Dictionary: hitch rideIf you hitch a ride, you don't necessarily need to be standing by the side of the road, sticking out your thumb and waiting for an unknown car to stop and pick you up.
http://303cycling.com/lance-armstrong-and-the..."Before I sat down to dinner with my family on Thursday, October 21st, I did something that was equal parts long-shot and joke. I pulled up my Twitter account and thought, 'What if…'
I typed, 'Hey Lance,
can I hitch a ride with you from Colorado to Austin?' and hit ‘send’. Instantly, I felt like a total moron. An idiot. A mooch."
CALD
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/br...hitch verb ( RIDE ) /hɪtʃ/
Definition: hitch a lift/ride informal
to get a free ride in someone else's vehicle as a way of travellingThey hitched a lift to Edinburgh from a passing car.
DWDS-Wörterbuchhttp://www.dwds.de/?qu=mitfahrenDetailansicht mitfahren
Vb.
♦ zusammen mit anderen irgendwohin fahren It is possible to use hitch a ride as a synonym for hitchhike, however, as demonstrated by the definition from AHDE and the definition posted by wmw.
AHDE
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictiona...hitchVERB: tr.
4. Informal To hitchhike: hitched a ride to the rally.
VERB: intr.
3. Informal To hitchhike.
DWDS: trampen
trampte; ist getrampt
Aussprache:
Herkunft: Englisch
1. ♦ als Tramp umherziehen
2. ♦ reisen, indem man auf Landstraßen Autos anhält und sich von ihnen mitnehmen lässt, per Anhalter reisen Neubedeutung, umgangssprachlich