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thumbing a ride

thumbing a ride is the present participle and gerund 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 thumbing a ride

What is thumbing a ride the present participle and gerund of?
Thumbing a ride is the present participle and gerund of thumb a ride.

Words near thumbing a ride in the dictionary

  1. thumbies
  2. thumbiest
  3. thumbikin
  4. thumbikins
  5. thumbing
  6. thumbing a ride
  7. thumbing down
  8. thumbing one's nose
  9. thumbing through
  10. thumbings
  11. thumbkin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thumbing 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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