Usually means: Discover or think of unexpectedly.
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  1. hit upon: Wiktionary
  2. hit upon: Dictionary.com
  3. hit upon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hit upon: Legal dictionary
  2. hit upon: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hit upon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hit upon: Medical dictionary

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (hit upon)

verb:  To address.
verb:  (idiomatic) To think of; to discover or invent.

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