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Definition of Hitchhike
1. Verb. Travel by getting free rides from motorists.
Definition of Hitchhike
1. Verb. 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. ¹
2. Verb. To be carried along with something else, for example Genetic Hitchhiking where a gene is propagated because it occurs in conjunction with a favourable mutation, or Cultural Hitchhiking where a cultural trait spreads with a technologically advanced population. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hitchhike
1. [v -HIKED, -HIKING, -HIKES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hitchhike
Literary usage of Hitchhike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adventure Guide to Guatemala by Shelagh McNally (2003)
"The only place it isn't safe to hitchhike is through El Peten. ... Women should
never hitchhike alone. By Car Renting a car gives you freedom and more time ..."
2. Mexico's Pacific Coast by Vivien Lougheed (2004)
"Hitchhiking Mexico is not a place to hitchhike. ... If for some reason you must
hitchhike, go to a service station on the edge of town and ask for a ride ..."
3. WMD Machete by Mark Plimsoll (2006)
"I don't backpack, and you won't see me hitchhike anywhere. If I go, it's first
class, baby. ... No bus, no hitchhike. That's how the other half lives. ..."
4. Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12 by Kelly Gallagher (2004)
"Adolescents, when given the chance, will often "hitchhike" in groups— that is,
go along for the ride and not pay for the gas. ..."
5. Icelandby Cathy Harlow by Cathy Harlow (2004)
"Even on the Ring Road you may wait hours, even days, for a ride, and though
Iceland may be one of the safer places in the world to hitchhike, ..."
6. Adventure Guide Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"The tunnel is now as much an Alaskan sight as a glacier, so live it up: if you
don't have a car, hitchhike through - it's easy to get a ride, ..."
7. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1884)
"... say that hitchhike was the son of Pi, the sun, and was expelled from the upper
world for a crime against his father. (See Gen. ix, 22. ..."
8. Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars, National Research Council (U.S.). Space Studies Board, National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (2006)
"... of policies and practices designed to prevent the contamination of celestial
bodies by terrestrial microorganisms that could hitchhike on a spacecraft, ..."
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