hitch a ride

idiom

informal

: to get a ride in a passing vehicle

Her car broke down, so she had to hitch a ride with a passing truck.

Examples of hitch a ride in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

So while there’s no way to get rid of all the creatures that might hitch a ride along the food processing chain, the FDA has established standards to keep food defects to a minimum. —Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024

So, grab one of Symone's Diana Ross breasts as a floatation device and hitch a ride on the S.S. Muse, because EW's BINGE podcast is back, back, back again. —Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2023

That applies to bedbugs that may hitch a ride with you back to your home. —Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024

Pest Inspect Bad bugs love to hitch a ride from the grower and multiply in less than ideal conditions. —Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024

Dawkins had to provide her own transportation and was able to hitch a ride, along with some other students, to and from Dillard. —Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024

These pathogens can hitch a ride on shoes when people travel. —Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2024

That’s left the tax bill as the odd man out, as Wyden searches for another piece of legislation on which the tax provisions could hitch a ride before mid-April. —Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024

In order to bridge the gap, the team modified the small vaccine components to include a fatty acid, which enables the vaccine to effectively hitch a ride on albumin, a common protein found throughout the body. —Jaimie Seaton, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2024