nonhit
nounEtymology From non- + hit.
1
A song, etc. that fails to become a hit.
- 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.”2008 June 16, Ben Ratliff, “Pop Veterans Still Pumping Anti-Charisma”, in New York Times:
2
Computing, Engineering, Information technology, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Failure to match any record in an information retrieval system.
- Nonhits occur when there is no definite element, such as Library of Congress or ISBN number, in the brief record...1992, Beverly K. Duval, Linda Main, Automated library systems: