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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To go on an extended walk for pleasure or exercise.
  2. v. To rise, especially to rise upward out of place: My coat had hiked up in the back.
  3. v. To increase or raise in amount, especially abruptly: shopkeepers who hiked their prices for the tourist trade.
  4. v. To pull or raise with a sudden motion; hitch: hiked myself onto the stone wall; hiked up her knee socks.
  5. v. Football To snap (the ball).
  6. n. A long walk or march.
  7. n. An often abrupt increase or rise: a price hike.
  8. n. Football See snap.
  9. hike out Nautical To sit facing the sail and lean far backward and over the side of a heeling sailboat in order to counterbalance the heel.
  10. idiom. take a hike Slang To leave because one's presence is unwanted. Often used in the imperative.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To thrust; push; punch or gore with the horns.
  2. To toss up and down; swing; jolt.
  3. To lift out with a sharp instrument; move with a jerk; pull; raise; lift.
  4. To snatch away; run off with.
  5. To dismiss peremptorily.
  6. To move suddenly or hastily; go away; walk off; decamp.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A long walk.
  2. n. An abrupt increase.
  3. n. American football The snap of the ball to start a play.
  4. n. A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher
  5. v. To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.
  6. v. To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
  7. v. American football To snap the ball to start a play.
  8. v. nautical To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
  9. v. To pull up or tug upwards sharply.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. Dial. or Colloq. To move with a swing, toss, throw, jerk, or the like.
  2. v. To raise with a quick movement.
  3. v. To raise (a price) quickly or significantly in a single step.
  4. v. (Football) To pass (the ball) from the center to the quarterback at the start of the play; to snap (the ball).
  5. v. Dial. or Colloq. To hike one's self; specif., to go with exertion or effort; to tramp; to march laboriously.
  6. v. to take a long walk, especially for pleasure or exercise.
  7. n. The act of hiking.
  8. n. A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure or exercise; a tramp; a march.
  9. n. an increase in cost, rate, etc..
  10. n. the amount a salary is increased.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the amount a salary is increased
  2. n. an increase in cost
  3. n. a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
  4. v. increase.
  5. v. walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise

Etymologies

  1. From English dialectal hyke ("to walk vigorously"), probably a Northern form of hitch, from Middle English hytchen, hichen, icchen ("to move, jerk, stir"). Cognate with Scots hyke ("to move with a jerk"), German dialectal hicken ("to hobble, walk with a limp"), Danish hinke ("to hop"). More at hick. (Wiktionary)
  2. Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby In the stats there's a hike spike in early 1990s. Sep 20, 2010

  • alejinha Hike prices up mean to walk up the prices.
    Original meaning is to Hike a hill. Sep 19, 2010

  • uselessness Also, a long walk. :-) Dec 15, 2006

  • zanshin When crewing on a small (or even large, I suppose) sailboat, the act of hiking is using the weight of the crew as movable ballast to offset the heeling of the craft. Dec 15, 2006

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