Hitch

Definition: Hitch

Hitch

Noun

1. A period of time spent in military service.

2. The state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat".

3. An unforeseen obstacle.

4. A connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls.

5. A knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it.

6. Any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome.

7. The uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg.

Verb

1. To hook or entangle: "One foot caught in the stirrup".

2. Walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; "The old woman hobbles down to the store every day.".

3. Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched, as of horses.

4. Travel by getting free rides from motorists.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hitch" was first used: 1440. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Mining

Personal Care & Hotels

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Hitch

Agitation

Agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate.

Difficulty

Fix, horns of a dilemma, cul de sac; hitch; stumbling block; (hindrance).

Hindrance

Impediment, let, obstacle, obstruction, knot, knag; check, hitch, contretemps, screw loose, grit in the oil.

Junction

Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span.

Pendency

Suspend, hang, sling, hook up, hitch, fasten to, append.

Crosswords: Hitch

My agency's going to become a part of the military, I've got a president with his finger poised on the button, and you want me to walk across the park and tell him we want to hitch a ride with those very same Russians (2010; writing credit: Arthur C. Clarke; Peter Hyams)

I'm gonna get me a bottle of tequila and find me a woman can suck the chrome off a bumper hitch. (The Electric Horseman; writing credit: Shelly Burton; Paul Gaer)

Ha, ha. But, Hitch, you mustn't do that (Sound Test for Blackmail; writing credit: Tom Cushing; Elliott Lester)

Hitch a ride to the end of the highway where the neons turn to wood (UP AROUND THE BEND; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Hangin' on barely, hitch a ride away (Midnight At The Lost & Found; performing artist: Meat Loaf)

Hitch hitch hike baby (HARLEM SHUFFLE; performing artist: Rolling Stones)

Hitch Hiker's Hold-up (1973)

A Hitch in Time (1955)

The Hitch Hikers (1947)

Hitch Hike to Heaven (1936)

A Quick Hitch (1901)

HITCH HIKE� (performing artist: Marvin Gaye� )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Hitch in Time (Time Passages Romance Series) (reference)

• Hitch Hikers Guide Galaxy Omni (reference)

• Hitch Your Wagon to a Star (reference)

• Me and Hitch (reference)

• Panhandle Pioneer: Henry C. Hitch, His Ranch and His Family (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hitch Hike (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Long Tall Tales and Highway Adventures of Trailer Hitch (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Master Lock 375DAT Snap on Receiver Hitch Lock with 5/8" Pin (reference)

• Steel Horse 9900 Hitch Hand (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

He takes a half hitch around her waist and holds her beside him while he begins shoutin' to the crowd to take it easy. Credit: Library of Congress.

Inviting the undertaker. Hitch a ride on the rear of a truck. Worry the driver... Credit: Library of Congress.

Using a diamond hitch in packing a horse. Bozeman, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pack animal coming down from summer sheep camp. Note hitch. Adams County, Idaho. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hitch your wagon to a star / J.C. Leyendecker. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "hitch": Blackwall hitch ♦ bowline hitch ♦ clove hitch ♦ get a hitch ♦ half hitch ♦ have a hitch ♦ hitch a horse to a post ♦ hitch a lift ♦ hitch a ride ♦ hitch smb.'s waggon to a star ♦ hitch together ♦ hitch up ♦ hitch up one's trousers ♦ horizontal clove hitch ♦ magnus hitch ♦ rolling hitch ♦ swab hitch ♦ technical hitch ♦ timber hitch ♦ To hitch up ♦ weaver's hitch ♦ without a hitch. Additional references.

Beginning with "hitch": hitch-girl, hitch-girls, hitch-hike, hitch-hiked, hitch-hiker, hitch-hikers, hitch-hikes, hitch-hiking.

Ending with "hitch": half-hitch.

