Usually means: Travel by obtaining free rides.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word hitchhike:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. hitchhike: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hitchhike: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hitchhike: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hitchhike: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hitchhike: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hitchhike, hitchhike: Wordnik
  7. hitchhike: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hitchhike: Wiktionary
  9. hitchhike: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hitchhike: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hitchhike: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hitchhike: Dictionary.com
  13. hitchhike: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hitchhike: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. hitchhike: Rhymezone
  16. hitchhike: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. hitchhike: Free Dictionary
  18. hitchhike: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Hitchhike: The Word Detective
  20. hitchhike: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. hitchhike: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hitchhike: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hitchhike: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hitchhike: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hitchhiked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) 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.
verb:  (US, transitive) 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.
verb:  (US, transitive) to make (one's way) by hitchhiking.
verb:  (intransitive, by extension) To be carried along with something else.
noun:  A journey made by hitchhiking.
noun:  (radio, advertising) Alternative form of hitchhiker (“advertisement at the end of a programme”) [A person or thing that hitchhikes.]

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