1. Cause to move by striking
   "hit a ball" 
2. Hit against; come into sudden contact with
   "The car hit a tree"
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1. (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball)
   "he came all the way around on Williams' hit" 
2. The act of contacting one thing with another
   "after three misses she finally got a hit"
   - hitting, striking 
3. A conspicuous success
   "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"
   - smash, smasher, strike, bang, sizzler 
4. (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
   - collision 
5. A dose of a narcotic drug 
6. A murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
   "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit" 
7. A connection made via the internet to another website
   "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"

Derived forms: hit, hitting, hits

See also: hitter

Type of: advance, affect, approach, arrive, assail, attack, bear on, bear upon, bring home the bacon, come, come by, come into, come through, connection, connexion [Brit], consume, contact, deliver the goods, displace, dosage, dose, effort, execution, exploit, feat, gain, gain ground, get, get ahead, have, impact, impel, impinging, ingest, injure, joining, kill, make headway, move, murder, propel, pull ahead, slaying, striking, succeed, success, take, take in, touch, touch on, touching, win, wound

Antonym: miss

Encyclopedia: Hit Hit, Run and Homicide Hit, Iraq

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