Definition of Hit

Verb: hit (hit,hitting) hit

Cause to move by striking
"hit a ball"
Come into sudden contact with
"The car hit a tree";
- strike, impinge on, run into, collide with, impact
Deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
"He hit her hard in the face"
Be at the destination after some time, either real or abstract; come to a given position
"We hit Detroit by noon"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts";
- reach, make, attain, arrive at, gain
Affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
"We were hit by really bad weather";
- strike
Strike with a missile from a weapon
- shoot, pip
Encounter by chance
"I hit across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant";
- stumble
Gain points in a game
"He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season";
- score, tally, rack up
Cause to experience suddenly
"An interesting idea hit her";
- strike, come to
Make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
"The Germans hit Poland on Sept. 1, 1939";
- strike
Kill intentionally and with premeditation
"The mafia boss ordered his enemies hit";
- murder, slay, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
Drive something violently into a location
"he hit his fist on the table";
- strike
Get to a certain state, level, or point in time
"The thermometer hit 100 degrees";
- reach, attain
Produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically
"The pianist hits a middle C";
- strike
Consume to excess
"hit the bottle"
Strike the intended target or goal
Pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
"He tries to hit on women in bars"

Noun: hit hit

(baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball)
"he came all the way around on Williams' hit"
The act of contacting one thing with another
"after three misses she finally got a hit";
- hitting, striking
A conspicuous success
"that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career";
- smash, smasher, strike, bang, sizzler
(physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
"the hit of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction";
- collision
A dose of a narcotic drug
A murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
"it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"
A connection made via the internet to another website
"WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"