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hitchhike en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From hitch + hike.
Meanings
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A journey made by hitchhiking.
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of hitchhiker (“advertisement at the end of a programme”).
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.
1952, Frank Emerson Andrews, Corporation Giving, page 183:
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Relateds
hitchhiker
hitchhike en · VERB
Pronunciation
Etymology
From hitch + hike.
Meanings
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(intransitive) 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.
Tens of thousands of people had come to Washington the night before. They hitchhiked. They hopped on trains. They came in caravans of buses, through the night.
2020, Jill Lepore, “The Things They Carried” (chapter 11), in If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, Liveright Publishing Corporation, page 251:Holly came from Miami, F-L-A / Hitchhiked her way across the U.S.A.
1972, Lou Reed, “Walk on the Wild Side”, in Transformer:She made a great many photographs, and hitchhiked her way back to Lanchow again, and thence to Peking.
1953, Pearl Buck, “Preface”, in Irene Vongehr Vincent, The Sacred Oasis: Caves of the Thousand Buddhas Tun Huang, University of Chicago Press, page x:
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(US, transitive) To try to get (a ride) in this manner.
Pamela hitchhiked a ride to New York.
“I’m not goin’ to tell you what happened to me,” Asey said, “from the time I found her till I finally managed to hitchhike a ride to town. I want to forget that period of my life. […]”
1945, Phoebe Atwood Taylor, Proof of the Pudding, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, page 42:
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(broadly, intransitive) To be carried along with something else.
We are constantly being exposed to fungi, whether by picking up spores on our skin or eating food on which fungi are hitchhiking. Most of them won’t take up residence in our bodies.
2022 September 29, Carl Zimmer, “A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes”, in The New York Times:In cultural hitchhiking, a cultural trait spreads with a technologically advanced population.
In genetic hitchhiking, a gene is propagated because it occurs in conjunction with a favourable mutation.
Forms
Synonyms
hitch · thumb a ride · thumb a lift · hitch a ride
Translations (66)
he נָסַע בְּטְרֶמְפּ (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · lo ໂບກລົດ (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · fo tumla (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · el κάνω οτοστόπ (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · hu stoppal megy (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · nb haike (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · fr faire de l'auto-stop (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · hu autóstoppal megy (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · gd siubhail air an òrdaig (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · es pedir un bote (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · cmn 順風車 /顺风车 (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · pt pedir carona (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · bg пътувам на автостоп (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · hu stoppol (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · da tomle (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · ru голосова́ть (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · da blaffe (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · es echar / jalar / tirar / halar dedo (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · ja ヒッチハイクする (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · gl facer autostop (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · br c'hoari biz-meud (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · sl štopati (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · mi haere paoeke (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · gl facer dedo (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · lt tranzuoti (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · nl liften (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · cmn 搭車 /搭车 (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · fi liftata (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · lv stopēt (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · mn дайгдах (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · pl łapać okazję (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · sk ísť autostopom (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · sv lifta (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · fr faire du stop (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · mk стопи́ра (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · et hääletama (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · pt pedir boleia (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · ro sta la ocazie (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · ru путеше́ствовать автосто́пом (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · de per Anhalter fahren (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · io autostopar (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · cmn 搭便車 /搭便车 (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · to kole lifi (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · km ឈរតាមផ្លូវសុំដោយសារឡានគេ (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · de trampen (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · eo petveturi (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · fa اتواستپ کردن (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · mk автостопи́ра (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · es hacer autostop / autoestop (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · cs stopovat (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · sh stopirati (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · es hacer dedo (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · ro face autostopul (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · ca fer autoestop (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · th โบกรถ (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · nn haika (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · de autostoppen (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · vi quá giang (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · hy ճանապարհորդել ավտոստոպով (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · lv īkšķot (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · ro sta la „ia-mă, nene” (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · he תָּפַס טְרֶמְפּ (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · ta கெஞ்சுப்பயணம் (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · lt keliauti autostopu (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · is fara á puttanum (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road) · tr otostop çekmek (to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road)