hit for v.
1. (US) to beg, to ask for a loan, to accost.
![]() | Tramping with Tramps 271: You can’t hit a bloke for a dime in the streets without a bull seein’ you and chuckin’ you up for fifty-nine days in Utica jail. | |
![]() | Road 28: I uttered the barbaric phrase, ‘two-bits.’ You see, I was trying delicately to hit them for a ‘light piece.’ [Ibid.] 124: I ‘hit’ some firemen I found in the round-house. They fixed me up with the leavings from their lunch-pails. | |
![]() | Lincoln Daily News 23 Jan. in DN IV:ii 121: Vag Gets Pinched when He Hits Cap for Square Meal [Headline]. | |
![]() | Babbitt (1974) 67: How to hit a bank for a loan. | |
![]() | Jack-Roller 94: I ‘hit’ him for a cigarette. | |
![]() | McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (2001) 121: He slips me a sawbuck every time I hit him for dues. | |
![]() | Teen-Age Gangs 171: I got to hit my old lady or my sister for some dough. | |
![]() | Crust on its Uppers 72: Ginny-the-bird comes in to squawk over how much she hit Bathwarpe for. | |
![]() | Howard Street 29: His little brother would be sure to hit him for a ‘loan’. | |
![]() | Carlito’s Way 60: He would drop in on him and hit him for five hundred or so. | |
![]() | Skin Tight 226: How much are we hitting him for? | |
![]() | Trainspotting 35: All she had been waiting for was an opportune moment to hit her mother for cash. [Ibid.] 73: He pure resents being hit for info [...] about claim procedures. | |
![]() | Stormy Weather 139: Your crew of gypsy fakers hit my wife for seven grand. | |
![]() | Indep. Rev. 13 Jan. 1: I thought, here we go, they’re going to hit me for quarter of a million or something. | |
![]() | Zero at the Bone [ebook] Swann had hit Dickson for a job as soon as he’d resigned his commission. |
2. (US) to travel towards, to leave for.
![]() | DN III:v 320: hit, v. [...] 2. To go, travel. ‘I must hit it for home.’. | ‘Word-List From East Alabama’ in|
![]() | Boy’s Own Paper XL:3 148: Tomorrow we’ll hit for Ten Bow. | |
![]() | Seventh Man 176: He’ll hit for the tall pines. | |
![]() | Sister of the Road (1975) 40: They were hitting for a town where the one in the trousers had an aunt. | |
![]() | High Sierra in Four Novels (1984) 320: You could hit for the High Sierras if things got hot. | |
![]() | Tomboy (1952) 168: I’d like to hit for the pool but I feel too lazy. | |
![]() | Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1959) 152: How about hittin’ for New York State? | |
![]() | Widow Barony 34: ‘Let’s get the hell out of here, grab us a jeep, and hit for San Tomás City’. |
3. to purchase, esp. drugs.
![]() | Junkie (1966) 22: Roy sent me to see a doctor [...] to hit him for a morphine prescription. | |
![]() | Dopefiend (1991) 156: Just so you can hit for some stuff. |
4. to cost.
![]() | Tuff 218: How much them things hit you for anyway? |