hit it

idiom

informal
used to tell a group of musicians to begin playing
Hit it, boys!

Examples of hit it in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In one instance, Wallace witnessed a crash when a car cut over the divider in front of a semi, which hit it broadside. Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2024 Some of those incidents involve what Horne described as courtesy crashes, when a vehicle is turning onto Ford Road and vehicles in two lanes slow up to allow that vehicle into traffic but vehicles in the third lane fail to stop because the drivers don’t see the turning vehicle and hit it. Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2024 Ultimately, however, experts were skeptical the Key Bridge could have been saved, pointing to the size of the ship that hit it. Dakin Andone, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024 At last year’s Dalkey Book Festival, Hanks hit it out of the park in a standing-room-only church. Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2024 So the president continues to really hit it out of the park – really, really, really strong night. Erika Ryan, NPR, 29 Feb. 2024 Mendes and Gosling hit it off while starring together in 2012's The Place Beyond the Pines. Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024 But boy, having a civilian just walking the streets and getting hit it by something like that, totally unexpected ... Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2024 The two had known each other less than a year but hit it off immediately. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024

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“Hit it.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hit%20it. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.

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