hitch

CEFRB2

/hɪt͡ʃ/

noun · verb

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In plain English

01
noun
A small problem or delay that stops smooth progress.
02
verb
To get a free ride in someone else's vehicle.

Examples

Tom is hoping that he can hitch a ride to Boston.
It went without a hitch.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
A sudden pull.

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In context

His truck sported a heavy-duty hitch for his boat.
The deal sounds too good to be true. What's the hitch?
The banquet went off without a hitch

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The driver used a rope to blank the small trailer to his truck.

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Citations

The word in print, with each source given in full.

The service operated according to plan on the Monday morning with only a few hitches.
1961 July, “Glasgow emergency - the restoration of Clydeside steam suburban services”, in Trains Illustrated, page 432
Over the next week, the hitch in my dad's stride eased a bit. But we'd run out of things to talk about.
2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 110
An upcast fault is when the seam is thrown up; to counteract this a "canch" of top stone must be taken down outbye over from the fault, and a "canch" of bottom stone taken up inbye over from the fault, then level up to the bottom of your "canch" at the foreside of the hitch outbye over until you have a regular gradient to the seam on the hitch.
1879, William Bailes, Student's Guide to the Principles of Coal & Metal Mining, page 17
Philander went into the next room, which was just a lean-to hitched on to the end of the shanty, and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
The company has hitched its future to artificial intelligence — whether with its voice-enabled digital assistant or its automated placement of advertising for marketers — as the breakthrough technology to make the next generation of services and devices smarter and more capable.
2020 December 3, Cade Metz, Daisuke Wakabayashi, “Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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Origin

noun

Probably from Middle English hicchen, hytchen, icchen (“to move; to move as with a jerk”), of obscure origin. Lacks cognates in other languages. Compare itch, hike.

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noun

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The driver used a rope to blank— the small trailer to his truck.

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noun

The driver used a rope to blank the small trailer to his truck.