1. to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
2. to come against with an impact or collision, as a missile, a flying fragment, a falling body, or the like: The car hit the tree.
3. to reach with a missile, a weapon, a blow, or the like, as one throwing, shooting, or striking: Did the bullet hit him?
4. to succeed in striking: With his final shot he hit the mark.
5. Baseball.
• to make (a base hit): He hit a single and a home run.
• bat¹ (def. 11).
6. to drive or propel by a stroke: to hit a ball onto the green.
7. to have a marked effect or influence on; affect severely: We were all hit by the change in management.
8. to assail effectively and sharply (often followed by out): The speech hits out at warmongering.
9. to request or demand of: He hit me for a loan.
10. to reach or attain (a specified level or amount): Prices are expected to hit a new low.The new train can hit 100 miles per hour.
11. to be published in or released to; appear in: When will this report hit the papers?What will happen when the story hits the front page?
12. to land on, arrive in, or go to: The troops hit the beach at 0800.When does Harry hit town?I’ve got plans to hit the club with my girls tonight.
13. to give (someone) another playing card, drink, portion, etc.: If the dealer hits me with an ace, I'll win the hand.Bartender, hit me again.
14. to come or light upon; meet with; find: to hit the right answer.
15. to agree with; suit exactly: I'm sure this purple shirt will hit Alfred's fancy.
16. to solve or guess correctly; come upon the right answer or solution: You've hit it!
17. to succeed in representing or producing exactly: to hit a likeness in a portrait.
18. to begin to travel on: Let's hit the road.What time should we hit the trail?
19. to kill; murder.

20. to strike with a missile, a weapon, or the like; deal a blow or blows: The armies hit at dawn.
21. to come into collision (often followed by against, on, or upon): The door hit against the wall.
22. (of an internal-combustion engine) to ignite a mixture of air and fuel as intended: This jalopy is hitting on all cylinders.
23. to come or light (usually followed by upon or on): to hit on a new way.

24. an impact or collision, as of one thing against another.
25. a stroke that reaches an object; blow.
26. a stroke of satire, censure, etc.: a hit at complacency.
27. base hit.
28. Backgammon.
• a game won by a player after the opponent has thrown off one or more men from the board.
• any winning game.
29. a successful stroke, performance, or production; success: The play is a hit.
30. a dose of a narcotic drug.
31. Digital Technology.
• (in information retrieval) an instance of successfully locating an item of data, as in a database or on the internet: When I search for my name, I get lots of hits.
• an instance of accessing a website.
32. a killing, murder, or assassination, especially one carried out by criminal prearrangements.

33. hit off,
• to represent or describe precisely or aptly: In his new book he hits off the American temperament with amazing insight.
• to imitate, especially in order to satirize.
34. to make a sexual advance to: guys who hit on girls at social events.
35. hit out,
• to deal a blow aimlessly: a child hitting out in anger and frustration.
• to make a violent verbal attack: Critics hit out at the administration's new energy policy.
36. hit up, Slang.
• to ask to borrow money from: He hit me up for ten bucks.
• to inject a narcotic drug into a vein.

37. to be congenial or compatible; get along; agree: We hit it off immediately with the new neighbors. My sister and Ellen never really hit it off.
38. without concern for correctness or detail; haphazardly: The paint job had been done hit or miss.
39. to study hard; cram.
40. bottle¹ (def. 8).
41. hit the high spots,
• to go out on the town; go nightclubbing: We'll hit the high spots when you come to town.
• to do something in a quick or casual manner, paying attention to only the most important or obvious facets or items: When I clean the house I hit the high spots and that's about all. This course will hit the high spots of ancient history.

1. to deal (a blow or stroke) to (a person or thing); strike
2. to come into violent contact with
3. to reach or strike with a missile, thrown object, etc
4. to make or cause to make forceful contact; knock or bump
5. to propel or cause to move by striking
6. to score (runs)
7. to affect (a person, place, or thing) suddenly or adversely
8. to become suddenly apparent to (a person)
9. to achieve or reach
10. to experience or encounter
11. to murder (a rival criminal) in fulfilment of an underworld contract or vendetta
12. to accord or suit (esp in the phrase hit one's fancy)
13. to guess correctly or find out by accident
14. to set out on (a road, path, etc)
15. to arrive or appear in
16. to demand or request from
17. to drink an excessive amount of (alcohol)
18. start playing
19. to have sexual intercourse
20. to go to bed
21. to be completely taken by surprise

22. an impact or collision
23. a shot, blow, etc, that reaches its object
24. an apt, witty, or telling remark
25. informal
• a person or thing that gains wide appeal
• (as modifier)
26. a stroke of luck
27. slang
• a murder carried out as the result of an underworld vendetta or rivalry
• (as modifier)
28. a drag on a cigarette, a swig from a bottle, a line of a drug, or an injection of heroin
29. a single visit to a website
30. to make a favourable impression on

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