'To hit on' definitions:
Definition of 'To hit on'
From: GCIDE
- Hit \Hit\, v. i.
- 1. To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on. [1913 Webster]
- If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another? --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them. --Woodward. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck. [1913 Webster]
- And oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- And millions miss for one that hits. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- To hit on or To hit upon, to light upon; to come to by chance; to discover unexpectedly; as, he hit on the solution after days of trying. "None of them hit upon the art." --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'To hit on'
- Hit,
- Hitting,
- To hit off,
- To hit out,
- hit it,
- hit it off,
- hit it up,
- hit on,
- hit up,
- Base hit,
- Sacrifice hit,
- Safe hit,
- Scratch hit,
- To hit the sack,
- To hit upon,
- fair hit,
- hit home,
- hit list,
- hit man,
- hit or miss,
- hit parade,
- hit squad,
- hit the books,
- hit the ceiling,
- hit the deck,
- hit the dirt,
- hit the hay,
- hit the jackpot,
- hit the road,
- hit the roof,
- hit the sack,
- hit the skids,
- hit upon,
- hitting average,
- no-hit,
- pinch hit,
- smash hit,
- take a hit,
- To hit the nail on the head,
- hard-hitting,
- hit the high spots,
- hit the nail on the head,
- hit-and-run,
- hit-or-miss,
- no-hit game,
- switch-hit,
- three-base hit,
- two-base hit