noun
Meaning 1
A person or thing that hitchhikes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
hitchhiker
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɪtʃˌhaɪkə/
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General-American: /ˈhɪtʃˌhaɪkɚ/
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CMU ARPABET: HH IH1 CH HH AY2 K ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
An item attached to a travel bug and hidden in a geocache to be found and transported to other caches or around the world.
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noun
Meaning 3
A dance move in which the dancer mimics the motions of someone thumbing a ride.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: preceded by a definite article
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noun
Meaning 4
A bur that attaches and clings to clothing, or a bur-bearing plant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
An advertisement at the end of a program.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: advertising, broadcasting, business, marketing, media, radio
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noun
Meaning 6
a person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: passenger, rider
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English hitchhike Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English hitchhiker From hitchhike + -er.
Across languages
Translations
53 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: ավտոստոպով ճամփորդող (avtostopov čampʻordoġ) — a person who hitchhikes
- Catalan: autoestopista — a person who hitchhikes
- Chinese Mandarin: 搭車者 /搭车者 (dāchēzhě) — a person who hitchhikes
- Chinese Mandarin: 搭車人 /搭车人 (dāchērén) — a person who hitchhikes
- Chinese Mandarin: 搭車的 /搭车的 (dāchē de) — a person who hitchhikes
- Czech: stopař — a person who hitchhikes
- Czech: stopařka — a person who hitchhikes
- Danish: tomler — a person who hitchhikes
- Danish: blaffer — a person who hitchhikes
- Dutch: lifter — a person who hitchhikes
- Dutch: liftster — a person who hitchhikes
- Esperanto: petveturisto — a person who hitchhikes
- Finnish: peukalokyytiläinen — a person who hitchhikes
- Finnish: liftari — a person who hitchhikes
- French: autostoppeur — a person who hitchhikes
- French: pouceux — a person who hitchhikes
- Galician: autostopista — a person who hitchhikes
- Georgian: მოგზაური (mogzauri) — a person who hitchhikes
- German: Anhalter — a person who hitchhikes
- German: Tramper — a person who hitchhikes
- Greek: άτομο που ταξιδεύει με οτοστόπ (átomo pou taxidévei me otostóp) — a person who hitchhikes
- Hungarian: stoppos — a person who hitchhikes
- Ido: autostopero — a person who hitchhikes
- Italian: autostoppista — a person who hitchhikes
- Italian: gitante — a person who hitchhikes
- Italian: turista — a person who hitchhikes
- Japanese: ヒッチハイクする人 (hitchihaiku suru hito) — a person who hitchhikes
- Latvian: īkšķotājs — a person who hitchhikes
- Latvian: īkšķotāja — a person who hitchhikes
- Macedonian: автосто́пер (avtostóper) — a person who hitchhikes
- Macedonian: автосто́перка (avtostóperka) — a person who hitchhikes
- Malay: pengembara tumpang — a person who hitchhikes
- Mongolian: замын машинд дайгдаж яваа хүн (zamyn mašind dajgdaž javaa xün) — a person who hitchhikes
- Norwegian Bokmål: haiker — a person who hitchhikes
- Norwegian Nynorsk: haikar — a person who hitchhikes
- Polish: autostopowicz — a person who hitchhikes
- Polish: autostopowiczka — a person who hitchhikes
- Portuguese: caroneiro — a person who hitchhikes
- Romanian: autostopist — a person who hitchhikes
- Romanian: autostopistă — a person who hitchhikes
- Russian: автосто́пщик (avtostópščik) — a person who hitchhikes
- Russian: автосто́пщица (avtostópščica) — a person who hitchhikes
- Russian: путеше́ствующий автосто́пом (putešéstvujuščij avtostópom) — a person who hitchhikes
- Russian: путеше́ствующая автосто́пом (putešéstvujuščaja avtostópom) — a person who hitchhikes
- Slovak: autostopár — a person who hitchhikes
- Spanish: autoestopista — a person who hitchhikes
- Spanish: autostopista — a person who hitchhikes
- Swedish: liftare — a person who hitchhikes
- Tamil: கெஞ்சுப்பயணி (keñcuppayaṇi) — a person who hitchhikes
- Turkish: otostopçu — a person who hitchhikes
- Ukrainian: автосто́пщик (avtostópščyk) — a person who hitchhikes
- Ukrainian: автосто́пщиця (avtostópščycja) — a person who hitchhikes
- Vietnamese: người xin có giang — a person who hitchhikes
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