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Hike   /haɪk/   Listen
noun
Hike  n.  
1.
The act of hiking.
2.
A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure or exercise; a tramp; a march. "With every hike there's a few laid out with their hands crossed."
3.
An increase in cost, rate, etc.; as, there was a dramatic hike in gasoline prices; a hike in the interest rates.
Synonyms: rise, boost.
4.
Hence: The amount a salary is increased; as, he got a wage hike.
Synonyms: raise, rise.


verb
Hike  v. t.  (past & past part. hiked; pres. part. hiking)  
1.
To move with a swing, toss, throw, jerk, or the like. (Dial. or Colloq.)
2.
To raise with a quick movement.
3.
To raise (a price) quickly or significantly in a single step. "They hiked gasoline prices twenty cents in less than a week."
4.
(Football) To pass (the ball) from the center to the quarterback at the start of the play; to snap (the ball).


Hike  v. i.  
1.
To hike one's self; specif., to go with exertion or effort; to tramp; to march laboriously. (Dial. or Colloq.) "If you persist in heaving and hiking like this." "It's hike, hike, hike (march) till you stick in the mud, and then you hike back again a little slower than you went."
2.
To take a long walk, especially for pleasure or exercise.





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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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