Timeline for "Feel free to hit me up" — "at"? "on"? "via"?
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| Sep 20, 2012 at 14:05 | comment | added | Jay | Do you live somewhere other than America? As an American, I hear this expression fairly often. As to the tail end of your comment, it's tough enough to understand English grammar, I don't claim to begin to understand women. | |
| Sep 20, 2012 at 10:10 | comment | added | Robin Michael | I have only come across this expression in American movies. Usually in the context 'some guy was hitting on me in the bus' in which the romantic proposal is received negatively. Rather like the older expression, 'that man was making a pass at me'. Why is it, women don't like it when men find them attractive? And, why do women dress in a way that encourages men to find them attractive? | |
| Sep 19, 2012 at 20:24 | comment | added | Jay | Maybe it's a national/regional idiom, but to me, "to hit on" means to make a romantic or sexual proposition. We say, "Bob was hitting on Sally at the party" meaning he was asking her for a date or a sexual romp. If a woman told me, "Feel free to hit on me", I'd take that as an invitation to do far more than send her an email. Maybe the meaning is different in the UK or wherever. | |
| Sep 19, 2012 at 16:59 | history | answered | Robin Michael | CC BY-SA 3.0 |