Definitions for hitches

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hitches hitch

Spelling: [hich]

IPA: /hɪtʃ/

Hitches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in hitches (cehhist).

Definitions for hitches

noun

1. the act or fact of fastening, as to something, especially temporarily.
2. any of various knots or loops made to attach a rope to something in such a way as to be readily loosened. Compare bend1 (def 17).
3. Military Slang. a period of military service:
4. an unexpected difficulty, obstacle, delay, etc.:
5. a hitching movement; jerk or pull.
6. a hitching gait; a hobble or limp.
7. a fastening that joins a movable tool to the mechanism that pulls it.
8. Mining. a fault having a throw less than the thickness of a coal seam being mined. a notch cut in a wall or the like to hold the end of a stull or other timber.
9. a minnow, Lavinia exilicauda, inhabiting streams in the area of San Francisco and the Sacramento River basin.

Verb phrases

1. hitch up, to harness an animal to a wagon, carriage, or the like.

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten or tie, especially temporarily, by means of a hook, rope, strap, etc.; tether:
2. to harness (an animal) to a vehicle (often followed by up).
3. to raise with jerks (usually followed by up); hike up:
4. to move or draw (something) with a jerk.
5. Slang. to bind by marriage vows; unite in marriage; marry:
6. to catch, as on a projection; snag:

verb (used without object)

1. to stick, as when caught.
2. to fasten oneself or itself to something (often followed by on).
3. to move roughly or jerkily:
4. to hobble or limp.

verb (used with or without object), noun

1. hitchhike.

Origin of hitches

1400-50; 1840-50 for def 5; late Middle English hytchen, of obscure origin

Examples for hitches

hitch picks up his cane, pushes her aside, and laboriously tries to get to his feet, saying, “I'll do it myself.”

There had been a hitch at her last funeral, but she had been only an assistant there.

For weeks preceding the bash, hitch refuses to have anything to do with it.

Now, constable, do you want to hitch the other end of that arrangement on my wrist?

When hitch is feeling good, when he is not in pain, he throws himself into the business of preproduction.

After everything is in order and the call has been placed, hitch picks up the receiver and says “How do you do?”

In 1945 or 1946, hitch and Alma were in New York with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, on a publicity tour.

I expect he's all right, and there's been some hitch in getting the news through.

Then they had gathered around to hitch rides, and had been in control ever since.

Friendship reigned without a hitch from one end of the feast to the other.