hit

verb28

1. •
   to touch someone or something suddenly and with force, using the hand or an object

   • One boy hit the other.
2. •
   To strike.
3. •
   To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.

   • The ball hit the fence.
4. •
   To strike against something.

   • I can't get anything to hit at that distance.
5. •
   To affect negatively.

   • The economy was hit by a recession.
   • The hurricane hit his fishing business hard.
6. •
   (figurative) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.

   • Their coffee really hits the spot.
   • I used to listen to that song all the time, but it hits different(ly) now.
7. •
   To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.

   • I hit the jackpot.
   • You can't hit the high notes in that song!
8. •
   To attain, to achieve.
9. •
   To reach or achieve.

   • The movie hits theaters in December.
   • The temperature could hit 110°F tomorrow.
10. •
    To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.

    • And oft it hits / Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. — 1604
11. •
    To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.

    • You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend too late.
    • We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies.
12. •
    To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.

    • Hit the Enter key to continue.
13. •
    (informal) To switch on or switch off (lights).

    • Somebody's been here! Hit the lights!
14. •
    (informal) To briefly visit.

    • We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.
15. •
    To attack, especially amphibiously.

    • If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island.
16. •
    (figurative) To attack.

    • I have to say this, he hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I’ve never heard of this one. Look at those hands. Are they small hands? — 2016
17. •
    To make a play.
18. •
    To come up to bat.

    • Jones hit for the pitcher.
19. •
    (slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.

    • Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.
20. •
    In blackjack, to deal a card to.

    • Hit me.
21. •
    (informal) To commence playing.

    • - I'd love to hear your band play. - Hit it, boys!
22. •
    (US, slang) To have sex with.

    • I'd hit that!
23. •
    (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.

    • This is another great exercise which hits the long head.
24. •
    To work out.

    • With that said, the group hitting their legs just once a week still made gains.
25. •
    (US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.

    • Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to have bread to get it. — 2005
26. •
    To use; to connect to.

    • The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3.
27. •
    To guess; to light upon or discover.

    • Thou hast hit it. — 1590
28. •
    To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.

noun15

1. •
   A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

   • The hit was very slight.
2. •
   Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.

   • Marie Taglioni was another hit for Her Majesty's Theatre last season, and will be a hit again this season[…] — 1848
3. •
   A collision of a projectile with the target.
4. •
   In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
5. •
   (figurative) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.

   • His reputation took a hit when the new information came to light.
6. •
   An approximately correct answer in a test set.
7. •
   (Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
8. •
   An attack on a location, person or people.
9. •
   A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.

   • The questions that have always haunted the family — who ordered the hit, and why, and who in London might have known — remain unanswered. — 2023
10. •
    (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.

    • My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.
11. •
    The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.

    • The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.
12. •
    (informal) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.

    • Where am I going to get my next hit?
13. •
    (old-fashioned) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.

    • What late he called a blessing, now was wit, / And God's good providence, a lucky hit. — 1733
14. •
    A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
15. •
    A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

adjective1

1. •
   Very successful.

   • The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.

pronoun1

1. •
   (dialect) It.

   • But how hit was to come about didn't appear. — 1922

noun7

1. •
   Acronym of high-intensity interval training.
2. •
   Acronym of human intelligence task
3. •
   Initialism of health information technology.
4. •
   Abbreviation of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.
5. •
   Abbreviation of herd immunity threshold.
6. •
   Acronym of high-intensity training.
7. •
   Initialism of hyperspectral imaging technique.

noun1

1. •
   A city in Iraq.