hitchhiker

See also: hitch-hiker

English

A hitchhiker

Hitchhikers stuck to pants

Alternative forms

• hitch-hiker

Etymology

From hitchhike +‎ -er.

Noun

hitchhiker (plural hitchhikers)

1. A person or thing that hitchhikes.
2. An item attached to a travel bug and hidden in a geocache to be found and transported to other caches or around the world.
3. (preceded by definite article) A dance move in which the dancer mimics the motions of someone thumbing a ride.
4. (informal, botany) A bur that attaches and clings to clothing, or a bur-bearing plant.
5. (radio, advertising) An advertisement at the end of a programme.

   Coordinate term: cowcatcher

   • 1945, Charles Harold Sandage, Radio Advertising for Retailers, page 186:

     […] and networks have taken steps to modify or eliminate the bunching of spots and commercials between programs which results from the use of hitchhikers and cowcatchers.

Translations

a person who hitchhikes

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ավտոստոպով ճամփորդող (avtostopov čampʻordoġ)
• Catalan: autoestopista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 搭車者 / 搭车者 (dāchēzhě), 搭車人 / 搭车人 (dāchērén), 搭車的 / 搭车的 (zh) (dāchē de)

• Czech: stopař (cs) m, stopařka (cs) f
• Danish: tomler, blaffer
• Dutch: lifter (nl) m, liftster f
• Esperanto: petveturisto
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: peukalokyytiläinen, (slang) liftari
• French: autostoppeur (fr), pouceux (fr) (Quebec, informal)
• Galician: autostopista m or f
• Georgian: მოგზაური (mogzauri)
• German: Anhalter (de) m, Tramper (de) m
• Greek: άτομο που ταξιδεύει με οτοστόπ n (átomo pou taxidévei me otostóp)
• Hungarian: stoppos (hu)
• Ido: autostopero (io)
• Italian: autostoppista (it) m or f, gitante (it) m, turista (it) m
• Japanese: ヒッチハイクする人 (ja) (hitchihaiku suru hito)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: īkšķotājs m, īkšķotāja f
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: автосто́пер m (avtostóper), автосто́перка f (avtostóperka)
• Malay: pengembara tumpang
• Mongolian: замын машинд дайгдаж яваа хүн (zamyn mašind dajgdaž javaa xün)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: haiker m

  Nynorsk: haikar m

• Polish: autostopowicz (pl) m, autostopowiczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: caroneiro m
• Romanian: autostopist (ro) m, autostopistă (ro) f
• Russian: автосто́пщик (ru) m (avtostópščik), автосто́пщица (ru) f (avtostópščica), путеше́ствующий автосто́пом m (putešéstvujuščij avtostópom), путеше́ствующая автосто́пом f (putešéstvujuščaja avtostópom)
• Slovak: autostopár m
• Spanish: autoestopista (es) m or f, autostopista (es) m or f
• Swedish: liftare (sv) c
• Tamil: கெஞ்சுப்பயணி (keñcuppayaṇi)
• Turkish: otostopçu (tr)
• Ukrainian: автосто́пщик m (avtostópščyk), автосто́пщиця f (avtostópščycja)
• Vietnamese: người xin có giang