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Definition: HITCHED |
HITCHEDImperative & past participle1. Of Hitch |
Date "HITCHED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Marriage | Verb: marry, wive, take to oneself a wife; be married, be spliced; go off, pair off; wed, espouse, get hitched, lead to the hymeneal altar, take "for better for worse", give one's hand to, bestow one's hand upon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: HITCHED |
| English words defined with "HITCHED": hitching bar, hitching post, hitchrack. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HITCHED": cockermeg ♦ HORSE TRAINER ♦ lazy deckie, lazy decky, lazyline ♦ poke line ♦ recovery rope. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | When are you going to get hitched there, son (Saving Silverman; writing credit: Hank Nelken; Greg DePaul) | |
Lyrics | 'Til I hitched a ride on a river boat queen (PROUD MARY; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival) I hitched a ride with a vending machine repair man (Everyday is a Winding Road; performing artist: Sheryl Crow) Your wagons been hitched to a star (Champagne High; performing artist: Sister Hazel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hitched (1973) The Horse That Wouldn't Stay Hitched (1913) Hitched and Bound! (1994) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Wagon hitched to a not so shining star. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Horse hitched to rail fence outside of school. Up South Fork of the Kentucky River, Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | This Negro client of Dixon's Mill community, Marengo County, Alabama, had come to town for groceries and feed with his steer hitched to his homemade wagon. The cost of this wagon was effort only, it having wooden axles, wooden wheels and wooden pins. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Camel hitched to water-dealer's cart. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He gave up the fly and left it open and fumbled with the underwear buttons, then gave the whole thing up and hitched his brown suspenders |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "HITCHED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 72.73% of the time. "HITCHED" is used about 110 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 72.73% | 80 | 37,112 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 20.91% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.55% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.91% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.91% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 110 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "HITCHED": get hitched ♦ get hitched with. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "HITCHED": un-hitched. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hitched | 32 |
hitched horsehair | 3 |
hitched virtually | 3 |
get hitched | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HITCHED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | омъжена (covert, married), оженен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 拴住 (Hitching). (various references) | |
Czech | vlízt do chomoutu (get hitched). (various references) | |
German | rückte. (various references) | |
Hebrew | רתום (fastened, harnessed, harnessing, hitching). (various references) | |
Hungarian | beakadt. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itchedhay.(various references) | |
Russian | женатый (married). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pričvršćen (nailed, stayed). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "HITCHED": unhitched. (additional references) | |
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"HITCHED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aitched, titched. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HITCHED" (pronounced hi"kht) |
| 3 | -i" kh t | bewitched, ditched, enriched, pitched, stitched, switched, twitched. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-h-h-i-t" | |
-1 letter: itched. | |
-2 letters: cheth, chide, cited, ditch, edict, ethic, hitch. | |
-3 letters: cedi, chid, chit, cite, dice, diet, dite, edit, etch, etic, heth, hide, hied, iced, itch, tide, tied. | |
-4 letters: chi, die, dit, edh, eth, heh, het, hic, hid, hie, hit, ice, ich, ted, the, tic, tie. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, eh, et, he, hi, id, it, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-h-h-i-t" | |
+2 letters: thickhead, unhitched. | |
+3 letters: hitchhiked, thickheads. | |
+4 letters: chitchatted, headachiest, hemstitched, thickheaded. | |
+5 letters: diphtheritic, hemichordate, whipstitched. | |
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