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as in yanked
to move or cause to move with a sharp quick motion
kept hitching up his pants because they were too big in the waist
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as in connected
to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole
she escaped out the window by using a makeshift rope of bedsheets and clothing she'd hitched together
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as in fastened
to put securely in place or in a desired position
hitched the trailer to the back of the car
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as in hijacked
to travel by securing free rides
her brother hitched across the country after he graduated from college
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Recent Examples of hitched
Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
Joe Manganiello is getting hitched.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
The trailer then cuts to scenes of characters flipping the bird, Kardashian getting hitched and — eventually — things totally falling apart.
—Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
When Jean arrived with Wole, before the sun was high-hot, Kelly was already there, sitting tacky under Mickey Martinez’s arm, inside his red F-150, the boat hitched behind.
—David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
In three weeks’ time, getting hitched in Los Angeles County will become significantly more expensive.
—Claire Wang, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
She’s hitched from Novi Sad, where the railway station collapsed in December.
—Sara Stridsberg
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Except that in this case, she was already hitched to the glamour dude.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
The couple has been married for over eight years now, since getting hitched in July 2016.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
That outlines Andromeda, the princess, who’s hitched to the rear end of the horse.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
Joe Manganiello is getting hitched.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
The trailer then cuts to scenes of characters flipping the bird, Kardashian getting hitched and — eventually — things totally falling apart.
—Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
When Jean arrived with Wole, before the sun was high-hot, Kelly was already there, sitting tacky under Mickey Martinez’s arm, inside his red F-150, the boat hitched behind.
—David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
In three weeks’ time, getting hitched in Los Angeles County will become significantly more expensive.
—Claire Wang, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
She’s hitched from Novi Sad, where the railway station collapsed in December.
—Sara Stridsberg
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Except that in this case, she was already hitched to the glamour dude.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
The couple has been married for over eight years now, since getting hitched in July 2016.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hitched
Verb
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On Friday, he was yanked after only one snap.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
22 Oct. 2025
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It was yanked off the market and plopped back on.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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The canal connected increasingly specialized regions in the early US, explains historian Roger Ransom.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
26 Oct. 2025
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Coming off of a Game 4 performance in the NLCS which still has baseball fans marveling, Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani connected on a two-run home run in the next half inning to cut into the Jays’ big lead.—
Jacob Lev,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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For Stone, the Susa sandals aligned with the breezy sophistication of her archival spring 1996 Donna Karan ensemble, which consisted of a column skirt and a collared top daintily fastened at the chest.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
23 Oct. 2025
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Sturgeon from the Delaware River were likely fastened to a spit and basted with butter, then sprinkled with flour, nutmeg, mace, salt, sweet herbs, and breadcrumbs before being dressed in a tangy sauce that usually included anchovy, lobster, lemon, horseradish, and white wine.—
Victoria Flexner,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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The WormGPT name itself has been hijacked by other dark AI models as well, including keanu-WormGPT, which utilizes a jailbroken version of X’s Grok.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
24 Oct. 2025
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Our amygdala is overactive, our nervous systems are fried and our dopamine cycles are hijacked by short-term stimuli.—
Chris Schembra,
Rolling Stone,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Why is my child so attached to me?—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025
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For pre-lit trees with a single lighting style, there is an attached foot pedal to turn the lights on and off.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
20 Oct. 2025
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Travis jerked open the door and slid on his butt down a wing that was on fire.—
Gillian Telling,
PEOPLE,
20 Sep. 2025
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The president starts out by making a visit to Liberty Arena to play basketball with some school children, then gets jerked away when the crisis happens.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
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Plaintiffs argue that federal officials have coupled this surveillance with a campaign of public threats — warning that noncitizens who post anti-American or anti-Israel content online risk deportation or visa revocation.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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Once captured by the QuBUS, the photons were coupled into a fiber optic cable and sent to an ion trap at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) in Erlangen for analysis.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Oct. 2025
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Add Bamboo Stakes Once the wire is secured, measure bamboo stakes to match the width of each trellis.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Oct. 2025
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Her team secured $89,000 in grant funding from the United Way of Greater Cincinnati that will be put toward the lot’s security guard.—
Grace Tucker,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Hitched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hitched. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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