HIT IT BIG Definition & Meaning

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hit it big

Score a major success, especially a profit, as in Some investors hit it big in the stock market. The adverb big here means “with great success.” [Slang; late 1800s]

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Meme coin investors include everyone from bitcoin millionaires to people grasping at the chance to hit it big, industry insiders say.

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Around 1908, other miners hit it big in northwestern San Bernardino County — in tungsten.

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Memecoin investors include bitcoin millionaires and people grasping at the chance to hit it big.

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“Being from a working-class family from Bell, I always thought, ‘One day, we are going to hit it big and maybe move to Downey.’”

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Just ask Oscar winner Russell Crowe, whose band, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, has yet to hit it big.

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