HIT

verb hits · hitting · hit · hat · het

1. physical, transitive To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile. One boy hit the other.
2. physical, transitive To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly. The ball hit the fence.
3. intransitive, physical To strike against something. I can't get anything to hit at that distance.
4. physical, transitive To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it. Hit the Enter key to continue.
5. physical, slang, transitive To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party. Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.
6. physical, transitive To attack, especially amphibiously. If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island.
7. ambitransitive, figuratively, physical To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person. Their coffee really hits the spot.
8. transitive To manage to touch (a target) in the right place. I hit the jackpot.
9. colloquial, transitive To switch on or switch off (lights). Somebody's been here! Hit the lights!
10. informal, transitive To commence playing. - I'd love to hear your band play. - Hit it, boys!
11. colloquial, transitive To briefly visit. We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.
12. informal, transitive To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty. You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend too late.
13. informal, transitive To reach or achieve. The movie hits theaters in December.
14. intransitive 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.
15. To guess; to light upon or discover. Thou hast hit it.
16. transitive To affect negatively. The economy was hit by a recession.  The hurricane hit his fishing business hard.
17. figuratively 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?
18. transitive In blackjack, to deal a card to. Hit me.
19. intransitive To come up to bat. Jones hit for the pitcher.
20. To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
21. transitive To use; to connect to. The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3.
22. US, slang, transitive To have sex with. I'd hit that!
23. US, slang, transitive 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.
24. transitive (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part. This is another great exercise which hits the long head.
25. transitive To work out. With that said, the group hitting their legs just once a week still made gains.

Similar: pelt, thump, do away with, whack, fall upon, lay into, ram, smash, baste, batter, belabor, blow

noun hits

1. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything. So he the fam'd Cilician fencer prais'd, / And, at each hit, with wonder seem'd amaz'd.
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[…]
3. figuratively A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence. His reputation took a hit when the new information came to light.
4. An attack on a location, person or people.
5. A collision of a projectile with the target. But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris,
6. In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
7. Internet A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
8. 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.
9. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
10. 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.
11. colloquial A dose of an illegal or addictive drug. Where am I going to get my next hit?
12. 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.
13. dated A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark. a happy hit
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.

adjective

1. not comparable Very successful. The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.

pronoun hit · hitself · hits

1. dialectal It. But how hit was to come about didn't appear.

noun HITs

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

proper noun Heet

1. A city in Iraq.