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HITCHHIKER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hitchhiker mean?
• HITCHHIKER (noun)
The noun HITCHHIKER has 1 sense:
1. a person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles
Familiarity information: HITCHHIKER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("hitchhiker" is a kind of...):
passenger; rider (a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it)
Derivation:
hitchhike (travel by getting free rides from motorists)
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