Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hitchhike
Participle: hitchhiked
Gerund: hitchhiking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | hitchhike |
| you | hitchhike |
| he;she;it | hitchhikes |
| we | hitchhike |
| you | hitchhike |
| they | hitchhike |
Perfect
| I | have hitchhiked |
| you | have hitchhiked |
| he;she;it | has hitchhiked |
| we | have hitchhiked |
| you | have hitchhiked |
| they | have hitchhiked |
Past
| I | hitchhiked |
| you | hitchhiked |
| he;she;it | hitchhiked |
| we | hitchhiked |
| you | hitchhiked |
| they | hitchhiked |
Pluperfect
| I | had hitchhiked |
| you | had hitchhiked |
| he;she;it | had hitchhiked |
| we | had hitchhiked |
| you | had hitchhiked |
| they | had hitchhiked |
Future
| I | will hitchhike |
| you | will hitchhike |
| he;she;it | will hitchhike |
| we | will hitchhike |
| you | will hitchhike |
| they | will hitchhike |
Future Perfect
| I | will have hitchhiked |
| you | will have hitchhiked |
| he;she;it | will have hitchhiked |
| we | will have hitchhiked |
| you | will have hitchhiked |
| they | will have hitchhiked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hitchhike |
| you | hitchhike |
| he;she;it | hitchhike |
| we | hitchhike |
| you | hitchhike |
| they | hitchhike |
Perfect
| I | have hitchhiked |
| you | have hitchhiked |
| he;she;it | have hitchhiked |
| we | have hitchhiked |
| you | have hitchhiked |
| they | have hitchhiked |
Imperfect
| I | hitchhiked |
| you | hitchhiked |
| he;she;it | hitchhiked |
| we | hitchhiked |
| you | hitchhiked |
| they | hitchhiked |
Pluperfect
| I | had hitchhiked |
| you | had hitchhiked |
| he;she;it | had hitchhiked |
| we | had hitchhiked |
| you | had hitchhiked |
| they | had hitchhiked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hitchhike |
| you | would hitchhike |
| he;she;it | would hitchhike |
| we | would hitchhike |
| you | would hitchhike |
| they | would hitchhike |
Perfect
| I | would have hitchhiked |
| you | would have hitchhiked |
| he;she;it | would have hitchhiked |
| we | would have hitchhiked |
| you | would have hitchhiked |
| they | would have hitchhiked |
Imperative
| you | hitchhike |
| we | Let's hitchhike |
| you | hitchhike |
Verbs conjugated like 'hitchhike'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'hitchhike'
hitch-hike,
hitch,
hitchel,
matchmake,
out-hike,
outhike,
pitchpole,
archaise,
archaize,
archive,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From hitch + hike.
Sample Sentences
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She made a great many photographs, and hitchhiked her way back to Lanchow again, and thence to Peking. [1953, Pearl Buck, “Preface”, in Irene Vongehr Vincent, The Sacred Oasis: Caves of the Thousand Buddhas Tun Huang, University of Chicago Press, page x:]
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Holly came from Miami, F-L-A / Hitchhiked her way across the U.S.A. [1972, Lou Reed, “Walk on the Wild Side”, in Transformer:]
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Tens of thousands of people had come to Washington the night before. They hitchhiked. They hopped on trains. They came in caravans of buses, through the night. [2020, Jill Lepore, “The Things They Carried” (chapter 11), in If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, Liveright Publishing Corporation, page 251:]
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Pamela hitchhiked a ride to New York.
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“I’m not goin’ to tell you what happened to me,” Asey said, “from the time I found her till I finally managed to hitchhike a ride to town. I want to forget that period of my life. […]” [1945, Phoebe Atwood Taylor, Proof of the Pudding, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, page 42:]
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In genetic hitchhiking, a gene is propagated because it occurs in conjunction with a favourable mutation.
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In cultural hitchhiking, a cultural trait spreads with a technologically advanced population.
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We are constantly being exposed to fungi, whether by picking up spores on our skin or eating food on which fungi are hitchhiking. Most of them won’t take up residence in our bodies. [2022 September 29, Carl Zimmer, “A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes”, in The New York Times:]