Usually means: Respond aggressively to an attack.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. hit back: Merriam-Webster
  2. hit back: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. hit back: Wiktionary
  4. hit back: Dictionary.com
  5. Hit Back: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. hit back: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. hit back: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hit back: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hit back: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hit back: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (hit back)

verb:  (intransitive) To retaliate
verb:  (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To return a missed phone call with (someone).

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