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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hitchhike.

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Examples

  • And so this guy Arthur hitchhikes his way off the dying planet with his friend, Ford, and they go on a series of madcap and absurd adventures through space and time, with various characters, including the two-headed president of the galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox, and a very pretty young lady, who is also an astro-physicist, called Trillian.

    Matthew Peterson interviews Eoin Colfer 2010

  • Part two concerns Amalfitano, whose wild wife, Lola, has left him to return to Europe where she sleeps around and hitchhikes throughout the continent.

    Looking for Archimboldi 2009

  • She leaves, he buries Pia's body and cashes his money out and up and leaves, heading for Vegas, then sells his car and hitchhikes.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Softer - Paolo Bacigalupi Blue Tyson 2010

  • Of course she takes Adaleen's bribe money, and of course she hitchhikes to L.A. to push her demo tape.

    Mark Blankenship: The Big Review: Big Love Season 3, Ep. 4 (Spoilers) 2009

  • Reminds me of that scene in Borat where he hitchhikes with the RV full of southern frat boys.

    New McCain Web Ad: "Hot Chicks Dig Obama" 2009

  • The hapless guy who falls for this beauty is the wandering drifter Frank Chambers John Garfield, a shiftless guy who hitchhikes from town to town and job to job.

    The Postman Always Rings Twice Ed Howard 2009

  • Take her role in this little blast of comic pulp craziness, Freeway, in which she plays the trashy daughter of a prostitute who hitchhikes her way to grandma's house.

    Kim Morgan: Twilight and Screen's Troubled Teenage Girls 2008

  • She hitchhikes to Las Vegas to become a showgirl-the "legitimate" kind, who dance topless in elaborate revues at the big casinos -- only to become a lap dancer, grinding naked in men's laps in a sleazy strip club.

    Base Instinct 2008

  • We see a young Dylan as a young black boy who hitchhikes across the country expounding on the blues.

    Ray reviews I’M NOT THERE | Obsessed With Film 2008

  • Episode to Watch: In "Dorvid Days," Wain hitchhikes from NYC to LA to rendezvous with his online love only to be upstaged by her wheelchair-bound Stephen Hawking-esque brother (played by raspy Superbad-ass Jonah Hill).

    The Web-to-TV Stars Human Giant Predict the Next Web-to-TV Stars Sonia Zjawinski 2008

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