hitchhike

To try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road, generally by either sticking out one's finger or thumb or holding a sign with one's stated destination.

She made a great many photographs, and hitchhiked her way back to Lanchow again, and thence to Peking.

Holly came from Miami, F-L-A / Hitchhiked her way across the U.S.A.

To try to get (a ride) in this manner.

Pamela hitchhiked a ride to New York.

“I’m not goin’ to tell you what happened to me,” Asey said, “from the time I found her till I finally managed to hitchhike a ride to town. I want to forget that period of my life. […]”

To be carried along with something else.

In genetic hitchhiking, a gene is propagated because it occurs in conjunction with a favourable mutation.

In cultural hitchhiking, a cultural trait spreads with a technologically advanced population.

A journey made by hitchhiking.

Alternative form of hitchhiker (“advertisement at the end of a programme”).

There are just too many diseases for each to have its own special organization, complete with radio hitchhikes, sponsored ads, expensive brochures, pledge cards, team captains and collection envelopes.