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  1. intransitive verb To go on an extended walk for pleasure or exercise.
  2. intransitive verb To rise, especially to rise upward out of place: My coat had hiked up in the back.
  3. transitive verb To increase or raise in amount, especially abruptly: shopkeepers who hiked their prices for the tourist trade.
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trek ·  climb ·  ride ·  walk ·  excursion ·  march ·  stroll ·  tramp ·  radius ·  portage ·  vacation ·  decline

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hike:   hikes ·  hiked ·  hiking
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  1. Also hyke; a widely used dialect word, parallel to hickand hitch, recently emerging into some colloquial use; prob. orig. an imitative word, parallel to hit, expressing a quick stroke or motion; compare English Fries, hikken, thrust, push, punch. See hick and hitch.
 

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