Albanian

hop (ha, jump, leap, time), kapje (apprehension, arrest, attachment, catch, catchment, clasp, clutch, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, griping, hold, holding, hook, hug, interception, jaw, prehension, purchase, recapture, seizing, snatch, uptake), çapitem (toddle), çapitje (falter, hobble, shamble), autostop (hitch-hike), avari (breakdown, failure), eci çalë-çalë, fiksim (complex, fastening, fixation, fixing), grevë (delay, setback, stoppage, strike), kërcim i shkurtër, çalim (hobble, lameness, limp), kapem (cling, fasten, hold on, hold on to, tussle), vështirësi (difficulty, embarrassment, hardness, hurdle, knot, quandary, rub, scrape), lëviz me kërcime të shkurtra (hop), lidh (articulate, associate, bend, bind, buckle, bundle, colligate, concatenate, connect, couple, do up, dress, enfetter, fasten, glue, hook up, interconnect, join, joint, lace, ligate, link, moor, regard, relate, respect, solder, splice, string, switch on, tie, tie down, truss, unite), ndal një makinë të rastit (hitch-hike), ngec (break down, conk out, flounder, fob off, foist, foul, hesitate, jam, Lodge, pack up, plant, run down, seize, throw, thrust), ngre (boost, build up, carve, cast up, chant, elevate, erect, establish, heft, heighten, hike, hoist, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, move up, peak, pick up, propound, raise, rear, rebel, revolt, ring up, rout, run up, scoop up, set up, situate, soar, Square, straighten, take off, throw up, trice, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, wake up, weigh, wind up), nyjë (article, articulation, bend, center, hinge, hub, joint, knot, knuckle, knuckle joint, knurl, node, nodular, nodus), pengesë (balk, bar, barrier, baulk, block, boom, chock, clog, cramp, crash barrier, cumber, detention, difficulty, dike, disadvantage, drag, drawback, encumbrance, fetter, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, interruption, jamming, liability, manacle, mash, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, pullback, retardation, retardment, rub, setback, stay, stoppage, stumbling block, stumbling-stone, stunt, traverse, trip up), periudhë (bout, chapter, date, day, epoch, hour, inning, innings, period, phase, run, season, span, stage, streak, stretch, term, tide, time, tour, vintage), tërheq lart (pull up), kap (affect, apprehend, arrest, attack, avail oneself of, captivate, capture, catch, catch on, catch out, catch up, clasp, clutch, cop, embrace, gain, get, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, handle, have, hold, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nip, nobble, overcome, overtake, pick up, pinch, reach, rummage out, seize, snap, snatch, soak up, swoop, tackle, take, track down, unhang). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فترة ماضية, ‏تقدم بلا إنتظام, ‏توقف (break off, breakdown, come to a halt, cut off, demise, discontinue, end, halt, hinge, lapse, layover, let up, letup, obstruction, pass by, pause, pull up, quit, rest, run down, setback, stall, stand, stay, stop, stop over, stoppage, stopping, touch), ‏تزوج (espouse, get married, join, knot, marry, marry off, stand up, take the plunge, wed), ‏تأخير (be delayed, delay, detention, hindrance, hold up, interception, lateness, postponement, retard, retardation, tardiness), ‏سافر متطفلا مجانا (hitch-hike), ‏عقدة (clove, complex, ganglion, kink, knob, knurl, loop, nub, tangle, umbo), ‏عقد (act, agreement, bead, cast, charter, compact, complicate, conclude, congeal, contract, convene, convention, covenant, decade, deed, draw, embarrass, engagement, entangle, hold, indent, instrument, knitting, knot, lease, muckrake, muddy, pact, perplex, promise, ravel, vault, vaulting, writing), ‏عقبة (barricade, block, blockade, bunker, difficulty, drawback, hurdle, inconvenience, interference, jam, obstacle, obstruction, snag, spine, stick, stumbling block), ‏ربط (attach, attachment, bind, connect, couple, faster, interface, involve, join, knit, knitting, lash, lash down, ligature, link, moor, relate, rope, secure, set, slur, strap, swaddle, tether, tying, unite), ‏شد فرس إلى عربة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

