hit the books

1. 1.

   learn by reading books

   “He is studying geology in his room”

   “I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now”

   Synonymsstudy

   Broaderlearn

   Narrowermemorizecram

Questions about hit the books

What does hit the books mean?

hit the books means "learn by reading books".

What is another word for hit the books?

Close synonyms include study. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hit the books a common word?

hit the books is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.