Noun

(en noun)

A song, etc. that fails to become a hit.

*{{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 16, author=Ben Ratliff, title=Pop Veterans Still Pumping Anti-Charisma, work=New York Times citation

, passage=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...