Hitchhike and lift same meaning ?
- Thread starter ph2004
- Start date
- Status
tedtmc
Key Member
- Joined
- Jun 12, 2006
- Member Type
- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- Chinese
- Home Country
- Malaysia
- Current Location
- Malaysia
To hitch hike is to travel by standing on the side of the road and soliciting rides/lifts from passing vehicles. In order words, you get a lift by openly asking for it.
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2006
- Member Type
- English Teacher
- Native Language
- English
- Home Country
- UK
- Current Location
- UK
A related term, because of the sign 
up often used when hitch-hiking, is 'to thumb a lift'. Thumbing a lift can be used of a more incidental form of 'soliciting a lift': His train was cancelled, so he thumbed a lift, but During the year before his course started, he hitch-hiked around Europe..
b
up often used when hitch-hiking, is 'to thumb a lift'. Thumbing a lift can be used of a more incidental form of 'soliciting a lift': His train was cancelled, so he thumbed a lift, but During the year before his course started, he hitch-hiked around Europe..b
- Status