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hitchhike

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To try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road, generally by either sticking out one's finger or thumb or holding a sign with one's stated destination.

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Every day, she has to walk or hitchhike to work.

Laliberté left Canada at age 18 to hitchhike across Europe, where he earned money playing his accordion and met street performers who taught him the arts of fire eating and stilt walking.

In 1977 he dropped out of Kent State University (Ohio) to hitchhike around the United States.

The latest picture after Frimpong tweeted a parody image of Manchester United manager David Moyes attempting to hitchhike his way back to Everton's Goodison Park, following the shock 2-1 defeatoto Sunderland in the League Cup semi-final.

Howell would hitchhike to McLaughry's airbase to support him as other members of the crew became interested in the changes in his life.

Nick, Leeds It was the evening of the fourth day on our hitchhike to Morocco and we'd reached the South of Spain.

He was such a fan he'd hitchhike from New York to San Francisco to see them.

Her backpacker friend, Jeanette Muller, had tried to persuade her not to hitchhike and even offered her some money to take the bus instead.

"When I was a teenager I used to hitchhike," she recalled, "and camp, and spend a few days on my own each year.

The one difference is that this time round, rather than hitchhike their way across the vast expanses of the Asian subcontinent, or slum it in 50p-a-night hostels, travellers are hopping on planes and flexing their credit cards to check in to six-star former palaces that have been repackaged as retreats for the materially devout.

When you're fourteen, I think you ought to hitchhike across the country, go into a truckstop, stop there, have a cup of coffee, and see what men are really like.

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