hit the jackpot
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hit the jackpot
verb hits the jackpot · hitting the jackpot · hit the jackpot
- 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.
- To be accurate or correct.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hit, jackpot.