Usually means: Signal for a free ride.
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  1. thumb a lift: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. thumb a lift: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. thumb a lift: Wiktionary

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▸ verb:  (intransitive, chiefly British) To hitchhike.

Similar:
thumb a ride, thumb, hitch, thumb down, tramp, tremp, hitch-hike, hitchhike, hitch up, tootle, more...

Opposite:
hitchhike, thumb ride, catch ride, bum ride

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Similar:
thumb a ride, thumb, hitch, thumb down, tramp, tremp, hitch-hike, hitchhike, hitch up, tootle, more...

Opposite:
hitchhike, thumb ride, catch ride, bum ride



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