hat

noun

A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
A hat switch.
The háček symbol.
The caret symbol ^.
User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
(Cambridge University slang) A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).

verb

verb

(heading, physical) To strike.
To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
I hit the jackpot.
To switch on.
Somebody's been here! Hit the lights!
To briefly visit.
We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.
To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend too late. We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies.
(heading) To attain, to achieve.
To affect negatively.
The economy was hit by a recession. The hurricane hit his fishing business hard.
To attack.
(heading, games) To make a play.
To use; to connect to.
The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3.
To have sex with.
I'd hit that.
To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.