hitchhike
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hitchhike
- /ˈhɪt͡ʃhaɪk/
Where it comes from
From hitch + hike.
verb hitchhikes · hitchhiking · hitchhiked · hitch-hike
- To try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road, generally by either sticking out one's finger or thumb or holding a sign with one's stated destination. She made a great many photographs, and hitchhiked her way back to Lanchow again, and thence to Peking.
- To try to get (a ride) in this manner. Pamela hitchhiked a ride to New York.
- To be carried along with something else. In genetic hitchhiking, a gene is propagated because it occurs in conjunction with a favourable mutation.
Similar: hitch, hitch a ride, thumb a lift, thumb a ride
noun hitchhikes · hitch-hike
- A journey made by hitchhiking.
- Alternative form of hitchhiker (“advertisement at the end of a programme”).hitchhiker There are just too many diseases for each to have its own special organization, complete with radio hitchhikes, sponsored ads, expensive brochures, pledge cards, team captains and collection envelopes.
