hit the jackpot

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hit the jackpot

verb hits the jackpot · hitting the jackpot · hit the jackpot

  1. idiomatic To receive a more favorable outcome than imagined, especially by good luck. Before 1914, coal was a true cash-cow, and on paper, the GWR looked to have hit the jackpot by being handed all the railways in the South Wales coal fields.
  2. idiomatic To be accurate or correct.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hit, jackpot.

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