hitting the rack

Verb

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

1. To go to bed.
   • By the time I had unpacked my sea bag, made my rack, and finished a good long hot shower, it was late in the evening. I decided to make it a day and hit the rack.2010, Herb Brewer, Chronicles of a Marine Rifleman: Vietnam, 1965-1966, →ISBN, page 171
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hit, rack.
   • I said, “Holy old Fuck,” when the cue ball hit the rack dead on, bounced straight back, and stopped dead in the middle of the table.2015, Tom Green, The Blue Hand:, →ISBN, page 71