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Hitch   /hɪtʃ/   Listen
Hitch

noun
1.
A period of time spent in military service.  Synonyms: duty tour, enlistment, term of enlistment, tour, tour of duty.
2.
The state of inactivity following an interruption.  Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, stay, stop, stoppage.  "Held them in check" , "During the halt he got some lunch" , "The momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow" , "He spent the entire stop in his seat"
3.
An unforeseen obstacle.  Synonyms: hang-up, rub, snag.
4.
A connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls.
5.
A knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot.
6.
Any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome.  Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive.
7.
The uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg.  Synonyms: hobble, limp.
verb
(past & past part. hitched; pres. part. hitching)
1.
To hook or entangle.  Synonym: catch.  Antonym: unhitch.
2.
Walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury.  Synonyms: gimp, hobble, limp.
3.
Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched.  Synonyms: buck, jerk.
4.
Travel by getting free rides from motorists.  Synonyms: hitchhike, thumb.
5.
Connect to a vehicle:.



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"Hitch" Quotes from Famous Books



... monopoly of the news until the Press was started, on the 1st of January, 1861. The Press made arrangements with Mr. Winslow for full telegraphic dispatches, but there was another hitch in the spring of 1861 and for some time the Press had to obtain its telegraph from proof sheets of the St. Anthony Falls News, a paper published in what is now East Minneapolis. Gov. Marshall was very much exercised at being compelled to go to ...
— Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul • Frank Moore
... or rather enough burlap from which to fashion a square of the desired size, Ezekiel Bailey framed up the fabric as the good old grandmas used to hitch up quilts at a quilting bee, the only difference being that the burlap was framed or stretched over a table made of planed boards large enough for the full spread of the burlap. With paint and brush he began his work. The first coat was a tiller; the next, a thicker one, gave body to the cloth, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 • Various
... a moment, then deferentially suggested that he should be given the money, having received which, the little staircase swallowed up his tall, thin body again. It was all like playing at keeping restaurant, only everything worked without a hitch, which would never have happened if it had really been ...
— Sally Bishop - A Romance • E. Temple Thurston
... I could recollect whom he resembles, really," said Ernest Wilton, to give a turn to the conversation, which had got into such an unpleasant hitch. "There is nothing so worrying as to try and puzzle over a face which you seem to remember and ...
— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson
... proprietor of a performing dog on the vaudeville stage when the tyke has just pulled off his trick without a hitch. I had betted on Jeeves all along, and I had known that he wouldn't let me down. It beats me sometimes why a man with his genius is satisfied to hang around pressing my clothes and whatnot. If I had half Jeeves's brain, I should have ...
— My Man Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse


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