hit

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a successful swing in a baseball game

   The base runner came all the way home on Williams' hit.

2. 2
   noun

   a conspicuous success

   That song was my first hit and marked the beginning of my career as a singer.

3. 3
   noun

   the act of forcefully contacting one thing with another

   repeated hitting raised a large bruise

4. 4
   noun

   a counting term for an internet user viewing a web page

   Yesterday our website got over 500 hits!

5. 5
   noun

   a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate

   it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit

6. 6
   noun

   a dose of an illicit drug

   it's not a good idea to take your first hit of heroin

7. 7
   verb

   to pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to

   They tried to hit on patrons of the bar.

8. 8
   verb

   to strike the intended target or goal

   I hit the goal!

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-der. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂id-néh₂-ti Proto-Germanic *hittijaną Old Norse hittader. Old English hyttan Middle English hitten English hit Inherited from Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian hitte (“to meet”), Dutch hitten (“to hit, encounter”), Danish hitte (“…