TO HIT

Definition: HIT

HIT

Noun

1. A successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit".

2. A act of hitting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit".

3. A conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career".

4. An event in which two or more bodies come together.

5. A dose of a narcotic drug.

6. A murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit".

Verb

1. Cause to move by striking; "hit a ball".

2. Hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow".

3. Affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit by really bad weather"; "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager"; "The earthquake struck at midnight".

4. Deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face".

5. Reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made the plane"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts".

6. Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour".

7. Hit with a missile from a weapon.

8. Cause to experience suddenly; "Panic struck me"; "An interesting idea hit her"; "A thought came to me": "The thought struck terror in our minds"; "They were struck with fear".

9. Make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target; "The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1, 1939"; "We must strike the enemy's oil fields"; "in the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5 to 2".

10. : hit the target or goal, as intended.

11. : produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically; "The pianist strikes a middle C"; "strike `z' on the keyboard"; "her comments struck a sour note".

12. : encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant".

13. : gain points; "The home team scored many times".

14. : consume to excess; "hit the bottle".

15. : kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered".

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

Multilingual Slang

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

Crosswords: TO HIT

Some lucky boy's about to hit the honey pot. The winner will receive an evening of my company (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Stop trying to hit me and hit me (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

Hey Phil, if we wanted to hit mailboxes we could let Ralph drive (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

You just want me to hit you (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

I'm going to hit you so hard it will make your ancestors dizzy (Mulan; writing credit: Robert D. San Souci; Rita Hsiao)

You can tell my feet to hit the floor (Achy Breaky Heart; performing artist: Billy Ray Cyrus)

Let me see what to hit for (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat)

About to hit you wit the good law special (Take Your Time; performing artist: HOT)

There's no room for relationship there's just room to hit it (O.P.P.; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

Get a room in Trump Towers just to hit the P hours (E.I.; performing artist: Nelly)

Some people just don't take advice, they have to hit their own head off the wall to believe it will hurt! (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Adobe InDesign f/x and Design: A Straight-Shooting Lesson Plan for Professional Publishers to Hit the Ground Running with Adobe's Hot New Page-Layout Program (reference)

• Power Golf for Women: How to Hit Longer & Straighter from Tee to Green (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Old man booze jumps on Maryland bone dry bill while Daniels prepares to hit him with a five mile zone bat. Credit: Library of Congress.

GOP trying to hit the democrats. Credit: Library of Congress.

Miss Elsie Patterson, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, ready to hit golf ball, Washington, D.C., area(?). Credit: Library of Congress.

Nancy. In an outdoor setting, Nancy tries to hit a bottle with a rock. Credit: Library of Congress.

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And now a light truck approached, and as it came near, the driver saw the turtle and swerved to hit it.

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Business

In the 10th Five-Year Plan Period, according to the information from China Engineering Plastics Industry Association, the total demand for the POM, PC, PA, PET, PBT and plastics alloy by the year 2005 is estimated to hit 590,000 tons, that of ABS 1,600,000 tons, while demand for this year is only 360,000 tons and 1,240,000 tons respectively. (references)

Economic History

Philippines

The government hopes to hit at lest 3.3% GDP growth in 2001 (the low end of its targeted 3.3% -3.8% range), but private forecasts are somewhat lower. (references)

Singapore

The Singapore information technology market is estimated to hit US$3.6 billion in 2001 and is expected to grow to US$4.6 billion by 2003, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). (references)

China

China customs data indicate that both exports and imports of aqua-products increased tremendously in 2000 to hit 4.054 million MT and $5.68 billion, up 52.6% and 28% respectively over 1999. Of the total trade, exports amounted to 1.534 MMT valued at $3.83 billion, climbing 13.8 and 22%; imports increased 92.5% by volume and 42.3% by value reaching 2.52 MMT and $1.85 billion. (references)

Human Rights

Gambia

After presenting his ID card to the soldiers, they accused him of being a rebel who willfully intended to hit the truck. (references)

Political Economy

PERU

The current account deficit is expected to contract in 2001 to about 2.6 percent of GDP. Inflation remains very low by Peru's historical standards and is expected to hit 2.8 percent for the year. (references)

AUSTRIA

The budget consolidation process is hard, however, as the federal deficit had to come down from 2.5 percent of GDP in 1999. Strong economic growth and swift implementation of tax increases and pension reform helped the new government to limit the federal deficit to 1.4 percent of GDP in 2000 and the consolidated public sector deficit to 1.1 percent of GDP. The government intends to further reduce the federal deficit to 1.1 percent in 2001 and to 0.7 percent by 2002, and to balance the consolidated public sector budget by 2002. Reduced economic growth prospects, increased spending on family allowances and halting public service reform, however, make the target more difficult to hit. (references)

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Expressions using "TO HIT": To hit off ♦ To hit on ♦ To hit out ♦ To hit the nail on the head ♦ to hit the sack ♦ to hit upon. Additional references.

