hit the dirt

1. 1.

   fall or drop suddenly, usually to evade some danger

   “The soldiers hit the dirt when they heard gunfire”

   Synonymshit the deck

   Broadermove

Questions about hit the dirt

What does hit the dirt mean?

hit the dirt means "fall or drop suddenly, usually to evade some danger".

What is another word for hit the dirt?

Close synonyms include hit the deck. 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 dirt a common word?

hit the dirt 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.