megahit

From mega- +‎ hit.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɡəhɪt/

megahit (plural megahits)

1. A large success or hit. [from 20th c.]
   • 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:

     We settle on our target: a group of women riding around on a Manhattan tour bus and visiting sites featured in HBO's '90s megahit Sex and the City.

   • 2025 September 6, Catherine Pearson, “She Started the Debate About Kids and Phones. Now She Wants to End It.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     [Jean] Twenge […] isn’t necessarily a household name like her sometimes collaborator Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and the author of the megahit “The Anxious Generation,” which has spent 75 weeks hovering near the top of the New York Times best-seller list.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

From mega- +‎ hit.

megahit n (plural megahituri)

1. megahit