hitching
present participle ofhitch
hitch
verb
uk/hɪtʃ/us/hɪtʃ/hitchverb(RIDE)
hitch a lift/rideinformal
to get afreeridein someone else'svehicleas a way oftravelling:
They hitched aliftto Edinburgh from apassingcar.
Journeys
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- carpooling
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- commuting
- field trip
- grand tour
- jaunt
- layover
- move
- odyssey
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- road trip
- round trip
- sail
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- wanderings
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Travelling
hitchverb(FASTEN)
[Tusually+ adv/prep]
tofastensomething to another thing bytyingit with aropeor using ametalhook:
Thehorseswere hitchedtoashiny,blackcarriage.
We just need to hitch thetrailer(on)tothecarand then we can go.
Fastening and tying
- anchor
- bale
- be locked togetheridiom
- belay
- bind
- boardsomethingup
- bound
- bowline
- granny knot
- half hitch
- harness
- hobble
- hogtie
- stake
- strap
- strapsomeonein
- strapsomethingup
- tack
- tapesomethingup
- tether
Phrasal verb
hitchsomethingup
Examplesofhitching
hitching
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Yet the merchants were essential in the effort to reform local economies byhitchingthem to the colonial market - and to the body of corporate nations beyond.
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Of course, byhitchingourselves to the deutschmark, we arehitchingourselves to something that is unpredictable.
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He also made some remarks abouthitchingmy wagon to a star.
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Let the registrar who did thehitchingdo the unhitching.
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Another scenario is of peoplehitchinga lift and declaring that they will be seeking asylum, but not doing so immediately and disappearing underground.
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It seems to some of us to be about as appropriate as a healthy personhitchinga lift in an ambulance.
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What has happened is not only a question of putting the cart before the horse but ofhitchingthe horse back to front even in that unusual position.
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If free trade is the virtue that he describes, there would be no harm inhitchingourselves to such a rapidly growing market and major industrial power.
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Fearing that delay would ensue, those friends and neighbours have taken action byhitchingup their tractors to the trailers, lorries, char-a-bancs and so forth, and have removed the travellers.
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What is the point ofhitchingourselves to a devil's bandwagon that could draw us into an economy that could be under severe strain in a short time?
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He winds uphitchinga ride on the back of a motorcycle with an older man.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Before the 1940s, each manufacturer used their own systems forhitching, or attaching their implements to their tractors.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The trails were developed in the late 1980s for horseback riding, and are well-equipped with watering holes andhitchingposts.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The three then begin their journey across the country byhitchingrides in semi-trucks transporting incomplete sections of houses from one location to another.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Once,hitchinga ride with a reporter, he expressed disgust at the auto's overflowing ash tray.
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