hit up someone

infml — phrasal verb with hit

/hɪt/ verb [T]

Definition

› to ask someone for something, esp. money: She tried to hit me up for a loan till payday, but I didn’t have any money to give her.

(Definition of hit up someone from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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