засечка (backlash, falter, fluff, kink, misfire), дръпвам (jerk, pull, pull at, pull away, pull down, pull in, retract, strike, suck at, tug, tweak, twitch, withdraw), дръпване (jerk, pluck, tweak), издърпвам (pull, pull up, twitch), подръпвам (give a pull, pull, pull at, twitch), подръпване, погаждам се (get along, hit it off, rub along), пътуване на автостоп (thumb-riding), закачам (append, bangle, catch, clasp, dangle, graze, hang, hang out, hang up, hook, jive, jolly, pin on, pin up, put up, rib, ride, roast, rough-house, tease, tooth, twit), закачване, давам знак (motion, sign), зацепвам (couple, engage, enmesh, mesh, pitch), скачване (linkage), накуцвам (dot and go one, limp, tread), накуцване (limp), оженвам (give in marriage, marry, marry off, mate, pair, splice, turn off), вид възел (cats paw), впрягам (gear, harness, rope in), впрягане, военна служба (duty), спънка (backset, balk, baulk, countercheck, cramp, difficulty, drawback, hindrance, hobble, impediment, interference, interruption, kink, liability, manacle, obstacle, preclusion, pull back, setback, shoal, stumbling block), слабо разместване на пластове, затруднение (ado, cumber, difficulty, drawback, embarrassment, encumbrance, hang up, hard sledding, hardship, involvement, jackpot, perplexity, pinch, predicament, pressure, quandary, rub, scrape, spot, tickler, tight corner, tight squeeze, trouble). (various references)

Chinese 

拴住 , � " (tied, tying). (various references)

Czech

háèek (catch, crochet hook, fastening, hiccup, hook, knot), zádrhel (hiccup, snag), uvázat konì ke kùlu (hitch a horse to a post), stopovat (hitchhike, hitch-hike, retrace, stalk, trace, trail), stop (stop), potíž (difficulty, hassle, inconvenience, obstacle, snag), postrkovat, klièka (handle, kink). (various references)

Danish

hul til støttebjælke, tilkoblingsanordning (linkage), tilkobling (attachment, docking, engagement, hitching, linkage, locking). (various references)

Dutch

vloergat, koppeling (clutch). (various references)

Esperanto

alkroĉi (hitch on, hook on). (various references)

Faeroese

heingja (hang, hitch on, hook on), krøkja upp á (hitch on, hook on). (various references)

Farsi 

پیچ وخمیدگی , محظور (Embargo, Impediment, Obligation, Obstacle), مانع (Balk, Bar, Barricade, Brake, Crimp, Dike, Drawback, Embargo, Encumbrance, Handicap, Hedge, Hinder, Hindrance, Hurdle, Impediment, Let, Lock, Obstacle, Preventive, Repellent, Setback, Shackle, Snag, Stay), هل دادن (Haul, Hustle, Jog, Poach, Poke, Push, Shoulder, Shove, Yerk), گیر (Embroglio, Fix, Gripe, Impasse, Impediment, Jamming, Obstacle, Scrape, Snag, Trap), گرفتاری (Ado, Assurance, Captivity, Constraint, Encumbrance, Involvement, Mire, Plight, Scrape, Snarl), تکان دادن (Budge, Convulse, Hustle, Impulse, Jar, Jolt, Jounce, Move, Shake, Startle, Stir, Twiddle, Wag, Wiggle), انداختن (Cast, Delete, Drop, Hurl, Hurtle, Jaculate, Launch, Layaway, Omit, Put, Relegate, Shovel, Sling, Slough, Souse, Throw, Thrust, Toss). (various references)

Finnish

verkonkutojan solmu (becket bend, sheet bend, signal halliard bend, single bend, single sheet bend, swab hitch, weaver's knot), paalusolmu (bowline hitch, bowline knot), kahnauksetta (without a hitch, without friction). (various references)

French

attelage (hitching). (various references)

German

ruck (flip, jar, jerk, jolt, lurch, pull, swing, tug, wrench, yank), problem (business, challenge, issue, problem, question, snag, trouble), knoten (bun, burl, kink, kinks, knop, knot, knurl, knurls, lump, nodal, node, nodes, plot, snarl, to kink, to knot, tophus, tuber), haken (belaying pin, catch, check, crotchet, crotchets, crux, cruxes, grappling iron, hash, hash up, hook, hooks, peg, snag, stick, trip up), festmachen (arrange, attach, belay, bring to bay, clamp down, clinch, exemplify, fasten, fasten down, fasten on, fix, fix on, fix up, grip, hook, moor, secure, to fasten, to make fast, wrap up). (various references)

