to hitchhike
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3.9
- verb
- /ˈhɪtʃˌhaɪk/
- Informal
:
hacer autostop
- Stick out your thumb and hitchhike to Iowa or Wisconsin as soon as possible.
I spent almost seven weeks hitchhiking across the country.
- I spent almost seven weeks hitchhiking across the country.
- Bacteria may be able to spread that resistance by hitchhiking around the world using clouds.
- The thing is, it starts off it's a woman hitchhiking, right?
- So now we have to hitchhike from the woods out in the forest and Fallbrook back up to the freeway and try and hitchhike home to Huntington Beach.
- Well, I hitchhiked through Turkey and then Iran and then through Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- So these things are changing your gene expression and they can hitchhike on to the sperm and egg DNA and be passed on to your children and grandchildren.
- One of Quick, quick little my friend, my Hopi friend Raymond and I are hitchhiking from town out to where we live in the country, and we get picked up by this.
- I said we skied the backside of Squaw where we'd hitchhike back.
- Yes, and get lost and hitchhiking after discovering Chris Barefoot's house.
- Woman's hitchhiking will just say gets picked up by someone, is sexually assaulted.
- And then from Hammersmith they went to Sardinia, hitchhiked the Sardinia, that one, because that's before the story mixed up a bit.
Examples
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A few days ago, they picked up a girl hitchhiking off 81... ...a runaway, about 18, maybe.
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After running out of money, I decided to hitchhike to the next city for free rides.
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We'll hitchhike to a bigger town.
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So eat your sandwich, wash up, and hitchhike off to LA.
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I spent almost seven weeks hitchhiking across the country.
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Before John got the GTO, we tried to hitchhike, but no one would pick us up.
Fiction book (1999) -
Yeah, I've been hitchhiking for a while now.
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You can hitchhike home.
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In July, she got another long weekend and hitchhiked to Aureole.
Fiction book (1993) -
If Judd had known Vicki was going to just leave and hitchhike to Michigan, he would have taken her himself.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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3.9
To travel by getting rides from passing drivers
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3.2
To travel in someone else's car as a passenger
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6.2
To travel by getting free rides from passing cars while standing at the road with your arm raised
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8.2
To get a free ride from a passing car by standing by the road and showing your thumb
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Etymology
Hitchhike comes from two English words: hitch (meaning 'to get a lift', as in 'hitch a ride') and hike (meaning 'to walk' or 'travel'). So imagine 'hooking' a free ride while you travel, which is exactly what hitchhiking means.