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Hit and run

A hit-and-run, or leaving the scene of an accident, is a traffic crash in which a driver flees without offering information or aid, a criminal offense that delays victims' medical care.

Hit and Run (2012 film)

Hit and Run is a 2012 American action comedy film directed by and starring Dax Shepard, with Kristen Bell and Bradley Cooper, about a witness protection getaway driver.

Hīt District

Hīt District (قضاء هيت) is a district of Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq, on the Euphrates, capital Hit city; 188,370 people in the 2024 census, known for date palms, dibbis, and ancient bitumen springs.

HIT Entertainment

HIT Entertainment (Henson International Television), British children's TV producer founded by Peter Orton in 1989, owner of Thomas & Friends, Barney, Bob the Builder; acquired by Apax in 2005 for £489.4m and Mattel in 2012 for $680m.

Hit Harivansh

Hit Harivansh (हित हरिवंश) was a 16th-century Braj devotional poet (1502–1552) who founded the Radhavallabh sampradaya in Vrindavan, a Vaishnava sect worshiping Radha, and wrote the Hit Chaurasi.

Hit List (2024 film)

Hit List (ஹிட் லிஸ்ட்) is a 2024 Tamil action thriller directed by Sooryakathir Kaakkallar and K Karthikeyan, produced by K.S. Ravikumar's RK Celluloids, starring debutant Vijay Kanishka and R. Sarathkumar; released 31 May 2024, about a masked kidnapper forcing a nonviolent man to kill.

Hit Man (2023 film)

Hit Man (2023) is a Richard Linklater romantic comedy-thriller co-written with and starring Glen Powell, loosely based on Skip Hollandsworth's 2001 Texas Monthly article about fake hit man Gary Johnson; it premiered at Venice 2023, sold to Netflix for $20 million, and scored 82 on Metacritic.

Hit Me Hard and Soft

Hit Me Hard and Soft is Billie Eilish's third studio album, also abbreviated as HIT ME HARD AND SOFT or HMHAS. Released May 17, 2024 on Darkroom/Interscope with no advance singles, produced solely with brother Finneas, it earned Metacritic 89 and 2025 Album of the Year nomination.

Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour

Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour is Billie Eilish's headlining concert tour supporting her third album. It ran from September 2024 to November 2025 across 106 sold-out shows.

Hit n Run Phase Two

Hit n Run Phase Two is Prince's final studio album released in his lifetime, issued on Tidal December 12, 2015, with 12 funk and soul tracks including "Baltimore," peaking at number 3 on the Top R&B Albums chart in May 2016.

Hit Point (TV series)

Hit Point is a 2026 British six-part crime drama, U&Dave's first original scripted series, written by Howard Overman, directed by David Caffrey, starring Nick Blood and Saffron Hocking as detectives in London's underworld.

Hit the Deck

Hit the Deck is MGM's 1955 CinemaScope musical comedy directed by Roy Rowland, starring Jane Powell, Tony Martin, and Debbie Reynolds as sailors and their sweethearts, adapted from Vincent Youmans' 1927 Broadway hit and Hubert Osborne's play Shore Leave.

Hit the Floor (TV series)

Hit the Floor: American sports drama created by James LaRosa, 2013–2018, about the LA Devil Girls dance team and LA Devils; three seasons on VH1, one on BET, canceled after 41 episodes.

Hit the Road Jack

Hit the Road Jack: Percy Mayfield's 1960 a cappella R&B song made famous by Ray Charles with the Raelettes; #1 Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in 1961 and 1962 Grammy winner for Best R&B Recording.

Hit the Top (최고의 한방)

Hit the Top (최고의 한방, The Best Hit) is a 2017 KBS2 time-travel comedy drama, 32 episodes, June 2–July 22, 2017, starring Yoon Si-Yoon, Lee Se-Young, Kim Min-Jae, and Cha Tae-Hyun, about a 1993 idol presumed dead who lands in 2017.

