Word.ws English Dictionary

hitting the buffers

hitting the buffers is the present participle and gerund of hit the buffers.

Meaning of hit the buffers

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To stop suddenly and unexpectedly.
    • The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport

Questions about hitting the buffers

What is hitting the buffers the present participle and gerund of?
Hitting the buffers is the present participle and gerund of hit the buffers.

Words near hitting the buffers in the dictionary

  1. hitting the big time
  2. hitting the board
  3. hitting the books
  4. hitting the bottle
  5. hitting the bricks
  6. hitting the buffers
  7. hitting the button
  8. hitting the ceiling
  9. hitting the deck
  10. hitting the dirt
  11. hitting the fan

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hitting the buffers (page history and authors); hit the buffers (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:

Cite this entry: “hitting the buffers.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hitting_the_buffers. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.