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Hitchhike meaning
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 try to get (a ride) in this manner. | To be carried along with something else.
Example sentences (11)
Anyway, is it legal to hitchhike in Minnesota?
The young couple disappeared after leaving Berowra Heights with plans to hitchhike to Kempsey and Byron Bay.
He pointed to an old friendship group of his who used to hitchhike and go walking in Wales and go to the pub on a Tuesday night.
In recent years, migrants who have been unable to obtain permission to cross Mexico have joined together in caravans to walk or hitchhike north toward the US border, seeking safety in numbers.
The Minions hitchhike to Orlando, Florida, in the late 1960s and meet Scarlet Overkill (Sandra Bullock) at a villain convention.
Then they would hitchhike home.
Mosquitoes may hitchhike in vehicles returning from malaria areas and transmit the infection to non-travellers, which is so-called “suitcase malaria”.
They said they hitchhike from Serbia or stow away in lorries through Bosnia, Croatia and into Slovenia.
When on leave, he would hitchhike home to see his sweetheart, Edie Remlinger.
On impulse, Elin persuades Agnes to hitchhike to Stockholm, a five-hour car journey.
Planning was eschewed, as hippies were happy to put a few clothes in a backpack, stick out their thumbs and hitchhike anywhere.