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hitch¹

  • /hɪt͡ʃ/

Rhymes with -ɪtʃ

Where it comes from

Probably from Middle English hicchen, hytchen, icchen (“to move; to move as with a jerk”), of obscure origin. Lacks cognates in other languages. Compare itch, hike.

noun hitches

  1. A sudden pull.
  2. Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
  3. A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer. His truck sported a heavy-duty hitch for his boat.
  4. informal A problem, delay or source of difficulty. The banquet went off without a hitch
  5. A hidden or unfavorable condition or element. The deal sounds too good to be true. What's the hitch?
  6. slang A period of time spent in the military. She served two hitches in Vietnam.
  7. A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
  8. A hole cut into the wall of a mine on which timbers are rested. An upcast fault is when the seam is thrown up; to counteract this a "canch" of top stone must be taken down outbye over from the fault, and a "canch" of bottom stone taken up inbye over from the fault, then level up to the bottom of your "canch" at the foreside of the hitch outbye over until you hav

verb hitches · hitching · hitched

  1. transitive To pull with a jerk. She hitched her jeans up and then tightened her belt.
  2. transitive To attach, tie or fasten. He hitched the bedroll to his backpack and went camping.
  3. informal To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
  4. abbreviation, clipping, informal, transitive Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.hitchhike to hitch a ride
  5. intransitive To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling. atoms[…]which at length hitched together
  6. intransitive To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded. Frank’s breath hitched in his throat when he saw the knife being pointed at him.
  7. UK, intransitive To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere. Stolen[…]A brown Gelding[…]all his paces, and hitches a little in his pace.

Hitch²

Where it comes from

From a medieval diminutive of the male give name Richard.

proper noun

  1. A surname transferred from the given name.

Hitch³

proper noun

  1. informal Alfred Hitchcock

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