[V] to travel by asking for free rides in other people's cars, by standing at the side of the road and trying to get passing cars to stop:
They hitch-hiked around Europe.
seealsoHITCH
hitch-hiker noun:
He picked up two hitch-hikers on the road to Salisbury.
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