hitchhike

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road, generally by either sticking out one's finger or thumb or holding a sign with one's stated destination.

   “She made a great many photographs, and hitchhiked her way back to Lanchow again, and thence to Peking.”

2. fiil To try to get (a ride) in this manner.

   “Pamela hitchhiked a ride to New York.”

3. fiil To be carried along with something else.

   “In genetic hitchhiking, a gene is propagated because it occurs in conjunction with a favourable mutation.”

4. isim A journey made by hitchhiking.
5. isim Alternative form of hitchhiker (“advertisement at the end of a programme”).

   “There are just too many diseases for each to have its own special organization, complete with radio hitchhikes, sponsored ads, expensive brochures, pledge cards, team captains and collection envelopes.”