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Having been run out of the movie theater for entry without payment and refusing to go back to his abusive home, a 12-year-old boy (Miles Ekhardt) sucks fiercely on his emotional support pacifier while trying to hitchhike his way out of town.
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
His journey involved freighters, hitchhiking and about any means of transportation available that was not an airplane or rental car.
—Corky Carroll, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
What Hicks longs to do, in the face of these multidirectional threats to life and liberty, is persuade April to run away with him, hitchhiking from Wisconsin to who knows where, like a pair of Depression-era hoboes, out of range of anyone who wishes them ill.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Now Kiki is spooked, walks right out of the party, and basically hitchhikes a ride with some invisible truck driver.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
His journey involved freighters, hitchhiking and about any means of transportation available that was not an airplane or rental car.
—Corky Carroll, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
What Hicks longs to do, in the face of these multidirectional threats to life and liberty, is persuade April to run away with him, hitchhiking from Wisconsin to who knows where, like a pair of Depression-era hoboes, out of range of anyone who wishes them ill.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Now Kiki is spooked, walks right out of the party, and basically hitchhikes a ride with some invisible truck driver.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hitchhike
hitch
Verb
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In the meantime, the data center will work on getting hitched to the grid.—
Sarah Henry,
AZCentral.com,
18 Jan. 2026
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Still, mainstream Democrats and the Democratic Party seemed inclined to hitch their fates to many of the issues which currently define a politics of domination, like threatening Venezuela or increasing ICE funding, even though for the first time, more voters want to abolish ICE than to keep it.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Jan. 2026
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