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Is hitch a Scrabble word?

Yes, hitch is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 13 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of hitch?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.Examples: "The banquet went off without a hitch"; "The service operated according to plan on the Monday morning with only a few hitches."; "Over the next week, the hitch in my dad's stride eased a bit. But we'd run out of things to talk about."informal

2. (military, slang) A period of time spent in the military.Examples: "She served two hitches in Vietnam."; "U.S. TROOPS FACE LONGER ARMY HITCH; SOLDIERS BOUND FOR IRAQ, ... WILL BE RETAINED"slang

3. (mining) A hole cut into the wall of a mine on which timbers are rested.Examples: "An upcast fault is when the seam is thrown up; to counteract this a "canch" of top stone must be taken down outbye over from the fault, and a "canch" of bottom stone taken up inbye over from the fault, then level up to the bottom of your "canch" at the foreside of the hitch outbye over until you have a regular gradient to the seam on the hitch."; "A coal cutter and conveyor is used along the face, and after each cut the hitch had to be crossed at a new point."

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To pull with a jerk.Examples: "She hitched her jeans up and then tightened her belt."transitive

2. (transitive) To attach, tie or fasten.Examples: "He hitched the bedroll to his backpack and went camping."; "Philander went into the next room, which was just a lean-to hitched on to the end of the shanty, and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack."; "The company has hitched its future to artificial intelligence — whether with its voice-enabled digital assistant or its automated placement of advertising for marketers — as the breakthrough technology to make the next generation of services and devices smarter and more capable."Synonyms: affix, join, put together, accouple, affix, assemble, associate, attachtransitive

3. (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.Synonyms: splice, wed, bewed, conjoin, couple, espouse, handfast, hitchinformal

4. (informal, transitive) Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.Examples: "to hitch a ride"abbreviationalt-ofclippinginformaltransitive

5. (intransitive) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.Examples: "atoms[…]which at length hitched together"intransitive

6. (intransitive) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.Examples: "Frank’s breath hitched in his throat when he saw the knife being pointed at him."; "To ease themselves […] by hitching into another place."intransitive

name (English)

1. (informal) Alfred Hitchcockinformal

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "hitch"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "hitch"?

Scrabble
13 points
H4
I1
T1
C3
H4
Words With Friends
12 points
H3
I1
T1
C4
H3

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