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thumbed a ride

thumbed a ride is the simple past and past participle of thumb a ride.

Meaning of thumb a ride

Verb

thumb a ride (third-person singular simple present thumbs a ride, present participle thumbing a ride, simple past and past participle thumbed a ride)

  1. (US, idiomatic, intransitive) To hitchhike.

Questions about thumbed a ride

What is thumbed a ride the simple past and past participle of?
Thumbed a ride is the simple past and past participle of thumb a ride.

Words near thumbed a ride in the dictionary

  1. thumb-up
  2. thumbable
  3. thumbboard
  4. thumbboards
  5. thumbed
  6. thumbed a ride
  7. thumbed down
  8. thumbed one's nose
  9. thumbed through
  10. Thumbelina
  11. Thumbelinas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thumbed a ride (page history and authors); thumb a ride (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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