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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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 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 19 Jul. 2025.

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