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

This coordinated reaction suggests the hungry nematodes may be joining together to easily hitch a ride on larger animals such as insects that transport them to (not so) greener pastures with more rotten fruit to feast on, Perez said. —Kameryn Griesser, CNN Money, 5 June 2025

Two seats were purposely kept empty so that their colleagues could later hitch a ride back to Earth. —Denise Chow, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2025

Once the eggs hatch, the tadpoles hitch a ride on their father to a close body of water. —Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 24 June 2025

With news that the President may soon accept a four-hundred-million-dollar jet from Qatar (definitely not a Trojan horse!), revisit this classic Shouts & Murmurs on the kinds of people who might want to hitch a ride on Trump’s plane. —Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 13 May 2025

Rhymes for hitch a ride

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