Word.ws English Dictionary

hit a stain

hit a stain verb: to commit armed robbery.

Verb

hit a stain (third-person singular simple present hits a stain, present participle hitting a stain or hittin' a stain, simple past and past participle hit a stain)

  1. (African-American Vernacular) To commit armed robbery.
    • Baby girl what's your name? / Let me talk to you and let's go hit a stain2017, Lil Tecca, “Toyota”
    • There's a time that I remember / When my brothers hit a stain2022 May 1, ME3CH, “MAROON .45”

Forms of hit a stain

third-person singular presenthits a stain
present participlehitting a stain
present participlehittin' a stain
past participlehit a stain
pasthit a stain

Origin of hit a stain

Compare hit a lick.

Questions about hit a stain

What does hit a stain mean?
Hit a stain means to commit armed robbery.
What part of speech is hit a stain?
Hit a stain is a verb.
What is the past tense of hit a stain?
The past tense of hit a stain is hit a stain.

Words near hit a stain in the dictionary

  1. hit a lick
  2. hit a nerve
  3. hit a raw nerve
  4. hit a six
  5. hit a snag
  6. hit a stain
  7. hit a wall
  8. hit above one's weight
  9. hit and giggle
  10. hit and hope
  11. hit and ran

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hit a stain (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-hit a stain.wav.

Cite this entry: “hit a stain.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hit_a_stain. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.