hitchhike

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhɪtʃhaɪk/

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Verb

hitchhike (third-person singular simple present hitchhikes, present participle hitchhiking, simple past and past participle hitchhiked)

1. 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.
2. To be carried along with something else, for example Genetic Hitchhiking where a gene is propagated because it occurs in conjunction with a favourable mutation, or Cultural Hitchhiking where a cultural trait spreads with a technologically advanced population.

Synonyms

• hitch a ride
• hitch
• thumb a lift (UK)
• thumb a ride (US)

Translations

to try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: autostop egin (eu)
• Breton: c'hoari biz-meud (br)
• Catalan: fer autoestop (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 搭便車 (cmn), 搭便车 (cmn) (dābiànchē), 順風車 (cmn), 顺风车 (cmn) (shùnfēngchē), 搭車 (cmn), 搭车 (cmn) (dāchē)

• Croatian: stopirati
• Czech: stopovat (cs)
• Danish: tomle (da), blaffe (da)
• Dutch: liften, autostop doen (Belgium)
• Esperanto: petveturi (eo)
• Estonian: hääletama (et)
• Faroese: tumla (fo)
• Finnish: matkustaa peukalokyydillä, pyytää peukalokyytiä, liftata (slang)
• French: faire de l'autostop, faire du stop
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: trampen (de), per Anhalter fahren (de)
• Greek: κάνω οτοστόπ (el) (káno otostóp)
• Hungarian: stoppol, stoppal megy, autóstoppal megy
• Icelandic: fara á puttanum (is)

• Italian: fare l'autostop
• Japanese: ヒッチハイクする (ja) (hitchihaiku-suru)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: tranzuoti (lt), keliauti autostopu (lt)
• Macedonian: стопира (mk) (stopíra), автостопира (mk) (avtostopíra)
• Norwegian: å haike
• Polish: jechać autostopem, podróżować autostopem
• Portuguese: pedir carona (Brazil), pedir boleia (Portugal)
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: голосовать (ru) (golosovát’) impf., проголосовать (ru) (progolosovát’) pf. (lit.: vote), путешествовать автостопом (ru) (putešéstvovat’ avtostópom) (see: автостоп)
• Slovak: ísť autostopom (sk)
• Slovene: štopati
• Spanish: echar dedo (Colombia), hacer autostop (especially Spain), hacer dedo (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Spain, Uruguay), jalar dedo (Ecuador), pedir aventón (Mexico, El Salvador), pedir bola (Dominican Republic), pedir bote (Panama), pedir botella (Cuba), pedir chance (Colombian Atlantic Coast), pedir cola (Venezuela), pedir jalón (Guatemala, Honduras), pedir lift (Panama), pedir pon (Puerto Rico), pedir raid (Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua), pedir ride (Costa Rica - 'ride' pronounced 'raid'), tirar dedo (Peru)
• Swedish: lifta
• Turkish: otostop çekmek (tr)

See also

• hitchhiker