Hit the Wall

"Hit the Wall" (2026) is a synth-pop song by Gracie Abrams, lead single of Daughter from Hell, co-written with Aaron Dessner, peaking at No. 26 on the Hot 100; distinct from Brendan Canning's 2008 single.

Hit-Boy

Hit-Boy (Chauncey Hollis II, born 1987, Fontana, California) is an American producer and rapper, not to be confused with Haitiboy. Three-time Grammy winner behind 'Niggas in Paris,' 'Sicko Mode,' and Nas's King's Disease albums; founder of Surf Club and HS87.

Hit-Girl

Hit-Girl is the superhero name of Mindy McCready (Macready in films), the child assassin of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s Kick-Ass comics and films, played by Chloë Grace Moretz, with her own Marvel Icon and Image spin-off series.

Hit-Monkey

Hit-Monkey, also called Hit Monkey, is a Marvel Comics assassin character: a suited Japanese macaque created by Daniel Way and Dalibor Talajic, debuting in a 2010 one-shot, later starring in Hulu's two-season animated series.

Hit-Monkey (TV series)

Hit-Monkey is a Hulu adult animated Marvel series (2021–2024) by Will Speck and Josh Gordon, based on Daniel Way's 2010 comic, starring Jason Sudeikis and Fred Tatasciore across two 10-episode seasons.

HIT: The First Case

HIT: The First Case is a 2020 Indian Telugu-language crime mystery thriller directed by Sailesh Kolanu, starring Vishwak Sen and Ruhani Sharma as a police officer investigating a missing woman in Hyderabad.

HIT: The First Case (2022 film)

HIT: The First Case (2022) is a Hindi-language crime thriller directed by Sailesh Kolanu, a remake of his 2020 Telugu film, starring Rajkummar Rao and Sanya Malhotra, released July 15, 2022, and streaming on Netflix.

HIT: The Second Case

HIT: The Second Case (HIT 2) is a 2022 Telugu crime thriller written and directed by Sailesh Kolanu, starring Adivi Sesh as cop KD hunting a serial killer in Visakhapatnam; released 2 December 2022, streaming on Prime Video.

HIT: The Third Case

HIT: The Third Case (హిట్: ది థర్డ్ కేస్), aka HIT 3, is a 2025 Telugu crime thriller directed by Sailesh Kolanu, starring Nani as officer Arjun Sarkaar hunting a cult of killers; released May 1, 2025, grossing ₹119.48 crore and streaming on Netflix.

Hitachi

Hitachi, Ltd. (株式会社日立製作所) is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 1910 by Namihei Odaira as a mining machinery repair shop in Ibaraki Prefecture.

Hitachi Construction Machinery

Hitachi Construction Machinery is a Japanese construction machinery maker headquartered in Tokyo. Established in 1970, it produces hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, and mining equipment worldwide.

Hitachi Energy

Hitachi Energy is a Swiss power technology company, Hitachi Group's energy arm, formed from ABB's Power Grids business in 2020 and a leader in HVDC transmission.

Hitachi Energy India

Hitachi Energy India Limited is the Indian arm of the Swiss-based Hitachi Energy group, manufacturing transformers and HVDC transmission equipment from operations in India since 1949.

Hitachi High-Tech

Hitachi High-Tech Corporation (株式会社日立ハイテク) is a Tokyo-based Japanese manufacturer of semiconductor metrology and inspection equipment, analytical instruments, and electron microscopes. Formed in 2001, it holds roughly 70% of the global CD-SEM market.

Hitachi Kamine Zoo

Hitachi Kamine Zoo (日立市かみね動物園), opened 1957 in Kamine Park, Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan, is a municipal zoo holding about 100 species and 540 animals, with Pacific Ocean views, a Night Zoo summer event, and the ZOO SCIENCE HUB research partnership with Ibaraki University and Chiba Zoological Park.