Arabic 

صاب (be right), اصطدم (strike). (various references)

Chinese 

錄 (firmament, heaven, to copy, to record), �"�"� (to attack, to strike), 敲 (extort, knock, to knock, to strike), 揕 (to thrust), 拍 (to beat, to clap, to pat, to slap, to take), �"� (according to, act in accordance with, seize, to break, to strike), �'��"� (to ram, to strike), �'� (to bump against, to bump into, to meet by accident, to run into, to strike). (various references)

Danish

tilskære (to cut), cut (to cut). (various references)

Dutch

versnijden (blending, cutting, cutting up, shearing, to cut). (various references)

French

pécou (to cut), couper (to arrest, to cut). (various references)

German

verschneiden (blend, castrate, clip, cut, cut badly, cut wrongly, geld), verpimpeln (to cut), cut (morning coat, morning dress, morning suit). (various references)

Greek 

κόβω (carve, chop, clip, cut, cut down, cut out, fell, nip, pluck, sever, shear, slacken). (various references)

Hungarian

talál (find, to fault, to hit home, to hit the mark, to pick up, to strike home), sújt (afflict, hit, smitten, smote, to descend upon sy, to smite), rátalál (find, hit, to make a lucky hit), ráakad (hit, to chance upon, to come upon), odaér (get to, hit, reach, to get there, to run on to), nekiütődik (hit, to barge against, to buffet, to bump against, to jar, to knock into), megüt (bash, beat, hit, rap, slap, slosh, to beat, to bop, to clout, to rap, to slap, to spike, to wham), lök (hit, shove, thrust, to gag, to jog, to knock, to poke, to shove, to thrust, to toss, toss), eltalál (hit, pinpoint), elüt (hit, run over, to contrast, to jar, to toll), ér (artery, brook, brooklet, course, rill, stream, streamlet, string, that's all lath and plaster, to come in from the cold, to come to a head, to gather to a head, vein, vena). (various references)

Indonesian

sekenanya (at random, whatever happens to hit), getokan (stick to hit with). (various references)

Irish

bualadh (hitting). (various references)

Italian

tagliare (blend, carve, chop, clip, cross, cut, cut across, cut down, cut off, fell, get cut, hack, hew, knife, mow, reap, short cut, slice, snip, trim). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"つ (to strike), �"てる (to apply a patch). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なぐる (to strike), うがつ (to be true to, to bore, to drill, to pierce, to put on, to wear), うつ (to attack, to avenge, to defeat, to destroy, to punish, to strike), うちやぶる (crush, defeat), ぶつ (be not, buddha, Buddhism, do not, must not, to strike), いきあたる (to come against, to deadlock, to light on, to run into, to strike into), あてる (to address, to apply a patch, to assign, to set aside), ゆきあたる (to come against, to deadlock, to light on, to run into, to strike into). (various references)

Maya

hadz. (various references)

Pig Latin

otay ithay.(various references)

Portuguese

cortar (bite, chaff, chip, chop, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut down, delete, detruncate, fell, gash, gouge, hack, hackle, hand back, hew, hew down, incise, indent, interrupt, intersect, let by, log, lop, lumber, mow, poll, pollard, sever, shave, slice, slit, strike off, strike out, whittle), adulterar (adulterate, bast, betray, commit adultery, dash, debase, dilute, doctor, dope, drug, falsify, fill, garble, load, misinterpret, sophisticate, spoil, tamper, weaken). (various references)

Sepedi

betha. (various references)

Spanish

trabajar (act, fetter, job, labor, labour, play, toil, work), cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, clip, comminute, crop, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut up, decapitate, detruncate, disbranch, excise, exscind, fell, hack, incise, intersect, joint, lop, lop away, lop off, lumber, mow, Nick, nip, open, pare, pick, pluck, prune, sever, shear, shear off, shear through, shut off, slice, slit, snick, strike off, tear off, trim away, trim off, turn off, turn out, Whittle). (various references)

pello pepulli pulsum. (various references)

fraper, touchier. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: thio, toit.

-2 letters: hit, hot, tho, tot.

-3 letters: hi, ho, it, oh, ti, to.

+1 letter: outhit.

+2 letters: gothite, hotting, hottish, otolith, outhits, sottish, thorite, timothy, tonight, without.

+3 letters: athetoid, fortieth, goethite, gothites, hitherto, hootiest, mitsvoth, mitzvoth, monteith, mothiest, oiltight, orthotic, otoliths, outbitch, outfight, outpitch, outright, outsight, outthink, pitchout, poortith, shotting, stoutish, theorist, thionate, thiotepa, thorites, tithonia, tonights, toothier, toothily, toothing, trothing, whiteout, withouts.

+4 letters: anorthite, authority, batholith, birthroot, birthwort, botchiest, couthiest, cystolith, forthwith, fortieths, fortnight, frothiest, ghettoing, ghettoize, ghostiest, goethites, heliostat, heterotic, hortative, hostility, hypnotist, lithotomy, methodist, monteiths, mouthiest, nightspot, nontheist, orthotics, orthotist, otolithic, outfights, outsights, outthinks, pitchouts, poortiths, prothetic, rightmost, shortlist, sottishly, spotlight, statolith, stoplight, tallitoth, theoretic, theorists, thereinto, thionates, thiotepas, thitherto, tholeiite, thorniest, throatier, throatily, throating, thyristor, tightrope, timothies, tithonias, toothiest, toothlike, toothpick, topflight, topstitch, torchiest, touchiest, triathlon, tutorship, whiteouts, withstood, worthiest.