• (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams'' Hit"
• a conspicuous success; "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"
• the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated Hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a Hit"
• a connection made via the internet to another website; "WordNet gets many Hits from users worldwide"
• a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia Hit"
• a dose of a narcotic drug
• (physics) an brief event in which two or more bodies come together; "the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction"
• pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to Hit on women in bars"
• gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He Hit a home run"; "He Hit .300 in the past season"
• make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target; "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
• Hit with a missile from a weapon
• Hit the intended target or goal
• consume to excess; "Hit the bottle"
• affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; "We were Hit by really bad weather"; "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager"; "The earthquake struck at midnight"
• produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically; "The pianist strikes a middle C"; "strike `z'' on the keyboard"; "her comments struck a sour note"
• Hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car Hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow"
• deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He Hit her hard in the face"
• cause to move by striking; "Hit a ball"
• reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The thermometer Hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"
• reach a destination, either real or abstract; "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"
• drive something violently into a location; "he Hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling"
• cause to experience suddenly; "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"
• encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"
• kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"

'Hit' in other languages