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- verb Alternative spelling of
hitchhike .
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Examples
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I will hitch-hike south to San Francisco and be found knocking on the door by the wife of Willie Mays.
Flash fiction from a runaway boy David Krancher 2012
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We were all blessed and grateful to hitch-hike this voice that probably flirted with the Heavens, if even for the briefest of moments.
Wajahat Ali: A Mosque Story Wajahat Ali 2011
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We were all blessed and grateful to hitch-hike this voice that probably flirted with the Heavens, if even for the briefest of moments.
Wajahat Ali: A Mosque Story Wajahat Ali 2011
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PS You never told me about attempting to hitch-hike when you were only six! poetinparadise
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It was a common sight in those days to see hippies and bedraggled creatures dressed in costumes of all sorts, and everybody would hitch-hike everywhere.
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I used to hitch-hike a lot in my late teens and early twenties, the longest stretch being a two-day trip from Brussels to Bologna immediately after my finals.
Eight things tchernabyelo 2008
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And one fine afternoon in March, I got this wild hair to hitch-hike up to Eugene and visit him.
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The road beckoned, and so I contacted a friend, Charlie Vidich, and proposed that we hitch-hike to Alaska, it being the most remote place I could think of that we could get to overland without a passport.
Hitch-Hiker's Guide to a Better Society: Bring Back the Thumb! 2009
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Hitch-Hiking from Marin County to Grants Pass, in 1975 yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Hitch-Hiking from Marin County to Grants Pass, in 1975'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: I was living in Marin County, and my freshman roomie and his wife were both Poly Sci profs at the U of O, and I got this wild hair to hitch-hike to Eugene and visit them.'
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Unless the troops are planning to hitch-hike back home a beg for food while unarmored, I'd argue that isn't that good of a plan.
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