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Although oddly ignored by many dictionaries, hit can be an adjective, in at least two uses:

- to mean struck (a hit batter in Baseball)

- to mean popularly successful (a hit movie, a hit recording)

The latter may simply be referred to as being a hit (noun) when the reference is known.

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