noun
1. (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball)
e.g. he came all the way around on Williams' hit
2. a conspicuous success
e.g. that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career
that new Broadway show is a real smasher
the party went with a bang
Synonym: smashsmasherstrikebang
3. the act of contacting one thing with another
e.g. repeated hitting raised a large bruise
after three misses she finally got a hit
Synonym: hittingstriking
4. a connection made via the internet to another website
e.g. WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide
5. a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
e.g. it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit
6. a dose of a narcotic drug
7. (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
e.g. the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction
Synonym: collision
verb
1. pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
e.g. He tries to hit on women in bars
2. gain points in a game
e.g. The home team scored many times
He hit a home run
He hit .300 in the past season
Synonym: scoretallyrack up
3. make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
e.g. The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1, 1939
We must strike the enemy's oil fields
in the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5 to 2
Synonym: strike
4. hit with a missile from a weapon
Synonym: shootpip
5. hit the intended target or goal
6. consume to excess
e.g. hit the bottle
7. affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
e.g. We were hit by really bad weather
He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager
The earthquake struck at midnight
Synonym: strike
8. produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically
e.g. The pianist strikes a middle C
strike `z' on the keyboard
her comments struck a sour note
Synonym: strike
9. hit against
come into sudden contact with
e.g. The car hit a tree
He struck the table with his elbow
Synonym: strikeimpinge onrun intocollide with
10. deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
e.g. He hit her hard in the face
11. cause to move by striking
e.g. hit a ball
12. reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
e.g. The thermometer hit 100 degrees
This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour
Synonym: reachattain
13. reach a destination, either real or abstract
e.g. We hit Detroit by noon
The water reached the doorstep
We barely made it to the finish line
I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts
Synonym: reachmakeattainarrive atgain
14. drive something violently into a location
e.g. he hit his fist on the table
she struck her head on the low ceiling
Synonym: strike
15. cause to experience suddenly
e.g. Panic struck me
An interesting idea hit her
A thought came to me
The thought struck terror in our minds
They were struck with fear
Synonym: strikecome to
16. encounter by chance
e.g. I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant
Synonym: stumble
17. kill intentionally and with premeditation
e.g. The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered
Synonym: murderslaydispatchbump offoffpolish offremove