hitch

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For them, flu is not a disease, but rather a simple hitch-hiker.

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a period of time spent in military service

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noun

a period of time spent in military service

noun

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"

noun

an unforeseen obstacle

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hitch.

noun

a period of time spent in military service

noun

See also: arrest, check, halt, stay, stop, stoppage

noun

an unforeseen obstacle

noun

a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls

noun

a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot

noun

any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

noun

the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg

verb

to hook or entangle; "One foot caught in the stirrup"

verb

walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; "The old woman hobbles down to the store every day"

verb

jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched; "the yung filly bucked"

verb

travel by getting free rides from motorists

verb

connect to a vehicle: "hitch the trailer to the car"

Example sentences

For them, flu is not a disease, but rather a simple hitch-hiker.

You can teach kids group theory before calculus without a hitch.

Running over a trailer hitch at 70mph is a major accident.

I use it to sync to my Nook, handle book metadata, convert from format to format, all without a hitch.

He said he saw engineers pull the wires from dozens of routers handling GBs of data -- all without a hitch.

For a lark I'm going to take an old project that has been running for years without a hitch and I'm going to retro-actively add tests to the code.

Too bad we rarely get a postmortem on batshit insane production hackery that actually goes off without a hitch.

If they're going to either be suddenly shut down or have prohibitive, anti-startup pricing applied to them then why should we hitch our wagon to their horse?

I love the fact that the author thinks Windows is unsuitable because the people who are using it for displays don't know how to turn off a screensaver, but somehow those same people will magically understand how to run Linux without a hitch.