To hit the pipe, verb. phr. (American).—To smoke opium.
To hit one where he lives, verb. phr. (American).—To touch in a tender part; to hurt the feelings; to touch on the raw (q.v.).
Hit (or struck) with, adv. phr. (colloquial).—Taken; enamoured; prepossessed. Also, hit up with.
1891. Tales from Town Topics. 'Count Candawles,' p. 28. She is very amusing, but the Count cannot be really hit with such a little mountebank.
Hit on the tail, verb. phr. (old venery).—To copulate. For synonyms, see Greens and Ride.
d. 1529. Skelton, Bowge of Courte. How oft he hit Jonet on the tayle.
Hit in the teeth, verb. phr. (old).—To reproach; to taunt; to fling in one's face.
1663. Killigrew, The Parson's Wedding, ii., 6 (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, xiv., 431). They are always hitting me in the teeth with a man of my coat.
Hitch, verb (American).—1. To
marry. Hitched = married.
1867. Browne, Artemus Ward's Courtship, People's ed., p. 23. If you mean getting hitched, I'm in.
1883. L. Oliphant, Altiora Peto, II., xxix., 156. 'How long is it since we parted, Ned?' 'A matter of five years; and it wasn't my fault if we didn't stay hitched till now.'
1892. Tit-Bits, 17 Sept., p. 419, c. 1. 'We've come to get hitched,' said the man, bashfully.
2. (American).—To agree. Also to hitch horses.
To hitch one's team to the fence, verb. phr. (American).—To settle down.
Hittite, subs, (pugilists').—A prize
fighter.
English synonyms.—Basher; bruiser; dukester; fistite; knight of the fist; gemman of the fancy; milling-cove; pug; puncher; scrapper; slasher; slogger; slugger; sparring-bloke.
1823. Bee, Dict. Turf, s.v. Hittites—boxers and ring-goers assembled.
1860. The Druid, Post and Paddock. "The Fight for the Belt.' And the Sherwood Ranger, bold Bendigo, Is on training no more intent; But the trout full well that ex-Hittite know On a Summer's eve in the Trent.
Hive, subs, (venery).—The female
pudendum. Cf. Honey. Hence,
verbally, to hive it = to effect
intromission.
Verb (American cadet).—To steal. For synonyms, see Prig.
To get hived, verb. phr. (American Cadets' and popular).—1. To be caught out in a scrape. Also, to be hidden. To be hived perfectly frigid = to be caught in flagrante delicto.
Hiver, subs. (Western American).—A
travelling bawd.
Hivite, subs. (school).—A student
of St. Bees' (Cumberland).
1865. John Bull, 11 Nov. To be a Hivite has long been considered a little worse than a 'literate'. . . . Of the value of some St. Bees testimonials we may form an estimate, etc., etc.
Hoaky. By the hoaky, intj.
(nautical).—A popular form
of adjuration.
