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Hike   /haɪk/   Listen
Hike

noun
1.
A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure.  Synonyms: hiking, tramp.
2.
An increase in cost.  Synonyms: boost, cost increase, rise.
3.
The amount a salary is increased.  Synonyms: raise, rise, salary increase, wage hike, wage increase.  "He got a wage hike"
verb
(past & past part. hiked; pres. part. hiking)
1.
Increase.  Synonyms: boost, hike up.
2.
Walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise.  "Hike the Rockies"



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"Hike" Quotes from Famous Books



... dogs can hike along all day with that contraption behind them," affirmed a second of ...
— The Call of the Wild • Jack London
... days, the Grand Jury, with much secrecy, returned a true bill, and a day later a considerable detachment of infantry started on a dusty hike up Misery. Furtive and inscrutable Hollman eyes along the way watched them from cabin-doors, and counted them. They meant also to count them coming back, and they did not expect the totals ...
— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck
... it," explained Chick-chick. "Isn't ours. 'Fraid somebody see us with it an' think our name is Jervice. We all get on little old bike an' hike ...
— The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters - The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow • Charles Henry Lerrigo
... food ration was reduced. This caused us to have more than ordinarily vivid dreams. I happened to be awake one night when Ninnis was sledging in imagination, vociferously shouting, "Hike, hike," to the dogs; our equivalent of ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson
... little kid die last night? Mother's milk not nourishin', that's what it was, because she didn't have the right stuff to eat. An' I know, an' you know, a dozen old aunts, an' sister-in-laws, an' such, that's had to hike to the poorhouse because their folks couldn't take care ...
— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London


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