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hit the jackpot

hit the jackpot verb: to receive a more favorable outcome than imagined, especially by good luck.

Verb

hit the jackpot (third-person singular simple present hits the jackpot, present participle hitting the jackpot, simple past and past participle hit the jackpot)

  1. (idiomatic) To receive a more favorable outcome than imagined, especially by good luck.
    • Before 1914, coal was a true cash-cow, and on paper, the GWR looked to have hit the jackpot by being handed all the railways in the South Wales coal fields.2021 August 25, Richard Foster, “The rise and fall of railway's Big Four...”, in RAIL, number 938, page 55
  2. (idiomatic) To be accurate or correct.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hit, jackpot.

hit the jackpot meaning in Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic

hit the jackpot in Malayalam

win a large prize, win a lot of money, strike it lucky
വമ്പിച്ച സമ്മാനം നേടുക, ഏറ്റവും കൂടിയ പന്തയപ്പണം ലഭിക്കുക, ഏറ്റവും ഉയർന്ന സമ്മാനത്തുക ലഭിക്കുക, ഏറ്റവുംകൂടിയസമ്മാനംകിട്ടുക, മുന്തിയസമ്മാനം നേടുക, ഏറ്റവും വലിയ സമ്മാനത്തുക ലഭിക്കുക

hit the jackpot in Kannada

ಅದೃಷ್ಟ ಖುಲಾಯಿಸು, ಲಾಟರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಗೆಲ್ಲು, ಅನಿರೀಕ್ಷಿತವಾಗಿ ಭಾರಿ ಹಣ ದೊರಕು, ಭಾರಿ ಧನವನ್ನು ಗೆದ್ದುಕೊಳ್ಳು, ಬಹು ಅದೃಷ್ಟಶಾಲಿಯಾಗು

hit the jackpot in Arabic

to receive a favorable outcome, by luck
ضَرَبَ الفَوْز بِالْجَائِزَة الكُبِرَى ḍaraba al-fawz bi-l-jāʔiza l-kubrā

Forms of hit the jackpot

third-person singular presenthits the jackpot
present participlehitting the jackpot
past participlehit the jackpot
pasthit the jackpot

Questions about hit the jackpot

What does hit the jackpot mean?
Hit the jackpot means to receive a more favorable outcome than imagined, especially by good luck.
What is hit the jackpot in Malayalam?
Hit the jackpot in Malayalam is വമ്പിച്ച സമ്മാനം നേടുക, ഏറ്റവും കൂടിയ പന്തയപ്പണം ലഭിക്കുക, ഏറ്റവും ഉയർന്ന സമ്മാനത്തുക ലഭിക്കുക. See Hit the jackpot meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is hit the jackpot?
Hit the jackpot is a verb.
What is the past tense of hit the jackpot?
The past tense of hit the jackpot is hit the jackpot.

Words near hit the jackpot in the dictionary

  1. hit the gym
  2. hit the hay
  3. hit the head
  4. hit the headlines
  5. hit the high notes
  6. hit the jackpot
  7. hit the mark
  8. hit the nail on the head
  9. hit the net
  10. hit the pan
  11. hit the pause button

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hit the jackpot (page history and authors); hit the jackpot (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); hit the jackpot (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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