To try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road.
1 I'll thumb a ride to town with you, if I may.
2 He seldom attempted to thumb a ride .
3 He could simply check out of the inn, walk up to the main highway, and thumb a ride north.
4 He tried thumbing a ride from a couple in a pickup, but no luck.
5 " Thumbed a ride on the Heart of Gold." I spoke without thinking.
6 "In case something crawls out of an airlock, tries to thumb a ride , " he said.
7 In one of them, I was a drifter, walking alongside a desert highway under a full moon, thumbing a ride without success.
8 "I would drive us," Two-Bit said as we walked up the street trying to thumb a ride , "but the brakes are out on my car.
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