Definition of megahit
: something (such as a motion picture) that is extremely successful
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Examples of megahit in a Sentence
His latest movie was a megahit.
the band's latest album is a megahit
Recent Examples of megahit from the Web
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The Disney megahit, which has surpassed $1 billion at the global box office, features a black king of a highly-advanced African kingdom.
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But rarely has a character had such a strong personal impact on her as Celeste — the mother of two trying to navigate her way through an abusive relationship that Kidman so beautifully portrayed in HBO’s megahit miniseries Big Little Lies.
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Lacoste’s new cologne smells like cloves and pine, and Gabriella Sabatini’s megahit in the 1980s was a disco floral that smelled like being drunk on vacation.
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But rarely has a character had such a strong personal impact on her as Celeste — the mother of two trying to navigate her way through an abusive relationship that Kidman so beautifully portrayed in HBO’s megahit miniseries Big Little Lies.
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Yazbek didn’t grow up dreaming of writing the next Broadway megahit.
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But rarely has a character had such a strong personal impact on her as Celeste — the mother of two trying to navigate her way through an abusive relationship that Kidman so beautifully portrayed in HBO’s megahit miniseries Big Little Lies.
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On Monday, Lena Headey got to celebrate a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress on the HBO megahit Game of Thrones.
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Starlight Theatre Elice argues that the stories, as well as the music, carry the megahit shows.
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First Known Use of megahit
1977
megahit Synonyms
Synonyms
blockbuster, hit, smash, success, winner;
Antonyms
bomb, bummer, bust, catastrophe, clinker, debacle (also débâcle), dud, failure, fiasco, flop, misfire, turkey, washout;
Near Antonyms
Related Words
crackerjack (also crackajack), dandy, jim-dandy, pip, prizewinner;
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