HITS

"HITS" is a plural of: hit.

Date "HITS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Computing

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

Crosswords: HITS

There's final hits and final hits (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

You owe me a copy of the Beach Boy's greatest hits. (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson)

Two hits, me hitting you, you hitting the floor (The Breakfast Club; writing credit: John Hughes.)

He hits you (Kalifornia; writing credit: Tim Metcalfe. Starring Brad Pitt as Early Grayce, Juliette Lewis as Adele Corners, David Duchovny as Brian Kessler, and Michelle Forbes as Carrie Laughlin.)

I call mine Dr. Chomsky, y'know, he hits me with a ruler (Manhattan; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

The track hits ya eardrum, like a slug to ya chest (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC)

Bert Kaempfert's got the mad hits (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

So when that tingle hits you deep (That's The Way Love Is; performing artist: Bobby Darin)

Rooster hits the washboard and people just got to smile, (DOWN ON THE CORNER; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Hits you in a minute, Ooo (I've Been In Love Before; performing artist: Cutting Crew)

Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed. (references; author: unknown)

A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense. (references; author: unknown)

The truth is like ice water: It shocks you when it hits you, but no one's ever died from it. (references; author: unknown)

ZZ Top: Greatest Hits (1992)

Hits a Poppin' (1968)

Whispering Smith Hits London (1951)

Blondie Hits the Jackpot (1949)

Six Hits and a Miss (1945)

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

Books

• Sherman's Lagoon 1991 to 2001: Greatest Hits and Near Misses (reference)

• The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (reference)

• Dave Barry's Greatest Hits (reference)

• Sport Accolade Greatest Hits 2 C/Dos/Ww (reference)

• Greatest Hits, Level 1 (Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Hits (reference)

• Smash Hits (reference)

• Smash Hits Yearbook (reference)

• Tv Hits (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• ABBA Gold - Greatest Hits (reference)

• Alabama - For the Record: 41 Number One Hits Live (reference)

• Alarm: Greatest Hits Live (reference)

• Neil Diamond: Greatest Hits Live (reference)

• Tamilee Webb: Fit to the Hits - Rock Hard Assets (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Hits Los Tri-O (reference)

• Bermuda Girls: The Original Hits & Lots More Fun (reference)

• Loud Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits (reference)

• Sea of Love: Louisiana Bayou Hits 1950-60's (reference)

• Lovable & Sweet: 25 Vintage Hits (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Croc: Greatest Hits (reference)

• Greatest Arcade Hits (reference)

• Metal Gear Solid Greatest Hits (reference)

• Humongous Greatest Hits Bundle (reference)

• Intellivision Greatest Hits JC (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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

Hurricane Georges hits Hispaniola Island (Haiti and Dominican Republic)in the West Indies on September 22, 1998. Credit: NASA.

Splash as humpback - Megaptera novaeangliae - hits the water after breaching. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

Sounding machine devised by Robert Hooke Drop glass ball with weight over side Ball disengages when weight hits bottom Known rate of descent and ascent - can then derive depth Never worked right. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

View looking down "Battleship Row" from Ford Island Naval Air Station, shortly after the Japanese torpedo plane attack. USS California (BB-44) is at left, listing to port after receiving two torpedo hits. In the center are USS Maryland (BB-46) with the capsized USS Oklahoma (BB-37) alongside. USS Neosho (AO-23) is at right, backing clear of the area. Most smoke is from USS Arizona (BB-39). Credit: NAVY.

Photographed from the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen on 24 May 1941, following the Battle of the Denmark Strait and before the two German ships separated. Bismarck is somewhat down by the bow, the result of hits received in her engagement with HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Hood earlier in the day. This is the next to last photograph of Bismarck taken by the Germans. Credit: NAVY.

F.D.R. hits capitalist with a mallet. Credit: Library of Congress.

Capitalists' briefcase hits farmer ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Harvard enrollment hits new high, Cambridge, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress.

Two North American B-25's churn the water with hits and near misses on a Japanese frigate in the March 29, 1945 attack which cost the Japs nine ships, South China Sea. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sea jeeps. This amphibian car hits the water with a splash during a try-out at the Ford Motor Company's Rouge plant. All of the cars are water-tested in this slip before they are turned over to the government for use on various war fronts. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

A closed head injury occurs when the head suddenly and violently hits an object, but the object does not break through the skull. (references)

Business

This figure will probably decrease by 20% to some 1,700 cubic meters by 2030 as the population hits an estimated 1.6 billion, according to Mr. Wang Shucheng, Minister of Water Resources. (references)

Economic History

Guinea

International financial experts in Conakry note that the new code hits medium to large expatriate ventures most immediately, and will diminish the margin of benefits originally intended to compensate investors for Guinea's poor infrastructure and difficult work environment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Ending with "HITS": six-hits, war-hits.

Chinese 

百發百中 (be a crack shot, every shot hits the target, shoot with unfailing accuracy). (various references)

Danish

hits, støj impulser. (various references)

Dutch

lijnstoringen. (various references)

Finnish

hitti. (various references)

French

hits, requêtes, perturbations subites. (various references)

German

trifft (meets). (various references)

Greek 

χτυπάει (strikes). (various references)

Hungarian

tetszik nekem (it hits my fancy), nagy balhé lesz, nagy baj lesz. (various references)

Italian

colpi (knocking, whams). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

直下型地震 (earthquake which hits directly above its epicenter), 無安打 (no hits), 打撃戦 (game with many hits), 命中数 (number of hits). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

めいちゅうすう (number of hits), むあんだ (no hits), ちょっかがたじしん (earthquake which hits directly above its epicenter), だげきせん (game with many hits). (various references)

Pig Latin

itshay.(various references)

Russian 

всплеск (dash, splash). (various references)

Spanish

hit (hit), transitorios. (various references)

Swedish

träffar, intermittent brusstörning. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "HITS": chits, megahits, outhits, superhits, whits. (additional references)

Misspellings

"HITS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Heitz, heths, hets, hetts, hewts, hibs, hics, hids, Hiett, Hiibs, hins, hirs, Hita, hites, hith, hiti, hito, hitsel, Hitt, hitta, hitti, hitu, hity, Hitz, hiys, hizt, hots, Hti, hts, htx, hutsp, Hutz, hvit, Hwita, hyst, hyte, phist. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hist, sith, this.

-1 letter: his, hit, its, sit, tis.

-2 letters: hi, is, it, sh, si, ti.

+1 letter: chits, heist, hilts, hints, hists, hoist, kiths, piths, saith, shift, shirt, shist, shtik, sight, sixth, smith, stich, swith, thins, whist, whits.

+2 letters: airths, bights, births, chints, dhotis, dhutis, dights, eights, ethics, faiths, fetish, fifths, fights, filths, firths, friths, girths, griths, habits, heists, hiatus, hights, histed, hoists, holist, isthmi, itches, kithes, kitsch, lathis, latish, lichts, lights, lithos, mights, mirths, nights, ninths, rights, saithe, schist, schtik, schuit, shanti, shiest, shifts, shifty, shirts, shirty, shists, shrift, shtick, shtiks, sights, sixths, slight, smiths, smithy, snitch, spilth, stichs, stitch, stithy, switch, swithe, tahsil, theins, theirs, theism, theist, thesis, thicks, thighs, thills, things, thinks, thiols, thirds, thirls, thirst, thrips, thyrsi, tights, tilths, tithes, tonish, toyish, tushie, whilst, whisht, whists, whites, widths, wights, withes, yirths.