direct

deliver, give sth, land, make, score
Give it a good hit.
At last he managed to score a hit.

receive, suffer, take
One of the tanks took a direct hit.

list
She was at the top of the terrorists' hit list (= list of people they intended to kill).
Which services are on the government's hit list? (figurative)

man, squad
He claimed that a hit man had been paid $20 000 to kill him.

big, greatest, huge, massive, real, runaway, smash
The show has been a smash hit.

surprise
breakout (AmE)
immediate, instant
box-office, chart (esp. BrE), pop (esp. BrE)
She is here to promote her latest chart hit.

album, film (esp. BrE), movie (esp. AmE), record, show, single, song

hit with
The series has been a big hit with children.

hard
She didn't hit me very hard.

repeatedly
directly
He was hit directly in the back.

almost, nearly
A taxi almost hit him as he was crossing the street.

accidentally
I accidentally hit my knee on the desk.

want to
I was so angry, I wanted to hit him.

be going to
I was afraid he was going to hit me.

in
She hit him in the face.

on
I hit my head on the low doorway.

with
He hit her with a stick.

hit sb over the head
He was hit over the head with a broken bottle.

badly, hard, heavily, severely
Our department has been badly hit by the cutbacks.
Some businesses have been hit very hard by the rise in interest rates.

Hit is used with these nouns as the subject:
arrow, ball, batsman, blast, blizzard, bomb, bullet, car, craze, crisis, cyclone, debris, disaster, earthquake, fire, fist, flood, foot, head, hurricane, idea, illness, inspiration, jinx, lightning, magazine, missile, moonlight, mortar, nausea, pain, ray, realization, recession, rocket, shell, ship, shot, smell, stock, storm, sun, thought, tornado, torpedo, train, typhoon, unemployment, wave

Hit is used with these nouns as the object:
accelerator, ball, bar, baseball, bonnet, brake, bump, button, chart, circuit, climax, coast, convoy, cymbal, desk, drive, drum, ear, earth, elbow, fist, floor, forehead, ground, gym, head, headline, high, highway, hood, hurdle, jackpot, kerb, key, lottery, low, lull, mainstream, mall, mark, market, middle age, milestone, mine, morale, news, note, opponent, patch, peak, per cent, pitch, puberty, roadblock, run, sack, shin, shore, shower, showroom, slope, smash, snag, stage, store, stumbling block, surface, switch, target, town, trail, vein, verge, volley