hit

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To administer a blow to.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
  3. Verb.  (rfc-def) (transitive) To manage to touch in the right place.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
  5. Verb.  (transitive, cards) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
  6. Verb.  (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
  7. Verb.  (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
  8. Verb.  (transitive, informal) To encounter.
  9. Verb.  (transitive, colloquial) To begin; to start; to open.
  10. Verb.  (transitive, computing) To use.
  11. Verb.  (transitive) To affect negatively.
  12. Verb.  (transitive, figuratively) To have sex with.
  13. Noun.  A blow; a punch.
  14. Noun.  A success, especially in the entertainment industry.
  15. Noun.  An attack on a location, person or people.
  16. Noun.  (computing) (Internet) The result(s) of a search of a computer system or, for example, the entire Internet using a search engine.
  17. Noun.  (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
  18. Noun.  An approximately correct answer in a test set.
  19. Noun.  (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
  20. Noun.  (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
  21. Noun.  A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
  22. Pronoun.  (context, dialectal) (l, en) .

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.