hitchhike

See also: hitch-hike

English

Etymology

From hitch +‎ hike.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪtʃhaɪk/

• Audio (US)

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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
• 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
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ճանապարհորդել ավտոստոպով (čanaparhordel avtostopov)
• Basque: ^{(please verify)} autostop egin
• Breton: c'hoari biz-meud (br)
• Bulgarian: пътувам на автостоп (pǎtuvam na avtostop)
• Catalan: fer autoestop
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: stopovat (cs)
• Danish: tomle, blaffe
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} liften (nl), (Belgium) ^{(please verify)} autostop doen
• Esperanto: petveturi
• Estonian: hääletama
• Faroese: tumla
• Finnish: liftata (fi)
• French: ^{(please verify)} faire de l'autostop , ^{(please verify)} faire du stop
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: trampen (de), per Anhalter fahren
• Greek: κάνω οτοστόπ (káno otostóp)
• Hebrew: תָּפַס טְרֶמְפּ‎‎ (tafás trémp), נָסַע בְּטְרֶמְפּ‎‎ (nasá b'trémp)
• Hungarian: stoppol (hu), stoppal megy, autóstoppal megy
• Icelandic: fara á puttanum
• Ido: autostopar (io)

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} fare l'autostop
• Japanese: ヒッチハイクする (hitchihaiku-suru)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: ໂບກລົດ (bōk lot)
• Lithuanian: tranzuoti, keliauti autostopu
• Macedonian: стопира (stopíra), автостопира (avtostopíra)
• Mongolian: замын машинд дайгдах (zamyn mašind dajgdah)
• Norwegian: å haike
• Persian: اتواستپ کردن‎‎ (oto-estop kardan)
• Polish: jechać autostopem, podróżować autostopem
• Portuguese: pedir carona (Brazil), pedir boleia (Portugal)
• Romanian: face autostopul
• Russian: голосова́ть (ru) impf (golosovátʹ), проголосова́ть (ru) pf (progolosovátʹ) (lit.: vote), путеше́ствовать автосто́пом (putešéstvovatʹ avtostópom) (see: автостоп)
• Scottish Gaelic: siubhail air an òrdaig
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: stopirati (sh)

• Slovak: ísť autostopom
• Slovene: štopati
• Spanish: (Colombia) ^{(please verify)} echar dedo , (especially Spain) ^{(please verify)} hacer autostop, (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Spain, Uruguay) ^{(please verify)} hacer dedo, (Ecuador) ^{(please verify)} jalar dedo, (Mexico, El Salvador) ^{(please verify)} pedir aventón , (Dominican Republic) ^{(please verify)} pedir bola , (Panama) ^{(please verify)} pedir bote , (Cuba) ^{(please verify)} pedir botella, (Colombian Caribbean Coast) ^{(please verify)} pedir chance, (Venezuela) ^{(please verify)} pedir cola, (Guatemala, Honduras) ^{(please verify)} pedir jalón , (Panama) ^{(please verify)} pedir lift , (Puerto Rico) ^{(please verify)} pedir pon , (Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua) ^{(please verify)} pedir raid , (Costa Rica - 'ride' pronounced 'raid') ^{(please verify)} pedir ride , (Peru) ^{(please verify)} tirar dedo
• Swedish: lifta (sv)
• Thai: โบกรถ (bòok-rót)
• Turkish: otostop çekmek
• Vietnamese: vẫy nhờ xe

See also

• hitchhiker