hitch a ride
idiom
informal
: to get a ride in a passing vehicle
Her car broke down, so she had to hitch a ride with a passing truck.
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If your cat or dog is outside and not wearing a flea protection product, fleas hitch a ride indoors with them.
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2024
The virus can hitch a ride from farm to farm on the soles of workers' boots, on the wheels of cars, trucks and trailers as well as on farming equipment if they all are not cleaned and sanitized properly, the USDA found.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2024
What better way to hitch a ride for her and SpongeBob all the way from the Pacific Ocean to the Lone Star State?
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
Imaginationland office staffers busily ordering up Anxiety’s worst-case scenarios; and the Parade of Future Careers, which allows the outcasts to hitch a ride on a Supreme Court Justice float.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2024
The virus can hitch a ride from farm to farm on the soles of workers' boots, on the wheels of cars, trucks and trailers as well as on farming equipment if they all are not cleaned and sanitized properly, the USDA found.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2024
What better way to hitch a ride for her and SpongeBob all the way from the Pacific Ocean to the Lone Star State?
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
Imaginationland office staffers busily ordering up Anxiety’s worst-case scenarios; and the Parade of Future Careers, which allows the outcasts to hitch a ride on a Supreme Court Justice float.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024
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