hit parade

1. 1.

   a collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kind

   Broadercollection
2. 2.

   a ranked list of the songs that are most popular at a given time

   Broaderlist

Questions about hit parade

What does hit parade mean?

hit parade means "a collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kind". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is hit parade a common word?

hit parade is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.