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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



... out upon the road, a poet with a pedler's load I mostly sing a hearty song, and take a chew and hike along, a-handing out my samples fine of Cheero Brand of sweet sunshine, and peddling optimistic pokes and stable lines of japes and jokes to Lyceums and other folks, to Rotarys, Kiwanis' Clubs, and feel I ain't like other dubs. And then ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis

... a time, please!" he begged. "What do you think I am, anyhow—an encyclopaedia? To get there you go from here to Portview, and then along the coast to a place called Timminsport. From Timminsport you have either to take a sleigh or else hike to the camp, which is about five or six miles away. There is an old fellow, named Jed Wallop, who lives near the property in a little shack some distance from the bungalow. If we want him to, he will get ...
— The Rover Boys on a Hunt - or The Mysterious House in the Woods • Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)

... the sunlight and shadow among pine and hemlock where grew mosses, ferns and flowers, made vast sheets of rich mosaic. The hermit and veery thrush sang in the woods around, tree swallows cut the air above in graceful flight, and even the lone scout out for a hike, carrying his supplies, had yielded to his environment and sang such a rapturous strain (to which a redwing whistled a gurgling accompaniment), we were reminded of these lines from Roger's "Human Life": "And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour a ...
— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand

... Reagan on the sidewalk, rapping with his club. ''Tis not Jerome. 'Tis by order of the Polis Commissioner. Turn out every one of yez and hike yerselves ...
— The Voice of the City • O. Henry

... activities, camping is the best, and this means all stages of life in the open, from the day's hike, with one meal out of doors, to the overnight or week-end hike, and finally the real, big camp, open all summer. Girl scouts learn how to dress for outdoor living, how to walk without fatigue, and how to provide themselves with food, warmth, and shelter, so that ...
— Educational Work of the Girl Scouts • Louise Stevens Bryant


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