verb (used without object), hitch·hiked, hitch·hik·ing.
- to travel by standing on the side of the road and soliciting rides from passing vehicles.
verb (used with object), hitch·hiked, hitch·hik·ing.
- to ask for or get (a ride) by hitchhiking.
noun
- an act or instance of hitchhiking.
verb
- (intr) to travel by obtaining free lifts in motor vehicles
1921 (n.), 1923 (v.), from hitch, from the notion of hitching a sled to a moving vehicle (a sense first recorded 1880) + hike. Related: Hitchhiked; hitchhiking. Hitchhiker attested from 1927.