English
Etymology
From hitchhike + -er.
Noun
hitchhiker (plural hitchhikers)
- A person or thing that hitchhikes.
- An item attached to a travel bug and hidden in a geocache to be found and transported to other caches or around the world.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance move in which the dancer mimics the motions of someone thumbing a ride.
- (informal, botany) A bur that attaches and clings to clothing, or a bur-bearing plant.
- (radio, advertising) An advertisement at the end of a programme.
- Coordinate term: cowcatcher
1945, Charles Harold Sandage, Radio Advertising for Retailers, page 186:[…] and networks have taken steps to modify or eliminate the bunching of spots and commercials between programs which results from the use of hitchhikers and cowcatchers.
Translations
a person who hitchhikes
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: ավտոստոպով ճամփորդող (avtostopov čampʻordoġ)
- Catalan: autoestopista m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 搭車者 / 搭车者 (dāchēzhě), 搭車人 / 搭车人 (dāchērén), 搭車的 / 搭车的 (zh) (dāchē de)
- Czech: stopař (cs) m, stopařka (cs) f
- Danish: tomler, blaffer
- Dutch: lifter (nl) m, liftster f
- Esperanto: petveturisto
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: peukalokyytiläinen, (slang) liftari
- French: autostoppeur (fr), pouceux (fr) (Quebec, informal)
- Galician: autostopista m or f
- Georgian: მოგზაური (mogzauri)
- German: Anhalter (de) m, Tramper (de) m
- Greek: άτομο που ταξιδεύει με οτοστόπ n (átomo pou taxidévei me otostóp)
- Hungarian: stoppos (hu)
- Ido: autostopero (io)
- Italian: autostoppista (it) m or f, gitante (it) m, turista (it) m
- Japanese: ヒッチハイクする人 (ja) (hitchihaiku suru hito)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: īkšķotājs m, īkšķotāja f
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: автосто́пер m (avtostóper), автосто́перка f (avtostóperka)
- Malay: pengembara tumpang
- Mongolian: замын машинд дайгдаж яваа хүн (zamyn mašind dajgdaž javaa xün)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: haiker m
- Nynorsk: haikar m
- Polish: autostopowicz (pl) m, autostopowiczka (pl) f
- Portuguese: caroneiro m
- Romanian: autostopist (ro) m, autostopistă (ro) f
- Russian: автосто́пщик (ru) m (avtostópščik), автосто́пщица (ru) f (avtostópščica), путеше́ствующий автосто́пом m (putešéstvujuščij avtostópom), путеше́ствующая автосто́пом f (putešéstvujuščaja avtostópom)
- Slovak: autostopár m
- Spanish: autoestopista (es) m or f, autostopista (es) m or f
- Swedish: liftare (sv) c
- Tamil: கெஞ்சுப்பயணி (keñcuppayaṇi)
- Turkish: otostopçu (tr)
- Ukrainian: автосто́пщик m (avtostópščyk), автосто́пщиця f (avtostópščycja)
- Vietnamese: người xin có giang
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