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verb-intransitive. To go on an extended walk for pleasure or exercise.

verb-intransitive. To rise, especially to rise upward out of place: My coat had hiked up in the back.

v. To increase or raise in amount, especially abruptly: shopkeepers who hiked their prices for the tourist trade.

v. To pull or raise with a sudden motion; hitch: hiked myself onto the stone wall; hiked up her knee socks.

v. Football To snap (the ball).

n. A long walk or march.

n. An often abrupt increase or rise: a price hike.

n. Football See snap.

phrasal-verb. hike out Nautical To sit facing the sail and lean far backward and over the side of a heeling sailboat in order to counterbalance the heel.

idiom. take a hike Slang To leave because one's presence is unwanted. Often used in the imperative.

n. A long walk.

n. An abrupt increase.

n. The snap of the ball to start a play.

n. A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher

v. To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.

v. To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.

v. To snap the ball to start a play.

v. To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.

v. To pull up or tug upwards sharply.

v. To move with a swing, toss, throw, jerk, or the like.

v. To raise with a quick movement.

v. To raise (a price) quickly or significantly in a single step.

v. To pass (the ball) from the center to the quarterback at the start of the play; to snap (the ball).

verb-intransitive. To hike one's self; specif., to go with exertion or effort; to tramp; to march laboriously.

verb-intransitive. to take a long walk, especially for pleasure or exercise.

n. The act of hiking.

n. A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure or exercise; a tramp; a march.

n. an increase in cost, rate, etc..

n. the amount a salary is increased.

To thrust; push; punch or gore with the horns.

To toss up and down; swing; jolt.

To lift out with a sharp instrument; move with a jerk; pull; raise; lift.

To snatch away; run off with.

To dismiss peremptorily.

To move suddenly or hastily; go away; walk off; decamp.

n. the amount a salary is increased

n. an increase in cost

n. a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure

v. increase

v. walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise

"This hike is also on those who come to Banyo's itinerary (advance warning!)"

hiked    hikes    hiking   

increment    increase    elevate    raise    bring up    getup    lift   

hitchhiker    hitchhike    take a hike   

snap   

hiker    hiking   

tramp    march    sit out    lean out   

Dike    Ike    Mike    Pike    Reich    Spike    Tyke    Vandyke    alike    bike   

trek    climb    ride    walk    excursion    march    stroll    tramp    radius    portage