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Plural of hitch

regular plural

The plural of hitch is hitches.

Forms of hitch

Singularhitch /hɪt͡ʃ/
Pluralhitches /ˈhɪt͡ʃɪz/
Countablecountable

Hitches in a sentence

  • The service operated according to plan on the Monday morning with only a few hitches.1961 July, “Glasgow emergency - the restoration of Clydeside steam suburban services”, in Trains Illustrated, page 432
  • She served two hitches in Vietnam.
  • One way to think about half hitches and nodomes is to think of nodomes as a half hitch plus another fold around the line that is being crossed.2023 October 30, Anton Martin, “Butterfly TK”, in Shibari Study. From the entry nodome
  • The loose end of the thread ( to the right in this picture ) is finally taken under the series of hitches forming the kackling to complete the knot.1996, The New Bookbinder: Journal of Designer Bookbinders. From the entry kackling

Meaning of hitch

  1. noun A sudden pull.
  2. noun Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
  3. noun A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.

Full definition of hitch

Questions about the plural of hitch

What is the plural of hitch?
The plural of hitch is hitches.
Is hitch countable?
Hitch is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hitch (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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