Definition of "hit out"

hit out

verb
third-person singular simple present hits out, present participle hitting out, simple past and past participle hit out
1. To strike out with the fist, usually without planning or accuracy.
2. (figurative) To react viciously (towards someone/something).
  Quotations
  'What have we done? What shall we ever do? Just drift and criticize, while people who know what they want snatch it away from us and laugh.” / “Perhaps you are that sort. I’m not. When the moment comes I shall hit out like any ploughboy. …"
  1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XX
3. (obsolete) To perform by good luck.
  Quotations
  having the sound of those auncient poets still ringing in his eares, he mought needes, in singing, hit out some of their tunes
  1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […]; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890,