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How to pronounce hitchhike in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hitch, thumb
Type of ride
Derivation hitchhiker

Examples of hitchhike

hitchhike
Dailey warns that some insect pests can hitchhike to new places inside firewood.
From the democratandchronicle.com
We decided to hitchhike north and west to Interstate 5, then north to Seattle.
From the thenewstribune.com
He decides to walk and hitchhike across the country to try to find his family.
From the post-gazette.com
They can be carried by humans and pets, and hitchhike on clothing and luggage.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Finally, as they headed back to Utah in March 2003, Smart suggested they hitchhike.
From the cnn.com
When I was young, way back there in the 20th century, I used to hitchhike.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
Does she now have to go negative, or should she try to hitchhike on the hope express?
From the washingtonpost.com
Unable to hitchhike, he starts traveling via freight train to Los Angeles, California.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I got lost on more than one occasion and even once had to hitchhike home.
From the washingtonpost.com
More examples
  • Travel by getting free rides from motorists
  • Hitchhiking (also known as thumbing, tramping, hitching, autostop or thumbing up a ride) is a means of transportation that is gained by asking people, usually strangers, for a ride in their automobile or other road vehicle to travel a distance that may either be short or long. ...
  • 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; To be carried along with something else, for example Genetic Hitchhiking where a gene is propagated because it ...
  • (Hitchhikers) Active and passive candidates seeking employment.
  • (hitchhiking) The increase in frequency of a selectively neutral allele through gametic disequilibrium with a beneficial allele that selection increases in frequency in a population.
  • (Hitch-hiking) The technique of flighting two commercials in one slot.
  • (HITCHHIKING) Using the idea of someone else to come up with one of your own. This is encouraged in divergent thinking exercises such as brain-storming.
  • (hitchhiking) A member uses an idea of another member to stimulate his or her imagination, thereby creating an idea that is a variation of the original.
  • A seed travels by attaching itself to an animal or person.