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to hit it up

to hit it up

1 8.9
To meet someone and spend time talking and relaxing
  • phrasal verb
  • /hɪt ɪt ʌp/
  • Slang
: salir
  • Let's hit it up at the park this weekend for a picnic.

Examples

  • Go hit it up (as well as the previously released 'Aimless Arrow') and get excited for how utterly destroyed we're all going to be when this record drops.

    Blog text (20)

  • We should hit it up on Saturday.

    Paranoid Park (2007)

  • We should hit it up on Saturday.

    Paranoid Park (2007)

  • But if you like me on this Facebook that we're going to do, hit it up right.

  • You gotta be awful careful who you hit it up with.

    It Happened One Night (1934)

  • Hit it up, ida!

    Crackerjack (2002)

  • Why don't we hit it up at that new café after work today?

  • Do you want to hit it up with some friends and watch the game later?

Synonyms

to meet up
vsto hit it up
  • Informal
122 1.8

To come together with friends to spend time

is used for casual friendly gatherings rather than formal events
to meet up with
vsto hit it up
  • Informal
81 2.1

To get together with someone by arrangement to spend time

is less about prior arrangement and more about casual socializing
to link-up
vsto hit it up
  • Informal
3.7

To meet another person or group briefly and informally

focuses on spending leisure time rather than quick contacts

Antonyms

to avoid
∞ 1.0

To stay away from something or not do it to stop something bad from happening

to isolate
256 4.2

To keep someone or something apart from others

How Social

to party
  • Informal
298 3.0
to hang out
  • Informal
946 2.4
to hit it up
  • Slang
1 8.9
to get together
  • Informal
644 2.0
to meet
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

hit it up infinitive
hit it up past
hit it up past participle
hitting it up present participle
hits it up third person singular

Morphology

hit + it + up

Although 'hit' can colloquially mean 'go to' or 'visit' (as in 'hit the club') and 'hit X up' is used to mean contact or go to a place, the informal sense 'meet or socialize' is tied to slangy phrasal-verb usage and not a straightforward composition of 'hit' + 'it' + 'up'. The pronoun 'it' and particle 'up' make the sense dependent on idiomatic patterns that a B1 learner who only knows the literal word meanings is unlikely to fully predict without prior exposure.

Etymology

Hit it up may come from a simple image: you hit a place, meaning you go there with energy, and up adds a sense of people coming together or extra energy. So, hit it up means 'to meet or hang out' at a place with friends.