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say it: hich
hitch is a noun and verb meaning "a period of time spent in military service". It carries 12 recorded senses.
a period of time spent in military service
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”
a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls
a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot
any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
connect to a vehicle: "hitch the trailer to the car"
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hitch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.