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hitchhike

 verb
     
Related topics: Motor Vehicles
hitch‧hike also hitch [intransitive]
TTC to travel to places by getting free rides from drivers of passing cars
hitchhike around/to/across etc
She spent her gap year hitchhiking around the world.
—hitchhiker noun [countable]
I picked up a hitchhiker on our way back.
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