different between hitchhiker vs hike

English

Alternative forms

• hitch-hiker

Etymology

From hitchhike +? -er.

Noun

hitchhiker (plural hitchhikers)

1. A person or thing that hitchhikes.
2. An item attached to a travel bug and hidden in a geocache to be found and transported to other caches or around the world.
3. (preceded by definite article) A dance move in which the dancer mimics the motions of someone thumbing a ride.
4. (informal, botany) A bur that attaches and clings to clothing, or a bur-bearing plant.
5. (radio, advertising) An advertisement at the end of a programme.

   Coordinate term: cowcatcher

   • 1945, Charles Harold Sandage, Radio Advertising for Retailers (page 186)

     […] and networks have taken steps to modify or eliminate the bunching of spots and commercials between programs which results from the use of hitchhikers and cowcatchers.

Translations

English

Etymology

From English dialectal hyke (“to walk vigorously”), probably a Northern form of hitch, from Middle English hytchen, hichen, icchen (“to move, jerk, stir”). Cognate with Scots hyke (“to move with a jerk”), dialectal German hicken (“to hobble, walk with a limp”), Danish hinke (“to hop”). More at hick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Noun

hike (plural hikes)

1. A long walk.
2. An abrupt increase.

   The tenants were not happy with the rent hike.

3. (American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.
4. A sharp upward tug to raise something.
   • 2016, Erik Schubach, The Hollow

     She gave a cute hike of her skirt as she spun and almost sauntered down the stairs.

Translations

Verb

hike (third-person singular simple present hikes, present participle hiking, simple past and past participle hiked)

1. To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.

   Don't forget to bring the map when we go hiking tomorrow.

2. To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
3. (American football) To snap the ball to start a play.
4. (nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
5. To pull up or tug upwards sharply.

   She hiked her skirt up.

Synonyms

• (to take a long walk): tramp
• (to lean to the windward side): lean out, sit out

Derived terms

• hiker
• hiking

Translations

Interjection

hike

1. Let's go; get moving. A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher.

See also

• hitchhike
• hitchhiker
• take a hike

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin h?c.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hik?/

Adverb

hike

1. here, in this place

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

hike (present tense hiker, past tense hika or hiket, past participle hika or hiket)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by hige

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

After Danish hige.

Verb

hike (present tense hikar, past tense hika, past participle hika, passive infinitive hikast, present participle hikande, imperative hik)

1. to yearn

See also

• hige (Bokmål)

References

• “hike” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.