nonhit
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]nonhit (plural nonhits)
- A song, etc. that fails to become a hit.
- 2008 June 16, Ben Ratliff, “Pop Veterans Still Pumping Anti-Charisma”, in New York Times[1]:
- There was a difference in the decibel level of the crowd roar when the band started up a hit — “Hey Nineteen,” “Peg,” “Black Friday” — as opposed to a nonhit, like “Show Biz Kids” or “Babylon Sisters.”
- (information technology) Failure to match any record in an information retrieval system.
- 1992, Beverly K. Duval, Linda Main, Automated library systems:
- Nonhits occur when there is no definite element, such as Library of Congress or ISBN number, in the brief record...