Greek 

κόμβοσ (bowline, junction, kink, knob, knot, knurl, node, nub), σύνδεση (attachment, conjunction, connection, coupling, hookup, junction, ligature, link up, spanning, splice, syndication, tap), γάντζοσ (cramp, gaff, gripper, hook, pawl), προσδένω (attach, harness, moor), προσδένομαι, ζεύξις (coupling), εμπόδιο (barrier, block, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, hurdle, impediment, obstacle, obstruction, obtrusion, stumbling block, trammel, trig), αναποδιά (contretemps, misadventure, setback), θηλειά (loop). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכשול (balk, bar, baulk, drawback, hindrance, impediment, obstacle, obstruction, pitfall, snag, stumbling block), לולא�" (bow, buttonhole, loop, noose, tab), לקשור (bind, bond, connect, knit, plot, relate, tether, tie, truss), לרתום (bind, bridle, curb, harness, team), תקל�" (accident, fault, hindrance, hurdle, incident, jam, mischance, misfortune, mishap, obstacle, offence), עכוב (delay, hindrance, hold up, interception, obstacle, obstruction, prevention, retardation, setback, stoppage, suspension), אבן � �'ף (stumbling block). (various references)

Hungarian

rántás (hoick, jerk, liaison, lug, pluck, pull, tug, twitch, yank), akadály (balk, bar, barrier, blockage, check, cumber, difficulty, drag, drawback, handicap, hang fire, hindrance, hobble, hurdle, impediment, leap, let, lion in the path, lion in the way, malfunction, objection, obstacle, obstruction, retardation, ring fence, snag, stumbling block, stumbling-block, stumbling-stone, throw back, trammel, traverse), nehézség (balk, crux, difficulty, hardness, hardship, inconvenience, knot, ponderosity, ponderousness, puzzle, snag, stress, stumbling block, stumbling-block, traverse), megrántás (pull, tug, twitch), horog (clench, crotchet, fish hook, fish-hook, gaff, grapple, grappling iron, hanger, hook), hirtelen megállás (check, dead stop). (various references)

Indonesian

sentak. (various references)

Italian

strattone (draw, jerk, pull, tug, twitch, yank), ostacolo (balk, check, clog, difficulty, drag, drawback, fence, handicap, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impediment, jump, obstacle, obstruction, setback, snag, stumbling block, wattle), nodo (bond, Burl, crux, gnarl, heart, junction, kink, knob, knot, knurl, loop, node, tangle, tie), muoversi a sbalzi, muovere a strattono, legare (alloy, bind, connect, get on well, go well, join, lash, link, tether, tie, tie up, unite, wire), intoppo (Nodus, obstacle, snag), impedimento (check, clog, determent, drag, encumbrance, escapement, handicap, hindrance, holdback, impediment, obstacle, obstruction, preventative, prevention, stumbling block), fare l'autostop (hitch-hike, thumb), difficolt� (ado, arduousness, arduousnesses, awkwardness, difficulties, difficulty, fix, knot, problem, severity, stiffness, Strait, toughness, trial, trouble), colpo (bang, beat, blow, bout, buffet, bump, chop, clap, clout, dab, dash, fit, flap, flick, hit, hoot, jab, knock, pelt, punch, punishment, putt, rap, shock, shot, slam, slap, sock, splash, stamp, sting, strike, stroke, thump, thwack, whack), attacco (access, aggression, assault, attack, binding, bout, connection, connexion, fastening, fit, junction, offense, onfall, onset, paroxysm, seizure, spasm, team, thrust, turn), attaccare (adherence, affix, annex, append, assail, assault, attach, attack, become attached, begin, bind, catch on, cling, connect, engage, fasten, fix, foist, glue, hang, infect, lead off, link, pass on, pin, pitch into, plug in, put up, stick, stick in, strike, strike up, tie). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"そ泥 (because of this, besides, by doing, by means of, can, clicking, compact, drumming, dry, due to this, frightened, happens on occasions, hard, has occurred, in addition, it has been arrangedthat, it has been decidedthat, it is I who should say so, laboriously, lately, maybe, misspelling of "kon ni chi ha", moreover, perhaps, possibly, prejudice, puritanical, recently, regularToukai-line shinkansen, secretly, sneak-thief, sound of rapping, steadily, stealthily, such a thing happened, thanks to this, the other day, there are times when, through, to be able to, to be concerned about, to be particular about, to fuss over, to have done, to this extent, trouble, unflaggingly, untiringly, using, via). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"� わり (prejudice, trouble). (various references)

Korean 

까탈. (various references)

