intransitive. To travel by means of lifts in vehicles. Also figurative.

To seek or get (a ride or lift) in a passing vehicle by signalling with one's thumb the direction in which one hopes to travel (also figurative)…

= hitch-hike, v. Also transitive. to hitch a lift, etc.: to obtain a lift in a vehicle.

intransitive. To work as a bullock-driver's assistant (also casually, in return for having one's ‘swag’ carried); to make (one's way) by obtaining a…