n.
Function: noun
Date: 15th century
1 : an act or instance of hitting or being hit <more hit s than misses>
2 a : a stroke of luck b : a great success
3 : a telling or critical remark
4 : BASE HIT
5 : a quantity of a drug ingested at one time
6 : a premeditated murder committed especially by a member of a crime syndicate
7 : an instance of connecting to a particular Web site <a million hit s per day>
8 : a successful match in a search (as of a computer database or the Internet)
– hit · less \ ' hit-l ə s \ adjective