hit on
hit on verb: to flirt with; to approach and speak to (someone), seeking romance, love, sex, etc.
Verb
hit on (third-person singular simple present hits on, present participle hitting on, simple past and past participle hit on)
- To flirt with; to approach and speak to (someone), seeking romance, love, sex, etc.
- That's the third guy that has hit on her tonight.
- Guys are hitting on them almost all the time.
- Synonyms:
- proposition, come on, pass, make a pass
- To discover, pinpoint; to think up; to realize.
- He hit on a great idea for improving the design.
- I think you've just hit right on the solution.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hit, on.
- He was hit on his head so strongly that he stumbled forward and then he was severely hit from several sides.1996, Global Journal on Human Rights Law, page 210
hit on meaning in Malayalam, Malay and Indonesian
hit on in Malayalam
- think of, discover, come up with
- അപ്രതീക്ഷിതമായി കണ്ടുപിടിക്കുക, യാദൃച്ഛികമായി കണ്ടുപിടിക്കുക, കണ്ടുപിടിക്കുക, കണ്ടെത്തുക, കൃത്യമായി ഊഹിക്കുക, സങ്കല്പിക്കുക
hit on in Malay
- to approach somebody seeking love, sex, etc.
- memikat, pikat
hit on in Indonesian
- to approach somebody seeking love, sex, etc.
- mengorat
Examples of hit on in a sentence
- Anne watched as he put an arm around one of the bridesmaids and gave her a decidedly ungrandfatherly squeeze while attempting to look down her dress, then proceeded to hit on the mother of the groom.2015, Sheila Roberts, A Wedding on Primrose Street, MIRA, →ISBN, page 181:
- About a year ago, OpenAI researchers hit on a new way of improving these models.2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time:
Synonyms of hit on
Forms of hit on
| third-person singular present | hits on |
|---|---|
| present participle | hitting on |
| past participle | hit on |
| past | hit on |
Questions about hit on
- What does hit on mean?
- Hit on means to flirt with; to approach and speak to (someone), seeking romance, love, sex, etc.
- What is hit on in Malayalam?
- Hit on in Malayalam is അപ്രതീക്ഷിതമായി കണ്ടുപിടിക്കുക, യാദൃച്ഛികമായി കണ്ടുപിടിക്കുക, കണ്ടുപിടിക്കുക. See Hit on meaning in Malayalam.
- How do you use hit on in a sentence?
- Anne watched as he put an arm around one of the bridesmaids and gave her a decidedly ungrandfatherly squeeze while attempting to look down her dress, then proceeded to hit on the mother of the groom.
- What part of speech is hit on?
- Hit on is a verb.
- What is the past tense of hit on?
- The past tense of hit on is hit on.
Words near hit on in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hit on (page history and authors); hit on (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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.
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