Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To go on an extended walk for pleasure or exercise.
- intransitive verb To rise, especially to rise upward out of place.
- intransitive verb To increase or raise in amount, especially abruptly.
- intransitive verb To pull or raise with a sudden motion; hitch.
- intransitive verb Football To snap (the ball).
- noun A long walk or march.
- noun An often abrupt increase or rise.
- idiom (take a hike) To leave because one's presence is unwanted. Often used in the imperative.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To thrust; push; punch or gore with the horns.
- To toss up and down; swing; jolt.
- To lift out with a sharp instrument; move with a jerk; pull; raise; lift.
- To snatch away; run off with.
- To dismiss peremptorily.
- To move suddenly or hastily; go away; walk off; decamp.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Dial. or Colloq. To hike one's self; specif., to go with exertion or effort; to tramp; to march laboriously.
- intransitive verb to take a long walk, especially for pleasure or exercise.
- noun The act of hiking.
- noun A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure or exercise; a tramp; a march.
- noun an increase in cost, rate, etc..
- noun the amount a salary is increased.
- transitive verb Dial. or Colloq. To move with a swing, toss, throw, jerk, or the like.
- transitive verb To raise with a quick movement.
- transitive verb To raise (a price) quickly or significantly in a single step.
- transitive verb (Football) To pass (the ball) from the center to the quarterback at the start of the play; to
snap (the ball).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A long walk.
- noun An abrupt increase.
- noun American football The
snap of the ball to start a play. - noun A command to a dog sled team, given by a
musher - verb To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.
- verb To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
- verb American football To
snap the ball to start a play. - verb nautical To lean out to the
windward side of a sailboat in order tocounterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails. - verb To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the amount a salary is increased
- noun an increase in cost
- noun a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
- verb increase
- verb walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This hike is also on those who come to Banyo's itinerary (advance warning!)
January 15, 2008 Anna 2009
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This hike is also on those who come to Banyo's itinerary (advance warning!)
Archive 2009-01-01 Anna 2009
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That Americans are concerned about a rush to what he calls hike taxes on small businesses, cut Medicare benefits, and add trillions of dollars to more government spending and debt.
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A 25% hike is significant, but that's what happens when you hold the cost for so long.
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Initially all goes well, though the days-long hike is strenuous.
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When the lakes are a 2 mile hike from the closest two-track trail a 10 '- 12' solo canoe of kevlar weighing in at under 30 pounds is the best bet.
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When the lakes are a 2 mile hike from the closest two-track trail a 10 '- 12' solo canoe of kevlar weighing in at under 30 pounds is the best bet.
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And this year a 32% fee hike is proposed at the University of California at Berkeley, (a proposal that triggered the current student movement there) while the school pays its football coach $2.8 million a year, and is just completing a $400 million renovation of the football stadium.
Class Conflict 2010
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The 93 tax hike is irrelevant to the macro economic history of the age.
Matthew Yglesias » The Gingrich Doctrine and the 21st Century 2009
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The unpredictability of a short-term hike could lead Wall Street to downgrade Treasury debt, leading to higher interest rates, Obama said.
When it comes to the debt limit, all raises are temporary 2011
zanshin commented on the word hike
When crewing on a small (or even large, I suppose) sailboat, the act of hiking is using the weight of the crew as movable ballast to offset the heeling of the craft.
December 15, 2006
uselessness commented on the word hike
Also, a long walk. :-)
December 15, 2006
alejinha commented on the word hike
Hike prices up mean to walk up the prices.
Original meaning is to Hike a hill.
September 20, 2010
bilby commented on the word hike
In the stats there's a hike spike in early 1990s.
September 20, 2010