Meaning of hit | Babel Free

Definitions

1. success
2. A city in Iraq.
3. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
4. Acronym of high-intensity interval training.
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5. hit (something popular or well received)
6. To pay unsolicited romantic attention to: can't go into a bar lately without being hit on.
7. Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
8. Acronym of high-intensity training.
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9. To approach and ask (someone) for something, especially for money: tried to hit me up for a loan.
10. A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
    figuratively
11. Initialism of health information technology.
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12. To be successful: investors who hit it big on the stock market.
13. An attack on a location, person or people.
14. Initialism of hyperspectral imaging technique.
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15. To get along well together.
16. A collision of a projectile with the target.
17. Acronym of human intelligence task
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18. Abbreviation of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.
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19. To study, especially with concentrated effort.
20. In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
21. Abbreviation of herd immunity threshold.
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22. To engage in drinking alcoholic beverages.
23. A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
    Internet
24. A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
    Internet
25. To go on strike.
26. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
27. To have serious, usually adverse consequences.
28. The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
29. To begin a venture with great energy, involvement, and competence.
30. A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
    colloquial
31. To go to bed: hit the hay well before midnight.
32. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
33. A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
    dated
34. A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
35. A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

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Examples

“So he the fam'd Cilician fencer prais'd, / And, at each hit, with wonder seem'd amaz'd.”

“The hit was very slight.”

“Marie Taglioni was another hit for Her Majesty's Theatre last season, and will be a hit again this season[…]”

“Chico & Rita opens in the modern era, as an aged, weary Chico shines shoes in his native Cuba. Then a song heard on the radio—a hit he wrote and recorded with Rita in their youth—carries him back to 1948 Havana, where they first met.”

“His reputation took a hit when the new information came to light.”

“But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.”

“My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.”

“The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.”

“Where am I going to get my next hit?”

“The questions that have always haunted the family — who ordered the hit, and why, and who in London might have known — remain unanswered.”

“a happy hit”

“What late he called a blessing, now was wit, / And God's good providence, a lucky hit.”

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