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Definition of Hitchhiker
1. Noun. A person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles.
Definition of Hitchhiker
1. Noun. A person who hitchhikes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hitchhiker
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Hitchhiker
1. A gene that has no selective advantage, or may even be harmful, but that nevertheless temporarily becomes widespread because it is closely linked and coupled with a highly advantageous gene that is strongly selected. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hitchhiker
Literary usage of Hitchhiker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anabolic Steroid Abuse by Geraline C. Lin (1996)
"The group left immediately and soon thereafter saw a hitchhiker on the road. ...
After the hitchhiker, a stranger to all present, entered the vehicle, ..."
2. From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less by Al Gore (1994)
"But 1RS employees there discovered that a disbursing center had sent a check to
the hitchhiker s old address and that it had been returned. ..."
3. WMD Machete by Mark Plimsoll (2006)
"A fellow hitchhiker explained this apparent altruism to me. He said "It's not
the rich who stop to help a motorist on the highway, or pick up a hitchhiker, ..."
4. Doing Business with NASA (1993)
"The Get Away Special, hitchhiker, and other Shuttle Carrier systems provide
simpler, and less expensive interfaces for supporting smaller and simpler ..."
5. Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions by William D. Compton (1996)
"See the editorial in the Washington Post, "Our Mark on the Moon," July 3,1969;
Herblock's cartoon "Lunar hitchhiker," Washington Post, July 6, 1969; ..."
6. The Simple Life by Ruth Porter (2006)
""He probably didn't want to talk about you to a stranger, to a hitchhiker."
"I always thought a lot of Sonny. He's a good-lookin man. ..."
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