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      hit
      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.
      In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
      (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.
      (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.
      A city in Iraq.
      Acronym of high-intensity interval training. [(fitness) A fitness training regimen which generally involves short periods of vigorous exercise followed by short breaks.]
      Acronym of high-intensity training.
      Initialism of health information technology.
      Acronym of human intelligence task
      Abbreviation of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.
      Abbreviation of herd immunity threshold.
      Initialism of hyperspectral imaging technique.
      (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
      verb
      (heading, physical) To strike.
      (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
      (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
      (intransitive) To strike against something.
      (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
      (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
      (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
      (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
      (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, informal) To reach or achieve.
      (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
      To guess; to light upon or discover.
      (transitive) To affect negatively.
      (figuratively) To attack.
      (heading, games) To make a play.
      (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
      (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
      (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
      (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.
      adjective
      Very successful.
      Synonyms for hit
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