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Meanings of hitchhiker in English

Russian
автостопщик
Portuguese
viajante à boleia
Spanish
autostopista
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One who asks people, usually strangers, for a ride in their road vehicle.

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          Usage of hitchhiker in English
          1
          The problem with the vanishing hitchhiker is that it never stays vanished.
          John Winchester’s Journal
          2
          They were more interested in the microbiological hitchhiker harbored within her corpse.
          Gravity
          3
          Joan Petri Klint wrote about a prophetic hitchhiker in Sweden in 1602.
          John Winchester’s Journal
          4
          He meets another hitchhiker and they ride the rails for a while.
          The new yorker
          5
          He aimed it, like a hitchhiker, in the direction they were pointed.
          Nevermore
          6
          They pick up a repulsive hitchhiker, who appears to be a homosexual.
          The new yorker
          7
          Maybe I did make too much fuss over picking up that hitchhiker.
          The Book of Skulls
          8
          Nelson and the hitchhiker were picked up by authorities near the rest stop.
          Reuters
          9
          The cocaine belonged to Freddie the hitchhiker and it had been illegally discovered.
          Life
          10
          Evidently this was the hitchhiker who would be cremated in my father's name.
          Fear nothing
          11
          Katt Williams as a hitchhiker Terry Bradshaw as himself, a retired football player.
          The South African
          12
          Finally, bouncing over the rocks, I turned a corner and saw a hitchhiker.
          Country driving: a journey through china from farm to factory
          13
          My guess is he picked up our man as a hitchhiker.'
          White corridor
          14
          History of the vanishing hitchhiker goes back a long way.
          John Winchester’s Journal
          15
          He's a young French hitchhiker, possibly from a mountain region.'
          White corridor
          16
          A murdered hitchhiker would be cremated in my father's place.
          Fear nothing
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