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
To try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road. Generally by either sticking out ones thumb or holding a sign with ones stated destination
To be carried along with something else, for example Genetic Hitchhiking where a gene is propagated because it occurs in conjunction with a favourable mutation, or Cultural Hitchhiking where a cultural trait spreads with a technologically advanced population
If you hitchhike, you travel by getting lifts from passing vehicles without paying. Neff hitchhiked to New York during his Christmas vacation They had an eighty-mile journey and decided to hitch-hike + hitchhiker hitchhikers hitch·hiker On my way to Vancouver one Friday night I picked up a hitchhiker. to travel to places by getting free rides from drivers of passing cars hitchhike around/to/across etc