disapproval If you say that someone is over the hill, you are saying rudely that they are old and no longer fit, attractive, or capable of doing useful work. He doesn't take kindly to suggestions that he is over the hill. American Confederate officer active in the Seven Days' Battle, the Second Battle of Bull Run, and the Battle of Antietam (all 1862). His charge began the Battle of Gettysburg (1863). American railroad magnate who promoted the Great Northern Railway and with J.P. Morgan wrested control of the Northern Pacific Railroad from E.H. Harriman in a stock market struggle that provoked the Panic of 1901. Bunker Hill Battle of Hill David Octavius and Robert Adamson Hill James Jerome Hill Joe Hill painting