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hitch English

Meaning hitch meaning

What does hitch mean?
Definitions in simple English

hitch Noun

— A hitch is a device that connects a trailer or wagon to the thing pulling it.

hitch Verb

— If you hitch something, you pull it with a jerk. John hitched up his shorts and ran. — If you hitch something to something else, you attach or fasten them together. He hitched a wagon to his truck. — If you get hitched, you get married.

hitch

— verb (= catch) to hook or entangle One foot caught in the stirrup — noun (= enlistment) a period of time spent in military service — verb (= buck) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched the yung filly bucked — verb (= hobble) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury The old woman hobbles down to the store every day — verb connect to a vehicle hitch the trailer to the car — noun a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot — noun a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls — noun the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg — noun (= hang-up) an unforeseen obstacle — verb (= hitchhike) travel by getting free rides from motorists — noun (= hindrance) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome — noun (= arrest, check, halt, stay, stop) the state of inactivity following an interruption the negotiations were in arrest held them in check during the halt he got some lunch the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow he spent the entire stop in his seat

Synonyms hitch synonyms

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hitch English » English

catch hobble snag limp tie fasten trouble problem hook hindrance obstacle knot jerk hitchhike thumb stoppage rub preventative obstruction moor kink interference impediment gimp fetter enlistment encumbrance difficulty buck tug trammel tow tour of duty tour term of enlistment stop stick stay stake secure preventive matter knit join interruption incumbrance hinderance hassle harness hang-up

Topics hitch topics

What do people use hitch to talk about?
Physical actions Arrange

Tie
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Physical actions Arrange

Join, attach

Conjugation hitch conjugation

How do you conjugate hitch?

hitch · verb

Examples hitch examples

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Simple sentences

Tom is hoping that he can hitch a ride to Boston.
As soon as our manager got off our backs, everything started to go off without a hitch.
It went without a hitch.
Everything worked without a hitch.

Movie subtitles

Transplants went off without a hitch.
There's just one hitch.
There was just one hitch.
Uh, here. Hitch 'em up.
What's the hitch?
I'm terribly sorry to have kept you waiting but there's been a slight hitch in the proceedings.
Here, hitch this horse up.
I just happened to think of Chicago because. that's a little better than halfway and I can easily hitch a ride out of there.
All right, hitch up. On your way.
Let's hitch up a horse and not tell anyone.
Bob, you ain't throwing a half hitch on a pack mule.
This is a 12-mule hitch on a bad mountain road. I know, I know.
You ain't aiming to get a hitch?
As to getting married, there's one hitch.
I'll hitch up Ol' Rhody and we'll see if we can get out of here.
There's only one hitch. - Hitch?
A small hitch. -Of course.
So the children, hitch up his bride, that they may not return to never see him again.
After you get your training, some of you'll do a hitch in this corral.
If there's no hitch, we go Tuesday.
Then hitch up your britches, man, and stop the bleeding.
I'll hitch another ride.
I'll hitch a ride where I don't have to tell my life history.
All right, hitch up.
But there's a little hitch.
There's only one hitch.
Hitch?
I have plenty of places to hitch to. Lots of guys do.
Hitch it up yourself.
PAUL: Yeah, but there was just one hitch.
One more hitch, and you'll be a millionaire.
Of course, there's a hitch.
It's a hitch.

News and current affairs

Yet, there is a hitch: Romania is due to join the EU in 2007, and with the PRM in the government but branded as an extremist, anti-Semitic party, the integration process could be derailed.
But there is a hitch: the gas deals amplify a significant bilateral trade imbalance, with Russia supplying raw materials to China and importing Chinese manufactures.
In 1961, as a group of former French generals revolted in French Algeria, an atomic-bomb test in the Sahara went off without a hitch.
It cannot hitch a ride on gold, the way America did a century ago.

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