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Hit The Hay

Definition: Hit The Hay

Hit The Hay

Verb

1. Go to bed in order to sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He turns out at the crack of dawn".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Hit The Hay

Synonyms: crawl in (v), get into bed (v), go to bed (v), go to sleep (v), hit the sack (v), kip down (v), retire (v), sack out (v), turn in (v). (additional references)
Antonym: get up (v). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Hit The Hay

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Hit the Hay (1945)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hit The Hay

Language Translations for "hit the hay"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shkoj të fle, bie në shtrat. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ذهب للنوم (turn in), ‏إستراح (breathe, ensconce oneself, lighten, recuperate, refresh, repose, rest, set at rest, stand at ease, subside). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

лягам си (bunk, flop, kip, kip down, lie down, retire, roll in, sack out, shake down, turn in). (various references)

   

Czech

  

jít na kutì. (various references)

   

French

  

se relâcher, aller dormir. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χτηπώ το σανό. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ללכת לישון (fall asleep, go off, go to sleep, turn in). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

lefekszik aludni (to hit the hay, to kip, to kip down, to turn in). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ithay ethay ayhay

   

Russian 

  

отправиться на боковую. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ići u krpe, ići na spavanje (doss, go to bed, go to sleep, retire, turn in). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

irse a dormir (go to sleep), ir a dormir (go to sleep). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

krypa till kojs (hit the sack). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yatmak (bang, be couched, couch, go to bed, go to sleep, have a screw, hit the sack, incline, kip, kip down, lay, lay oneself down, lie, lie down, lie up, recline, repose, repose oneself, rest, sleep with, turn in), yatağa girmek (roll in). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Hit The Hay

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-h-h-i-t-t-y"

-3 letters: heathy.

-4 letters: heath, theta, tithe, tythe.

-5 letters: eath, haet, hate, hath, heat, heth, hyte, tate, teat, teth, thae, that, they, yeah, yeti, yett.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hit The Hay


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 69 74      54 68 65      48 61 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01001000 01100001 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#105 &#116 &#32 &#84 &#104 &#101 &#32 &#72 &#97 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0069 0074      0054 0068 0065      0048 0061 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42758625474712426791

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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