"hit the books" meaning in English

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      "form": "hits the books",
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      "form": "hit the books",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They go to the beach when they should be hitting the books and then they wonder why they get bad grades.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To study, especially with particular intensity."
      ],
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        [
          "study",
          "study"
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          "intensity"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly US and Australia, informal, figuratively) To study, especially with particular intensity."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "crack a book"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "US",
        "figuratively",
        "informal"
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        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "study",
          "word": "šrotit"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "study",
          "word": "šprtat"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "study",
          "word": "pune pe învățat"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zubrítʹ",
          "sense": "study",
          "word": "зубри́ть"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "study",
          "tags": [
            "colloquial"
          ],
          "word": "hincar los codos"
        }
      ]
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  "word": "hit the books"
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      "form": "hits the books",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "hitting the books",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hit the books",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hit the books",
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        "past"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "To study, especially with particular intensity."
      ],
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        "(chiefly US and Australia, informal, figuratively) To study, especially with particular intensity."
      ],
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "study",
      "word": "šrotit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "study",
      "word": "šprtat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "study",
      "word": "pune pe învățat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zubrítʹ",
      "sense": "study",
      "word": "зубри́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "study",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "hincar los codos"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hit the books"
}