english
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verb
connect to a vehicle:
Please hitch the horse to the wagon.
noun
a delay or impediment:
It became a hitch to our plans.
Simple Definitions
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hitch sth up
[ M ] CONNECT
2. If you hitch up a vehicle, you connect it so that it can be pulled, and if you hitch up an animal to a vehicle, you connect it so that it can pull the vehicle
• We watched as the farmer hitched up a team of oxen., hitch sth up
[ M ] PULL STH UP
1. to pull something, especially trousers or a skirt, upwards to a slightly higher position
• She hitched her skirt up before wading across the stream.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs
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Phrase(s): hitch someone or something (up) (to something)
to attach someone or something to something. • Please hitch the horse up to the wagon, and let’s get going. • Please hitch up the horse.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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noun ADJ. slight | last-minute There are always a few last-minute hitches at the dress rehearsal. | legal, technical There was a slight technical hitch which delayed the plane's take-off. PREP. without a ~ Everything went without a hitch. | ~ in There's been a hitch in the plans.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary