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Definition of hitch-hike in English: hitch-hikeverb [no object]Travel by getting free lifts in passing vehicles. 免费搭便车旅行 we hitch-hiked up to Scotland 我们搭便车来到苏格兰。 Example sentencesExamples - She gets around by hitch-hiking, regardless of the danger.
- Earlier in the day it is believed she hitch-hiked from Dongara and also from Badgingarra to Northwest Road.
- We lived in squats and abandoned buildings, didn't really go to school, travelled, hitch-hiked.
- ‘I hitch-hiked down to Cannes to work for Sandy,’ McLean recalled.
- And you're much too good looking to be out hitch-hiking.
- I travelled by foot, by hitch-hiking and by clambering onto the wagons of freight trains.
- Tommy put his thumb out, intent on hitch-hiking.
- She didn't seem to mind that I was hitch-hiking, and for some strange reason, I thought she was running away from something too.
- The future Ambassador recalled how, after then playing at Gleneagles, he hitch-hiked back to Edinburgh.
- I was hitch-hiking home from a disco when I spotted a local man across the road.
- Why not spend the time hitch-hiking around the world having encounters and experiences that can be turned into stories?
- ‘As I was not in the habit of borrowing money, I took to hitch-hiking to travel through Europe,’ he says.
- I once picked up a young student who was hitch-hiking, it must be about 10 years ago.
- My fortysomething self wouldn't do these things, at least not via hitch-hiking and sand in sleeping bags.
- One of the most frightening experiences was hitch-hiking to the Mariisky Theatre to see the Russian ballet.
- He has no concept of the idea of bad people, and once was even spotted hitch-hiking.
- I'm afraid I was never much good at the 20-something spontaneous inter-railing, hitch-hiking, youth-hostelling thing.
- This columnist recalls hitch-hiking to Italy to watch Scotland tackle Costa Rica in the 1990 World Cup finals.
- And, oh, on the way here to Montreal, I just got myself a $132.50 ticket for hitch-hiking.
- The court was told that he had picked up the Kingston Grammar School pupil as he hitch-hiked home.
noun A journey made by hitch-hiking. 免费搭便车的旅行 Example sentencesExamples - Miss Bond's friend took part in the hitch-hike last year and is a representative of the charity this year.
- Kevin is using the ARC as part of his two year world hitch-hike, hoping to visit most of the world's countries using surface travel only.
- Instead of girls playing hockey we have girls smoking fags; instead of midnight feasts we have midnight hitch-hikes to the local pub.
- There were other breaks too, the random hitch-hike through France to northern Spain, the holidays in Greece.
Derivativesnounˈhɪtʃhʌɪkə Locals looked on in surprise as hitch-hikers, cyclists, bikers, cars, vans and minibuses filled up the village square. Example sentencesExamples - I picked up a lone, bedraggled hitch-hiker, who had come all the way from Slovenia to visit the distilleries.
- I suggested that he must see a lot of hitch-hikers on his daily travels from one side of the country to the other.
- However the most eagle-eyed will notice that Bertha has now welcomed on board some eager hitch-hikers.
- Celebrity hitch-hikers apart, the custom of seeking or giving a ‘lift’ has been slow in catching on in the city.
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