Manx

tayrn (brew of tea; designing, brew; designing, carry, carrying, cart; get out; draw, deracinate, describe; attract, draft, drag, draw along, drawing, haul, haulage, heave, induce; tap, induce; tap as barrel, lure, pluck, pull, pulling, suction, tow, towing, trace, tracing; quartering, trawl, tug, tugging, yank), lhiettalys (check, clogging, constriction, counteraction, discouragement, embargo, hindrance, impedance, inhibition, interception, let, obstruction, prevention, restraint, restriction, stay, stoppage), kiangley da, castey (appease, beat back, censor, check, choke back, contain, counter, cure, defeat, end, freeze, freeze as loan, inhibit, preclude, staunch, stave off, suppress, throwing stones). (various references)

Norwegian

hindring (encumbrance, hindrance), vanskelighet (difficulty, trouble), stikk (jab). (various references)

Pig Latin

itchhay.(various references)

Portuguese

sistema de ligação (linkage), segurar (assure, attach, bolster, clamp, cling, clip, ensure, grapple, guy, hang onto, hold, hold back, indemnify, insure, pillar, pin, secure, seize, sustain, take, take up, underset, unrein, uphold), sacudidela (backlash, flip, flirt, flounce, jar, jerk, jog, jolt, pluck, rumble-tumble, shake, wag, waggle, whisk), puxar subitamente, pux�o, prender com um n�, n�, mancar (cripple, dot and go one, halt, hobble, lame, limp), impedimento (arrest, balk, batman, clog, cramp, delay, deterrent, embargo, estoppel, gag, hindrance, impediment, let, obstacle, obstruction, patency, preclusion, preventer, prevention, preventive, stop, stoppage, trammels), ficar preso, engate (clamp, clutch, coupler, coupling, gearing), encrenca (foul-up, trouble), dificuldade (ado, awkwardness, check, checkout, complicacy, cramp, crux, deterrent, difficulty, distress, embarrassment, encumbrance, fix, handicap, hardness, hardship, hindrance, hobble, holdback, impediment, intricacy, knot, let, matter, mess, need, nicety, nodus, obstacle, obstruction, plummet, quagmire, ravel, rub, scrape, stress, trammels, trouble), coxeadura (halt, hobble, lameness, limp), amarrar (attach, bind, cable, connect, join, knot, mouse, secure, string, tie, tie up, truss). (various references)

Romanian

hurduca (bump, jolt), obstacol (bar, barrier, check, clog, cumber, delay, dike, drag, drawback, encumbrance, entanglement, hazard, hindrance, hold back, hurdle, impediment, interference, jog, leap, marplot, object, obstacle, obstruction, rub, snag, stay), împinge brusc, şontâcãi (halt, hobbling, stump), dificultate (ado, complication, crux, difficulty, doubt, hardness, hardship, hindrance, hurdle, inconvenience, need, ponderosity, ticklishness, trouble), dispozitiv de înhãmare, falie unicã, fixa (accommodate, adapt, adjust, affix, anchor, appoint, arrange, arrest, ascertain, assess, assign, attach, attune, bed, bind, bond, brace, clamp, clasp, define, determine, dog, establish, fasten, find, fit, fix, immobilize, impact, imprint, indicate, ingrain, lay, make fast, Mount, nail, nail down, name, nominate, pin, pin down, place, put on, recognize, regulate, schedule, secure, settle, stamp, state, stick, stiffen, stipulate, strengthen, tie, trace, tune), introduce forţat, lega (associate, attach, band, bend, bequeath, bind, bind up, brace, charm, coagulate, conjoin, connect, cord, couple, encircle, express, fasten, fetter, insert, interlink, interlock, join, joint, knit, knot, link, mate, pack, relate, shackle, sheave, start, tackle, tether, tie, unite), împiedica (arrest, back, balk, baulk, block, brake, check, circumvent, clog, delay, detain, deter, embarrass, encumber, forbid, foreclose, hamper, help, hinder, hobble, hold, hopple, impede, inhibit, intercept, lock, obstruct, prevent, put on the brakes, restrain, shackle, shut out, snag, stay, stop, trammel, withhold), muta (change, displace, move, pan, permute, re-house, remove, shift), zgudui (concuss, convulse, jog, jump, shake, shake up, shock), piedicã (balk, bar, brake, check, clog, cumber, delay, difficulty, drag, drawback, embargo, encumbrance, fetter, hindrance, hold back, impediment, interference, jog, lock, marplot, objection, obstacle, obstruction, pull back, sear, set back, sprag, stay, stop, stopper, stopple, stumbling-bloc, trammel, traverse, trigger), prinde (acquire, apprehend, attach, bind, book, captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, clasp, clot, comprehend, cop, Curdle, engage, ferret, find out, fish, fix, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grow, hang, have, hit, intercept, nail, nip, overhear, pin down, reach, recruit, regain, round up, seize, set, shut, stitch, strike, succeed, tack, take, tie, work), se agita (agitate, billow, bustle, ferment, fluster, flutter, fret, fuss, rustle, seethe, squirm, toss, tumble, vibrate, wag), se mişca (bestir, move, stir, vibrate), se smuci (flounce), se zgudui (rock), smuci (lug, pull up, tug, twitch, worry, wrench), smuciturã (flounce, jerk, jolt, tug, twitch, wrench, wring), trage (absorb, booze, come, drag, drag in, drag out, draw, evolve, extract, fetch, fire, guzzle, haul, heave, lie, lug, pluck, pop, pull, pull up, rub, screw, shoot, strike off, suffer, tipple, toll, tug, worry), zdruncinãturã (Bob, jerk, jog, jolt, shake, shock), mişcare bruscã (dart, dash, fling, flirt, flounce). (various references)

