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hitching up

hitching up is the present participle and gerund of hitch up.

Meaning of hitch up

Verb

hitch up (third-person singular simple present hitches up, present participle hitching up, simple past and past participle hitched up)

  1. To fasten up.
  2. To pull up, or raise with a jerking movement.
    • hitch up your skirt
  3. To attach (a horse, etc.) to a vehicle.
    • Hitch up the trailer.
  4. (passive, regional, "get hitched up") To marry.

Questions about hitching up

What is hitching up the present participle and gerund of?
Hitching up is the present participle and gerund of hitch up.

Words near hitching up in the dictionary

  1. hitching one's wagon to a star
  2. hitching post
  3. hitching posts
  4. hitching rail
  5. hitching rails
  6. hitching up
  7. hitching-bar
  8. hitching-bars
  9. hitchings
  10. Hitchins
  11. Hitchinson

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hitching up (page history and authors); hitch up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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