'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]