noun
an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel)
• Syn: ↑blockbuster, ↑smash hit
• Usage Domain: ↑trope, ↑figure of speech, ↑figure, ↑image
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\\"ˌˌ\ nounEtymology: mega- + hit (II)
: something (as a motion picture) that is extremely successful
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/meg"euh hit'/, n.
an enterprise, as a movie, that is outstandingly successful.
[1980-85]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.