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Prior to an increase in prices, say, children under 8 travel for free
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hitchhike
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He spent his Rhodes scholarship money on books, hitchhiking around Britain and trips to London, where he joined anti-war rallies. ▪ I hitchhiked, I traveled on foot, I rode the rails. ▪ I had three hundred and sixty-five miles ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. travel by getting free rides from motorists [syn: hitch , thumb ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
hitchhike \hitch"hike`\ (h[i^]ch"h[imac]k`), v. i. To travel by getting free rides from passing vehicles; as, to hitchhike across the country.
Usage examples of hitchhike.
With supper over things began to move now all over the Company, the few guys with money calling for a taxi to town, the many guys without money walking out to go to the gate on the 242 I 1 highway and hitchhike down, or getting ready to go to the show or to the gym to watch the 35th basketball champs play an exhibition game with the Fort Shafter squad.
At about the same time, another young woman accepted a lift from West when she was hitchhiking to Cheltenham to see her boyfriend.
I hear he often rides in the horsecars with the horses, when some owner or trainer happens to be feeling tenderhearted, or he hitchhikes in automobiles, and sometimes he even walks, for Unser Fritz is still fairly nimble, no matter how old he is.
We had lunch with Connolly at Skyland, and then he left us to hitchhike back to his car at Rockfish Gap and return home.
Their friends said they had planned to hitchhike to the Wenatchee area to find jobs for the apple harvest.
Between Wenatchee and the Old Downey Road, the girls had met someone who looked safe, which, of course, is the terrible danger in hitchhiking.
Even if something unexpected or traumatic happened, why would he have taken a bus or hitchhiked when he could have driven?
Greyhound bus ticket, at least that anybody recalled, but a wild kid like him was more likely to have hitchhiked, anyway.
We hitchhiked the rest of the way with about twenty dollars between us in our pockets.
Carrying a guitar or two, neatly enclosed in a case, and dressed in stylish clothes that we had collected over the years in Paris, we usually hitchhiked, in order to meet more people.
The English put me in the hospital in Magdeburg for a while, but I left of my own accord and hitchhiked back home.
Charisse, drives the Mustang to Lompoc, dumps the body, abandons the car, and then hitchhikes to Venice so he can stab someone else?
According to his notes, you spotted a girl hitchhiking near the Fair Isle off-ramp July 29, 1969.
I had also taken to hitchhiking around town, since my brief tenure as a driver had resulted in the wreck of my longawaited car.
I knew he did not approve of me hitchhiking, but he would never say it.