hike

(hīk)

verb hiked hiked, hik·ing, hikes verb, intransitive

1. To go on an extended walk for pleasure or exercise.
2. To rise, especially to rise upward out of place: My coat had hiked up in the back.

verb, transitive

1. To increase or raise in amount, especially abruptly: shopkeepers who hiked their prices for the tourist trade.
2. To pull or raise with a sudden motion; hitch: hiked myself onto the stone wall; hiked up her knee socks.
3. Football To snap (the ball).

noun

1. A long walk or march.
2. An often abrupt increase or rise: a price hike.
3. Football See snap.

Phrasal Verb: hike out Nautical To sit facing the sail and lean far backward and over the side of a heeling sailboat in order to counterbalance the heel.

Related Forms:

• hikˈer noun