Definition of Hitch

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Definition of Hitch

Hitch

To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded.

To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.

To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter.

To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer.

A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement.

The act of catching, as on a hook, etc.

A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance.

A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch.

A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc.

A small dislocation of a bed or vein.

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Hitch Quotations

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama

Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Josh Billings

We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.
Michel Patini

I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.
Joseph Stefano

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.
James Stewart

Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.
Joseph Stefano

Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.
Joseph Stefano

My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
Dan Blocker

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.
Eddie Mathews

Hitch Translations

hitch in German is Ruck, Knoten
hitch in Norwegian is hindring, stikk, vanskelighet

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