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.
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The jaunt up the road to the village can be a steep one, so stick to the shade or hitch a ride from a friendly local in one of the handful of cars on the island.
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Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2025
If your cat or dog is outside and not wearing a flea protection product, fleas hitch a ride indoors with them.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 31 Mar. 2025
What happens is, the virus can multiply and hitch a ride to other organs in your body if your immune system doesn’t tame it in due time.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 28 Feb. 2025
The researchers behind the brain plastics study think the tiny shards of plastic hitch a ride on fat molecules to get inside brain cells.
—Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025
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Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2025
If your cat or dog is outside and not wearing a flea protection product, fleas hitch a ride indoors with them.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 31 Mar. 2025
What happens is, the virus can multiply and hitch a ride to other organs in your body if your immune system doesn’t tame it in due time.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 28 Feb. 2025
The researchers behind the brain plastics study think the tiny shards of plastic hitch a ride on fat molecules to get inside brain cells.
—Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hitch a ride
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“Hitch a ride.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hitch%20a%20ride. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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