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HITCHHIKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hitchhike mean?
• HITCHHIKE (verb)
The verb HITCHHIKE has 1 sense:
1. travel by getting free rides from motorists
Familiarity information: HITCHHIKE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they hitchhike
... he / she / it hitchhikes

Past simple: hitchhiked

Past participle: hitchhiked

-ing form: hitchhiking





Past simple: hitchhiked


Past participle: hitchhiked


-ing form: hitchhiking


Sense 1
Meaning:
Travel by getting free rides from motorists
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "hitchhike" is one way to...):
ride (be carried or travel on or in a vehicle)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
hitchhiker (a person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles)
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