. to come or light upon; meet with; find:
15. to agree with; suit exactly:
16. to solve or guess correctly; come upon the right answer or solution:
17. to succeed in representing or producing exactly:
18. Informal. to begin to travel on:

verb (used without object)

1. to strike with a missile, a weapon, or the like; deal a blow or blows:
2. to come into collision (often followed by against, on, or upon):
3. Slang. to kill; murder.
4. (of an internal-combustion engine) to ignite a mixture of air and fuel as intended:
5. to come or light (usually followed by upon or on):

Origin of hit

before 1100; 1865-70, Americanism for def 5a; Middle English hitten, Old English hittan; perhaps Scandinavian; compare Old Norse hitta to come upon (by chance), meet with

Examples for hit

One day she hit the shell in the wrong place--and they're still looking for the monkey.

The big slug happened to hit the suspect in the street, passing through his arm and then striking Police Officer Andrew Dossi.

We hit it off amazingly well, and started a real friendship.

Often, during a thunderstorm a tree had been hit by lightning.

Instead of going for the hole, I hit the ball directly into the water.

But I kept looking and after awhile I was able to sit up and ask what hit me.

They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.

As He knows so well where to hit us we must stifle our moans when He does so.

I was friends with her drummer from Sleater-Kinney, and I met Carrie, and we just hit it off.

I think even now that I might hit any large and goodly mark with a bow like this.