hit the hay

Questions about hit the hay

What does hit the hay mean?

hit the hay means "prepare for sleep".

What is another word for hit the hay?

Close synonyms include go to bed, turn in, bed, crawl in, kip down. 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 hay a common word?

hit the hay 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.