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hit paydirt

hit paydirt is the alternative form of hit pay dirt.

Meaning of hit pay dirt

Verb

hit pay dirt (third-person singular simple present hits pay dirt, present participle hitting pay dirt, simple past and past participle hit pay dirt)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To strike it rich; to get lucky or have a big break.
    • With his third novel he finally hit pay dirt and wrote a bestseller.

Forms of hit paydirt

third-person singular presenthits paydirt
present participlehitting paydirt
past participlehit paydirt
pasthit paydirt

Questions about hit paydirt

What is hit paydirt the alternative form of?
Hit paydirt is the alternative form of hit pay dirt.

Words near hit paydirt in the dictionary

  1. hit out of the park
  2. hit parade
  3. hit parades
  4. hit pause
  5. hit pay dirt
  6. hit paydirt
  7. hit piece
  8. hit pieces
  9. hit point
  10. hit points
  11. hit rock bottom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hit paydirt (page history and authors); hit pay dirt (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.

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