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hitch

[hich]

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verb (used with object)

to fasten or tie, especially temporarily, by means of a hook, rope, strap, etc.; tether: Steve hitched the horse to one of the posts.

to harness (an animal) to a vehicle (often followed by up).

to raise with jerks (usually followed by up); hike up: to hitch up one's trousers.

to move or draw (something) with a jerk.

Slang. to bind by marriage vows; unite in marriage; marry: They got hitched in '79.

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to catch, as on a projection; snag: He hitched his jeans on a nail and tore them.

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verb (used without object)

to stick, as when caught.

to fasten oneself or itself to something (often followed by on).

to move roughly or jerkily: The old buggy hitched along.

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to hobble or limp.

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noun

11.

the act or fact of fastening, as to something, especially temporarily.

12.

any of various knots or loops made to attach a rope to something in such a way as to be readily loosened. Compare bend¹ (def. 17).

13.

Military Slang. a period of military service: a three-year hitch in the Navy.

14.

an unexpected difficulty, obstacle, delay, etc.: a hitch in our plans for the picnic.

15.

a hitching movement; jerk or pull.

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16.

a hitching gait; a hobble or limp.

17.

a fastening that joins a movable tool to the mechanism that pulls it.

18.

Mining.

a fault having a throw less than the thickness of a coal seam being mined.

a notch cut in a wall or the like to hold the end of a stull or other timber.

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Verb phrase

19.

hitch up, to harness an animal to a wagon, carriage, or the like.

Origin:
1400–50; 1840–50 for def. 5; late Middle English hytchen, of obscure origin

Related forms

hitch·er, noun

Synonyms
1. attach, connect, hook. 2. yoke. 14. hindrance, catch, impediment.

Antonyms
1. loose, loosen.

Example Sentences

The only potential, unspeakable, hitch was the ghost.

The hitch is that you must use the money or lose it.

The hitch is that the multilateral route has, so far, achieved little.

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The only potential, unspeakable, hitch was the ghost.

The hitch is that you must use the money or lose it.

The hitch is that the multilateral route has, so far, achieved little.

Protea itch mites are known to hitch rides on sugarbirds and sunbirds in order to feed on flowerheads of sugarbushes.

Their tiny embryos can hitch rides on the swift currents of ocean eddies.

The hitch is that they are almost eight times more expensive than hard disk drives.

Two others are slim slice-of-life portraits of life among the hobos as they hitch illicit train rides from one city to another.

No technical hitch has ever has been so pervasive, so expensive or so potentially damaging as.

The record-breaking flight appeared to go off without a hitch.

Or one could rent a generator mounted on a trailer hitch.

Here's our guide to making sure your prank goes off without a hitch.

Car2gether matches people wanting to hitch a ride with drivers going the same way.

The small marine animals that hitch rides across the ocean are typically non-mobile.

The electrons then hitch a ride on the wake and accelerate toward the speed of light, all in about a meter of.

The hitch is that syngas from waste is full of tarry residue that tends to gum up the turbine.

Adults can easily hitch a ride on the bottom of boat hulls or on barges.

He navigated to a flash-heavy website, which ran without a hitch.

The only hitch is that no such repository yet exists.

Hitch a ride with an airborne biologist who uses a powered paraglider to study plant diversity from above.

Lower a hose into the water, hitch the bike up on its stand, and climb back on.

We hitch a ride in the back of a small pickup driven by a local fisherman, sharing the space with his kids.

The hitch is that color e-ink technologies aren't anywhere near ready for prime time.

The hitch is that there's always the chance a patch of bad weather could obscure the occultation entirely.

Even better, the procedure happened without a hitch.

We were going to hitch a ride on a battered old helicopter that was being loaded with uniforms and radio batteries.

Unfortunately, the biggest hitch was the web browser.

Some apps move from portrait to landscape without a hitch.

It's an elegant system, but the hitch was that no one had been able to get the same thing to happen in mammals.

We had to do a little tweaking on the setup of the shifters, but after that adjustment, everything worked without a hitch.

Data could hitch a ride on the magnetic field created by electric currents running through power line wires.

The other hitch is that the two wires are pretty much intermingled in there, rather than in their own separate sheaths.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a minnow, Lavinia exilicauda, inhabiting streams in the area of San Francisco and the Sacramento River basin.

Origin:
origin uncertain

verb (used without object), verb (used with object), noun Informal.

hitchhike.

Origin:
1865–70; by shortening

Related forms

hitch·er, noun

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Collins

World English Dictionary

hitch (hɪtʃ)

—vb (often foll by up)
1.	to fasten or become fastened with a knot or tie, esp temporarily
2.	(often foll by up) to connect (a horse, team, etc); harness
3.	to pull up (the trousers, a skirt, etc) with a quick jerk
4.	chiefly (US) (intr) to move in a halting manner: to hitch along
5.	to entangle or become entangled: the thread was hitched on the reel
6.	slang (tr; passive) to marry (esp in the phrase get hitched)
7.	informal to obtain (a ride or rides) by hitchhiking

—n
8.	an impediment or obstacle, esp one that is temporary or minor: a hitch in the proceedings
9.	a knot for fastening a rope to posts, other ropes, etc, that can be undone by pulling against the direction of the strain that holds it
10.	a sudden jerk; tug; pull: he gave it a hitch and it came loose
11.	chiefly (US) a hobbling gait: to walk with a hitch
12.	a device used for fastening
13.	informal a ride obtained by hitchhiking
14.	slang (US), (Canadian) a period of time spent in prison, in the army, etc

[C15: of uncertain origin]

'hitcher

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Word Origin & History

hitch

c.1440, probably from M.E. icchen "to move as with a jerk, to stir" (c.1200). It lacks cognates in other languages. Sense of "become fastened by a hook" first recorded 1578, originally nautical; the connection with icchen may be in notion of "hitching up" pants or boots with a jerking motion. The noun

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sense of "obstruction" is first recorded 1748. Military sense of "enlistment" is from 1835; verb meaning "to marry" is from 1844. Hitchhike is first attested 1923, from the notion of hitching a sled to a moving vehicle (a sense first recorded 1880) + hike.

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