I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hitch a ride (= get a free ride from a passing vehicle )
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He hitched a ride to Denver on a truck.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
lift
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Are you hitching lifts or what?
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Because I am there, we hitch a lift on a Landrover.
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A standard rumour was that some one the story-teller knew personally had been hitching a lift one dark night.
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They then had to hitch a lift back to the cars.
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Ricky, in fact, hitched a lift with a lorry driver heading for Calais.
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Marc was the one who hitched a lift .
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McCready found a truck driver heading south, explained that his car had broken down and hitched a lift six miles south.
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Maybe he could hitch a lift .
ride
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Unable to sleep, I hitched a ride up the road to the start.
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We had hitched a ride with an armored unit, 6 Patton tanks.
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He worked on farms to pay for food and hitched a ride wherever he could.
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The soldier hitched a ride on the boat with the youngest princess and her prince.
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Edward paddled across the river to the highway, hitched a ride into town and bought back beer.
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He'd hitched a ride from a 1950s hearse.
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I got out on the highway and hitched a ride at once.
■ VERB
get
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We watched six couples getting hitched in the tranquil setting of the garden gazebo before having their pictures taken on the beach.
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Think about it: How old were your parents when they got hitched ?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
technical problem/hitch
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At times it appears large numbers of these new or infrequent voters were confounded by technical problems in the ballot.
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Design implies change and improvement, solving technical problems and meeting new needs.
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He had also to tackle the technical problems of bringing two curriculum systems into one entity.
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However, some technical problems exist.
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In other words, it is to argue that the problem is a technical problem which admits of a technical solution.
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It is open to any interested individual and meets regularly to discuss operational and near-term technical problems of the Internet.
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Politics becomes an issue of solving the technical problems of advancing capitalism rather than the realization of practical goals.
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The principal technical problems which had to be resolved were breakage due to heavy-duty service and abuse.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Baseball also has become an endless exercise in hitching, pulling and staring in the batter's box and on the mound.
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Bees and wasps hitch their fore and hind wings together with hooks to make, in effect, a single surface.
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Farrelly rented a house nearby and she would play truant, hitching the eight miles there to rehearse.
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He was unsteady, but he managed to hitch up his jeans and zip them.
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On Sunday, Ellingwood hitched up the wagon.
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The soldier hitched a ride on the boat with the youngest princess and her prince.
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The women, who wore sweaters under their low-cut dresses, hitched their clothes and staggered with their partners.
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To hitch hike right round the coast of Ireland and to write a book about his experiences.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
technical
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Regardless of technical hitches Pathfinders in Space was judged a great success, leading to a second series being commissioned in 1960.
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However, Rita calmly carried on in spite of this rather inconvenient technical hitch .
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These technical hitches failed to disguise the quality of the music.
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However, technical hitches plagued the first night.
■ VERB
go
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The operation had not gone without hitches because adequate amphibious shipping and transport aircraft were not yet available.
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They also went through without a hitch .
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But the display went off without a hitch .
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The Boozebuster went off without a hitch .
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But like anchorman Trevor McDonald, she gave a faultless performance and everything went without a hitch .
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Everything had gone without a hitch .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a trailer hitch
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Nelson refused to comment on reports of a last-minute hitch in the negotiations.
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The parade went off without a hitch , despite concern about protestors.
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The plan has a hitch : drilling holes for the owls in the trees will kill the trees.
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The shuttle landed without a hitch at Edwards Air Force Base.
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There's been a slight technical hitch , so we'll have to postpone the video until later.
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There was a hitch - about half the employees did not want to move to a different city.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And just as the deal started coming together, the first hitch came: Original drummer Dusty Denham left.
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Come Sunday you're more withdrawn and reticent so any hassle or hitch will prove too much to cope with.
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Organic hitch Recently my local baker told me the stoneground organic loaf I was buying would be the last.
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That was the plan if there was a hitch .
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The operation had not gone without hitches because adequate amphibious shipping and transport aircraft were not yet available.
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This tiny hitch would be discovered only five weeks later, when the first steel columns arrived on site.