hit

Meanings

Verb

• To strike.
• To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
• To switch on.
• To briefly visit.
• To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• To attain, to achieve.
• To affect negatively.
• To attack.
• To make a play.
• To use; to connect to.
• To have sex with.
• To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.

Noun

• 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.
• A collision of a projectile with the target.
• A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
• 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.
• The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
• A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
• A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

Adjective

• Very successful.

Pronoun

• it.

Related

Similar words

• smoke up, toke

Opposite words

• miss
• flop, turkey

Origin

• From Middle English hitten, from Old English hittan ("to meet with, come upon, fall in with"), from Old Norse hitta ("to strike, meet"), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną ("to come upon, find"), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-.
• Cognate with Icelandic hitta ("to meet"), Danish hitte ("to find"), Latin caedō ("to kill"), Albanian qit ("to hit, throw, pull out, release").
• From Middle English hit ("it"), from Old English hit ("it"), from Proto-Germanic *hit ("this, this one"), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey-. Cognate with Dutch het ("it"). More at it. Note 'it.