Russian 

узел (bundle, fardel, hub, joint, junction, kink, knar, knot, knur, knurl, node, nodes, pack, tie, tubercle, unit), толчок (cant, dash, fillip, hitter, impetus, impulse, jab, jog, jolt, lunge, momentum, poke, push, shake, shock, stroke, thrust, toss), остановка (cessation, halt, lay over, layover, letup, locking, pause, pit stop, shut-down, shutdowns, shutoff, stand, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping, tie up, tie-up, trapping), неувязка (slip-up), зацепка (hook, toehold), задержка (backoff, backset, back-set, check, delay, detention, foot-dragging, holdback, holdup, impediment, lag, lagging, lateness, retardation, retardment, set back, setback, suppression, throwback, time-delay, time-lag), жениться (change one's condition, espouse, get married, give a hand, husband, make a match, marry), прицепляться, прицеплять сцепка;рывок, прицеплять, помеха (clog, crab, disturber, drag, drawback, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, impediment, interference, interruption, jog, let, marplot, noise, obstacle, preclusion, retardation, retardment, rub, strays, trammel), подтягивать (clamp down on, draw, trice), петля (ansa, buttonhole, hinge, kink, loop, mesh, noose, self-loop, stitch, tag). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zastoj (deadlock, halt, hold up, malfunction, misfire, pause, slowdown, stagnancy, stagnation, stand, standstill, stasis, stoppage, tie up), zapregnuti, uprezati (gear), upregnuti (harness), trzaj (jerk, lunge, lurch, snatch, start, tug, twitch, wince, wrench, yank), pritezati, pričvrstiti (affix, attach, fasten, moor, nail, seal, stay), mornarski čvor. (various references)

Spanish

tirón (haul, heave, jerk, lug, pluck, pull, tug, twitch, wrench, yank), enganche (connection, connection charge, connexion, coupling, deposit, hook, hooking, job, putting to, recruitment). (various references)

Swedish

rycka (jerk, lug, March, move, pluck, pull, switch, tug, twitch, wrench, wrest, yank), ryck (fit, flip, jerk, judder, lug, pull, snatch, start, tug, twich, twitch, whim, yank), hake (catch, crook, crotchet, fastener, fastening, grapple, grappling iron, hook, kink, pallet), häkta fast. (various references)

Thai

เทียม (ม้า), อุปสรรค (bar, handicap, rub, thorn). (various references)

