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thumbs a ride

thumbs a ride is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 thumbs a ride

What is thumbs a ride the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Thumbs a ride is the third-person singular simple present indicative of thumb a ride.

Words near thumbs a ride in the dictionary

  1. thumbprint
  2. thumbprinted
  3. thumbprinting
  4. thumbprints
  5. thumbs
  6. thumbs a ride
  7. thumbs down
  8. thumbs downs
  9. thumbs on the scale
  10. thumbs on the scales
  11. thumbs one's nose

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thumbs 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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