hitch
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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