Turkish

arıza (breakdown, defect, fault, obstruction, trouble), çekiştirmek (back bite, backbite, criticize maliciously, denigrate, pick), çekiverme, çekme (allure, allurement, bearing, draft, draught, draw, drawing, extraction, haul, haulage, hoist, pluck, pull, pull off, pull out, shrinkage, shrinking, soak, throwback, towage, towaway, towing, traction, withdrawal), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw), aksaklık (lameness), aksama (hobble, paralysation), çekiş (draft, draught, draw, lug, pull, traction, tractive, tug), aksilik (awkwardness, bile, contrariety, contrariness, contretemps, crossness, dourness, fractiousness, gruffness, hardness, ill luck, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, moodiness, moods, perversity, petulance, recalcitrance, reverse, rotten luck, setback, slip, slip up, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, testiness, trouble, vexatiousness), topallamak (halt, hobble, limp, walk lame), arabaya koşmak (span), bağlamak (affiliate, assign, attach, attribute, band, bandage, belay, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, connect, copulate, cord, couple, do up, engage, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, grapple, guy, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash, lash down, leash, ligature, link, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rivet, rope, settle, string, subordinate, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, truss, unite, Wed), bağlanmak (adhere, attach, be attached to, be committed, be stuck on, be tied, be wedded to, cling, conjoin, connect, engage, fasten, hang, have down on smb., hold on, lace, Wed, yoke, yoke together), evlenmek (change one's condition, espouse, get married, get spliced, hitch up, lead to the altar, make a match, marry, mate, pair off, take to wife, unite, Wed), sıyırmak (abrade, bark, brush, crease, glance off, graze, scar, scrape, shave, skim, skin, slip, slip off), takmak (affix, attach, bother, fix, fixate, give a damn, hang, hang on, hook, infix, set, snag, stick, stock, string, thread, wear), terslik (acerbity, acrimony, awkwardness, biliousness, contrariety, contrariness, crossness, cussedness, ill luck, misadventure, misfortune, moods, perversity, reverse, reversion, shortness, sullenness, tartness), aksamak (halt, have a hitch, hinder, hobble, limp). (various references)

Ukrainian

шкутильгання, шкандибати (cramble, hobble, hobble along, stump, toddle, waddle, waggle, wallow), підтягувати (carry up, hitch up), підштовхувати (boost, flirt, rattle through), причіплятися, причіпляти, прив'язувати (bind, rope, tackle, tether, tie down, tie on, tie up), поштовх (concussion, fillip, hit, impetus, impulse, jog, joggle, kick, poke, propulsion, push, put, shake, shock, thrust, toss), перешкода (back-set, baffle, balk, bar, barricade, barrier, block, bridle, check, clog, contrariety, countercheck, cramp, cumber, dike, disability, discouragement, drawback, dyke, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, hold back, interference, leap, marplot, nuisance, obex, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, occlusor, preclusion, pullback, stop, trammels, traverse, wall). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự vướng mắc (entanglement), sự khó khăn (ado, arduousness, difficulty, knottiness), sự bế tắc tạm thời, nút dây sự ngưng tạm thời, cái giật mạnh bất ngờ, cái đẩy mạnh bất ngờ. (various references)

Welsh

bachiad. (various references)

icchen. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "hitch": hitched, hitcher, hitchers, hitches, hitchhike, hitchhiked, hitchhiker, hitchhikers, hitchhikes, hitchhiking, hitching. (additional references)

Words ending with "hitch": unhitch. (additional references)

Words containing "hitch": chitchat, chitchats, chitchatted, chitchatting, unhitched, unhitches, unhitching. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hitch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gitch, hach, haith, Hentsch, hetch, hict, hicy, hinch, hitchs, Hitec, hitecc, hith, Hithi, Hsinchu, Hytec, Nimtech, nitch, Nitech, photech, titch, zitch. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chit, itch.

-2 letters: chi, hic, hit, ich, tic.

-3 letters: hi, it, ti.

+2 letters: hitched, hitcher, hitches, unhitch.

+3 letters: chitchat, chthonic, hatching, hitchers, hitching, hotching, hutching, hyacinth, ichthyic, phthalic, phthisic, rhythmic, thickish, whinchat.

+4 letters: chitchats, chthonian, dishcloth, haircloth, hatchings, hatchling, hemistich, hemstitch, hitchhike, hyacinths, phthisics, rhythmics, thatchier, thatching, thickhead, unhitched, unhitches, whinchats.

+5 letters: antichurch, arrhythmic, childbirth, chinchiest, churchiest, dishcloths, eurhythmic, haircloths, halophytic, hatcheling, hatcheries, hatchlings, helminthic, hemistichs, hitchhiked, hitchhiker, hitchhikes, holophytic, naphthenic, ophthalmic, phosphatic, phthisical, rhythmical, thatchiest, thearchies, theophanic, thickheads, torchlight, unhitching, unrhythmic, whipstitch.