hit

   1. a drunken carouse

   From the effect of the alcohol and rhyming slang on hit and miss, piss, which is occasionally given in full:

    Sorry about my breath — I've been out on the hit and miss. {Daily Telegraph Magazine, August 1990)

   2. to kill

   Usually describing an assassination by a bullet, known as a hit and carried out by a hitman:

    This is some kind of Mafia hit? (Diehl, 1978)

    You've narrowed the field down to a couple thousand hitmen, (ibid.)

   3. to steal from

   Criminal slang, indicating the place from which the robbery was made. In America to hit may also mean to beg on the street with menaces.

   4. an ingestion of illegal narcotics

   From the immediate physical effect:

    I want another hit before you bring him in. I want to be really up for what I have to do. (Robbins, 1981).

   To hit the pipe is to smoke opium or marijuana.