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/ˈhɪt͡ʃhaɪk/ · verb
(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..
She made a great many photographs, and hitchhiked her way back to Lanchow again, and thence to Peking.
Holly came from Miami, F-L-A / Hitchhiked her way across the U.S.A.
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.
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. […]”
In genetic hitchhiking, a gene is propagated because it occurs in conjunction with a favourable mutation.
In cultural hitchhiking, a cultural trait spreads with a technologically advanced population.
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.
Use hitchhike when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hitchhike means (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..
Common synonyms include hitch, hitch a ride, thumb a lift, thumb a ride.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She made a great many photographs, and hitchhiked her way back to Lanchow again, and thence to Peking.
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