thumb a ride
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Right now, European travelers hoping to get to Monrovia or Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown must squeeze on to services operated by Brussels Airlines and Royal Air Maroc, or thumb a ride on a military jet.
From Time ● Oct. 8, 2014
“We’re going to Highway Forty and thumb a ride to Tiburon, South Carolina. At least we’re gonna try.”
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
"We might be able to thumb a ride with the Navy."
From A Yankee Flier in Italy by Rutherford George Montgomery
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