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thumb a ride
(redirected from hitch a ride)

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thumb a ride and hitch a ride
to get a ride from a passing motorist; to make a sign with one's thumb that indicates to passing drivers that one is asking for a ride. My car broke down on the highway, and I had to thumb a ride to get back to town. Sometimes it's dangerous to hitch a ride with a stranger.
See also: ride, thumb


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Because mice colonise homes and hitch a ride in cargo, the differentiated strains are also a useful historical pointer, showing where humans ventured and where they settled, they argue.
Nevertheless, Nat and his nerd friends IQ (Philip Daniel Bolden) and the chunky Scooter (David Gore) decide they want to be "astro-nuts" and hitch a ride with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
As dusk fell on Gori, two old ladies were trying to hitch a ride out; a fleet of fire engines arrived.
 
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