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Hike   /haɪk/   Listen
Hike

noun
1.
A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure.  Synonyms: hiking, tramp.
2.
An increase in cost.  Synonyms: boost, cost increase, rise.
3.
The amount a salary is increased.  Synonyms: raise, rise, salary increase, wage hike, wage increase.  "He got a wage hike"
verb
(past & past part. hiked; pres. part. hiking)
1.
Increase.  Synonyms: boost, hike up.
2.
Walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise.  "Hike the Rockies"



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"Hike" Quotes from Famous Books



... to make a clean breast of the whole business? Don is everlastingly forcing me to play up to him when I would not otherwise. The suggestion that we hike over to the girls' camp and see what was going on originated with me. Don and I had been telling Dorothy you would never get things in shape over here without help from us, or men in the village. Your Girl Scout Troop has been claiming ...
— The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest • Margaret Vandercook
... rabbits' feet if you get out of this," Jack grumbled. "Suppose we take a quick hike for the boat, right now?" he added, believing the Filipinos would not be ...
— Boy Scouts in the Philippines - Or, The Key to the Treaty Box • G. Harvey Ralphson
... up and we didn't say a word, It felt just like when you have dropped your pack After a hike, and straightened out your back And seem just twice as light as ...
— "I was there" - with the Yanks in France. • C. LeRoy Baldridge
... they had gotten the better of him, but not for long, for that night at retreat when the orders for the following day were read they heard: "There will be a twenty-five-mile hike tomorrow with full equipment, and a little child shall lead them—on ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... he said dubiously; "this is hardly a woman's affair. If there's a scrap of any kind, you hike for the timber." Which was Halsey's solicitous care for ...
— The Circular Staircase • Mary Roberts Rinehart


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