hitchhike
verb (used without object)
to travel by standing on the side of the road and soliciting rides from passing vehicles.
hitchhiked
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past participleof hitchhike.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof hitchhike.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
hitchhikeverb (used without object)to travel by standing on the side of the road and soliciting rides from passing vehicles.
Example Sentences
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This generation, who as young adults hitchhiked across the country and backpacked through Europe, now is going on safaris and hiking in the Serengeti on guided tours that offer “easy” as well as “challenging” options.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
We hitchhiked into town on the truck that came to pick up the donations.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026
He said he "hitchhiked to get there, and had a tent, a dream, and three cans of Heinz sausages and beans".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025
Feeling remorseful after a year, the younger man wrote a song of apology and hitchhiked back to Kentucky to play it for his father.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
This was the Fowleses’ other awful news: Father had walked or hitchhiked all the way over to the Kikongo mission in an agitated state, bellowing that his guts were on fire with venom.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
