Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A product or event, such as a movie or concert, that is exceedingly successful.
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- noun A large
success orhit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel)
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Examples
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If you’ve been following the nation’s growing “real food” movement, you may know of Joel Salatin, who features in megahit The Omnivore’s Dilemma and upcoming food documentary FRESH.
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Doug Creutz of Cowen and Company said qualms ran deeper than whether "Up" will be a hit -- he thinks it will -- but rather whether Pixar can deliver the kind of megahit it once did.
Michael Giltz: NYT Blows It On Pixar, The Safest Bet In Hollywood 2009
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Doug Creutz of Cowen and Company said qualms ran deeper than whether “Up” will be a hit — he thinks it will — but rather whether Pixar can deliver the kind of megahit it once did.
Pixar Finds Toy Retailers, Wall Street down on “Up” | The Disney Blog 2009
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"Up" will be a hit - he thinks it will - but rather whether Pixar can deliver the kind of megahit it once did.
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Doug Creutz of Cowen and Company said qualms ran deeper than whether "Up" will be a hit -- he thinks it will -- but rather whether Pixar can deliver the kind of megahit it once did.
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The top five "megahit" games make between $1 million and $3 million a month.
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Choral group Voce will perform romantic love songs, from the jazzy "My Funny Valentine" to a rendition of Whitney Houston's megahit "I Will Always Love You."
Free and easy: Valentine's songs, dance lessons, '60s photography Jess Righthand 2011
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The network thankfully still has another megahit in The Big Bang Theory, also from Lorre.
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Her rich alto also soared on American gems such as Van Morrison's "Moondance" and Irving Berlin's "Let's Face the Music and Dance" and Peggy Lee's megahit, "Fever."
In concert: Herb Alpert at the Birchmere John Murph 2011
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And as one might have expected, "Titanic," James Cameron's maudlin megahit movie, is being rereleased—in 3-D, of course.
Titanic Centennial Commemorations Sink to New Lows Eric Felten 2012
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