hitch

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  1. transitive verb To fasten or catch temporarily with or as if with a loop, hook, or noose.
  2. transitive verb To connect or attach, as to a vehicle: hitched the horses to the sleigh.
  3. transitive verb To move or raise by pulling or jerking: hitch up one's suspenders.
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  • Dojo has dojo. hitch which is u sed specifically for dealing w ith context fun like this ... —  Planet Python
  • I made a test on just the first 2 VOBs and it went without a hitch, and Toast didn't complain about the result either. —  VideoHelp.com Forum
  • To ensure the event comes off with out a hitch, the inauguration event needs to have a dry run or two. —  The DC Traveler
  • The procedure went off without a hitch, and my dad visited him the next day, telling me later that my Grandpa was his normal, albeit incoherent, grouchy self.
  • The Official antsmarching. org After-Parties went off without a hitch, and a fantastic time was had by all. —  DMB Headlines Courtesy of antsmarching.org
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Probably from Middle English hytchen, icchen, to move, jerk.

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  1. from Middle English hitchen, hytchen, hichen, hychen; origin uncertain: (1) apparently an assibilated form of the verb which remains in modern English dial, hick, hop, spring, hike, swing, toss, throw, etc. (see hick, hike): cf. German dial. hicken, hickeln, hicksen, equivalent to G. (nasalized) hinken (later prob. Swedish hinka, Danish hinke), go lame, limp, hobble; or (2) perhaps from Old Dutch hutsen, Dutch hotsen, shake, jolt, jog, later ult. English (Scots) hotch, move by jerks: see hotch and. hustle.
  2. from hitch, v.
  3. apparently California Indian: see chi, chigh.
 

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