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/hɪtʃ əp/ Listen

verb

Hitch v. t. (past & past part. hitched; pres. part. hitching)

To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter; hitch your wagon to a star.

To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer.

To hitch up.

(a)

To fasten up.

(b)

To pull or raise with a jerk; as, a sailor hitches up his trousers.

(c)

To attach, as a horse, to a vehicle; as, hitch up the gray mare. (Colloq.)

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Etymology of 'Hitch up'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hitch up" Quotes from Famous Books

... excuse; here," said he, throwing him a dollar, "hitch up as quick as possible, and take me there ...

— Minnie's Sacrifice • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

... I'll go with ye an' take some milk. Here, Danny!" she cried, and directly her husband, a long, thin, sun-burnt, sandy-headed man, appeared, and to him she told, in a few words, our story, and ordered him to hitch up the cart and be ready to take our trunk and the basket up to Dutton's ...

— Rudder Grange • Frank R. Stockton

... interference, and while these suggestions were being discussed a company of United States troops suddenly appeared. With very little explanation they arrested every man in the colony for treason and conspiracy, and proceeded to drive the colonists out of the country. The men were compelled to hitch up their horses, and, succumbing to force of numbers, the colonists sadly and wearily advanced to Fort Reno, where they were turned over to the authorities. After being kept in confinement for five days they were released, and told to get back into Kansas as rapidly ...

— My Native Land • James Cox

... and he had given the Trooper such little shelter and food as the latter had stopped to take during his rapid work of investigation. But now he was asked to perform a service that he would gladly have refused; he was asked to hitch up a horse and wagon and to drive the three Troopers to the very vicinity of Israel ...

— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various

... thinks he's in love with this Richie woman," Martha went on—but William made his escape. He had to go and hitch up, he said. ...

— The Awakening of Helena Richie • Margaret Deland