"hit the pavement" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hits the pavement",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hitting the pavement",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hit the pavement",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hit the pavement",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "hit<,,hit> the pavement"
      },
      "expansion": "hit the pavement (third-person singular simple present hits the pavement, present participle hitting the pavement, simple past and past participle hit the pavement)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 July 31, Ceri Au, “Fighting for the Right to Flush”, in Time:",
          "text": "But getting people to hit the pavement is more than just a health concern. . . . [M]unicipalities are looking to combat inner-city decay by keeping the streets flush with pedestrians.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To travel on foot, as on a sidewalk."
      ],
      "id": "en-hit_the_pavement-en-verb-3lzLVXFC",
      "links": [
        [
          "on foot",
          "on foot"
        ],
        [
          "sidewalk",
          "sidewalk"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To travel on foot, as on a sidewalk."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
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        },
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1925, \"Automotive Section: \"Hitting it up\" (advertisement),\" Ottawa Citizen, 4 July (retrieved 28 Sep 2010)",
          "text": "And when we hit the pavement, we found we had covered the last 54 miles in an hour and twenty minutes."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To travel or begin to move in an automobile or other road vehicle."
      ],
      "id": "en-hit_the_pavement-en-verb-MCjpZRBj",
      "links": [
        [
          "move",
          "move"
        ],
        [
          "automobile",
          "automobile"
        ],
        [
          "road",
          "road"
        ],
        [
          "vehicle",
          "vehicle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To travel or begin to move in an automobile or other road vehicle."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "10 90",
          "sense": "begin to walk",
          "word": "hit the bricks"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 90",
          "sense": "begin to walk",
          "word": "pound the pavement"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "sense": "begin to move in an auto",
          "word": "hit the road"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "hit the pavement"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English predicates",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hits the pavement",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hitting the pavement",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hit the pavement",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hit the pavement",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "hit<,,hit> the pavement"
      },
      "expansion": "hit the pavement (third-person singular simple present hits the pavement, present participle hitting the pavement, simple past and past participle hit the pavement)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 July 31, Ceri Au, “Fighting for the Right to Flush”, in Time:",
          "text": "But getting people to hit the pavement is more than just a health concern. . . . [M]unicipalities are looking to combat inner-city decay by keeping the streets flush with pedestrians.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To travel on foot, as on a sidewalk."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "on foot",
          "on foot"
        ],
        [
          "sidewalk",
          "sidewalk"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To travel on foot, as on a sidewalk."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English idioms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1925, \"Automotive Section: \"Hitting it up\" (advertisement),\" Ottawa Citizen, 4 July (retrieved 28 Sep 2010)",
          "text": "And when we hit the pavement, we found we had covered the last 54 miles in an hour and twenty minutes."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To travel or begin to move in an automobile or other road vehicle."
      ],
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        [
          "move",
          "move"
        ],
        [
          "automobile",
          "automobile"
        ],
        [
          "road",
          "road"
        ],
        [
          "vehicle",
          "vehicle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To travel or begin to move in an automobile or other road vehicle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "begin to walk",
      "word": "hit the bricks"
    },
    {
      "sense": "begin to walk",
      "word": "pound the pavement"
    },
    {
      "sense": "begin to move in an auto",
      "word": "hit the road"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hit the pavement"
}