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  • verb Present participle of hitchhike.

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Examples

  • As I moved east I found that people were increasingly easy with the idea of hitchhiking and providing lifts and not just lifts – a place to stay, a meal, a trip to the Dead Sea deluxe spa!

    Is hitchhiking a thing of the past? 2011

  • So I had a pretty uneventful trip back to Portland; if you can ever call hitchhiking uneventful.

    Progressive U - The new media voice for students 2009

  • Also known as hitchhiking in other parts of the world, in Israel this cultural mainstay is almost an informal carpool system.

    English-writing Israeli-bloggers 2009

  • On the positive side, some people may be more inclined to donate if they think it’s a way of living on after death in a real sense although the idea of hitchhiking in someone else’s body, influencing their lives, warping their personalities to be more like theirs is hard to see in anything other than a sinister light.

    Archive 2009-06-01 TK 2009

  • On the positive side, some people may be more inclined to donate if they think it’s a way of living on after death in a real sense although the idea of hitchhiking in someone else’s body, influencing their lives, warping their personalities to be more like theirs is hard to see in anything other than a sinister light.

    Human Remains TK 2009

  • And the emphasis on 'hitchhiking' to get out of here is kinda like people saying that they'll do just about anything to leave.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • And the emphasis on 'hitchhiking' to get out of here is kinda like people saying that they'll do just about anything to leave.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • And the emphasis on 'hitchhiking' to get out of here is kinda like people saying that they'll do just about anything to leave.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • And the emphasis on 'hitchhiking' to get out of here is kinda like people saying that they'll do just about anything to leave.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • We demonstrate kDNA minicircle sequences concentrated within LINEs, and multiple integration events mobilizing, and thus 'hitchhiking', to other chromosomes, resulting in disruption of coding regions and gene loss.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mariana M. Hecht et al. 2010

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