hitchhiker
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- noun
- /ˈhɪtʃˌhaɪkər/
- In the summer, you can often find a hitchhiker waiting by the roadside, hoping for a lift to the next town.
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Watch on YouTubeAnd I was a hitchhiker for many years.
- And I was a hitchhiker for many years.
- I call the VCs, I call them hitchhikers with credit cards.
- I think I was like the last of the hitchhikers.
- We are hitchhikers on a piece of DNA, like to say.
Examples
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Mom told me never to pick up hitchhikers.
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Most people are afraid to pick up hitchhikers.
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And I was a hitchhiker for many years.
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You were a hitchhiker when I met you!
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Found me a hitchhiker on the way into town this morning.
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The man driving looks over the back seat to the hitchhiker behind him.
Fiction book (1993) -
In Cuba, it is illegal not to pick up a hitchhiker just to save fuel.
Blog text (8) -
Harry hasn't picked up a hitchhiker in fifteen or twenty years; it has all gotten too dangerous for that.
Fiction book (1997) -
She's old, she hates almost everyone, and she picks up hitchhikers.
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Haven't you noticed there's, like, way more hitchhikers here than you've ever seen?
Synonyms
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A person who stands by the road and signals drivers for a free ride
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word hitchhiker comes from the parts hitch (meaning 'to get a ride') and hiker (a person who walks). A helpful image is someone standing by the road with their thumb up to 'hitch a ride', so a hitchhiker is a person who travels by asking for free rides from passing cars.