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Definition of hit the books

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Other terms relating to 'to study':

Definitions include: studious.
Definitions include: to study to excess or to be over-competitive in school-work.

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Other terms relating to 'book':

Definitions include: to leave quickly.
Definitions include: to move very fast.
Definitions include: knowledge gained from reading and studying.
Definitions include: strictly following procedure.
Definitions include: a lock-up in a local police station.
Definitions include: to end.
Definitions include: manipulated accounting records.
Definitions include: to change accounting records to hide fraud or other crimes.
Definitions include: to not follow the script.
Definitions include: something extremely notable.
Definitions include: a paper notebook passed between peers at a school, in which they write mean things about classmates and others.
Definitions include: to prosecute to the full extent of the law.

Other terms relating to 'hit':

Definitions include: something popular but lacking in substance.
Definitions include: extremely ugly
Definitions include: messy, trashy, or dilapidated.
Definitions include: see home run.
Definitions include: to rob somebody or win a large amount of money gambling.
Definitions include: see touchdown.
Definitions include: to respond to an insult or criticism with the same.
Definitions include: See hit back.
Definitions include: to be at one's lowest point in life.
Definitions include: to travel on the highway or interstate.
Definitions include: to have sex.
Definitions include: to have sex with a person and then stop seeing that person.
Definitions include: to get along well.
Definitions include: to have unprotected sex.
Definitions include: it refers to a music, drinking, smoking or anything you can do.

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

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