How to pronounce “hit”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (heading, physical) To strike.
• (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
• (transitive, colloquial) To switch on or switch off (lights).
• (transitive, music, informal) To commence playing.
• (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• (transitive) To affect negatively.
• (figuratively) To attack.
• (heading, games) To make a play.
• (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
• (transitive, bodybuilding) To work out.
• [Noun]
• A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
• Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
• (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
• An attack on a location, person or people.
• A collision of a projectile with the target.
• (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
• (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
• (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
• (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• [Adjective]
• Very successful.

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