hitch
hitch
Definition
hitch (hic̸h)
intransitive verb
- to move jerkily; walk haltingly; limp; hobble
- to become fastened or caught, as by becoming entangled or hooking on to something
- to strike the feet together in moving: said of a horse
- ☆ Slang to hitchhike
Etymology: ME hicchen, to move jerkily < ?
transitive verb
- to move, pull, or shift with jerks hitch your chair up to the table
- to fasten with a hook, knot, harness, etc.; unite; tie: often with up to hitch a wagon to a tractor
- Informal to marry: usually in the passive
- ☆ Slang to hitchhike
noun
- a short, sudden movement or pull; tug; jerk
- a hobble; limp
- a hindrance; obstacle; entanglement
- a fastening or catch; thing or part used to connect or join together a trailer hitch on the car's bumper
- ☆ Slang a ride in hitchhiking
- ☆ Slang a period of time served, as of military service, imprisonment, etc.
- a kind of knot that can be easily undone, for fastening a line as to a ring or pole
without a hitch
smoothly, easily, and successfully
hitch
Synonyms
hitch
Synonyms
hitch
v.
hitch
Usage Examples
Object
- lift: He had hitched a lift out of Kuwait on a New Zealand war plane.
- ride: Should the much smaller male come across a female on the way he will hitch a ride, firmly grasping her with his limbs.
Converse of object
- hike: Prior to that, however, he has, at the age of 19, hitch hiked all over Europe.
- tow: Ensure the trailer is nicely balanced with a modicum of downforce at the towing hitch.
Adjective modifier
- last-minute: MTV votes on union recognition A postal ballot of MTV staff is going ahead despite a last-minute hitch.
- slight: There was one slight hitch, or to be precise, there wasn't one slight Paul.
- technical: Charles wasn't put on the plane due to a technical hitch.
- minor: But there's a slight problem, a minor hitch, and we couldn't just get on with the burial.
Modifies a noun
- hiker: Hitch hiker 's probably should never have been made into a film.
- nfl: A bill buffalo cover hitch nfl team trailer time that get the price.
- hike: Don't hitch hike or take lifts from strangers.
- trailer: Legal status to cover hitch texas trailer are eligible for study using nhis.
- receiver: To protect trailer hitch receiver cover their rise in numbers with his peers.
- plug: On trailer hitch plug cover personnel issues quot he's constantly on a high.
Noun used with modifier
- clove: By rolling the clove hitch up every few moves you will have a back-up should the waist prussic fail.
- Yankee: Coming from the managers new york yankee trailer hitch cover you are.
- mickey: Absolutely no obligation our plans for to mickey mouse trailer hitch cover financial loss the risk of.
- trailer: Benefit pension of the ohio state trailer hitch cover month had less than.
- tow: Easy, we can supply spare tow hitches to make a useful addition to all your bicycles.
- cub: Of money a a cover cub hitch year a answers fall short.
Browse dictionary entries near hitch
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- hit the hay
- hit-skip
- hit-or-miss
- hit on or upon
- hit man
- hit list
- hit it off
- hit-and-run statute
- Hitchcock
- hitchhike
- hither
- hithermost
- hitherto
- hitherward
- Hitler
- Hitlerism
- hitting
- Hittite
