hiken.
/hʌɪk/, U.S. /haɪk/ colloquial. Originally dialect and U.S.
1. A vigorous or laborious walk; a tramp or march; a walking tour or expedition undertaken for exercise or pleasure. Also figurative. on hike, on the tramp, hiking.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking for exercise or recreation > hiking or rambling > an act of
hike1865
randonnée1921
nature ramble1925
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > on foot [phrase] > hiking
on hike1907
1865 S. Hale Lett. (1919) 15 I've been engaged this week in a pecunious heik; to wit, getting money from the ladies of the Parish to get a new gown for Dr. Hedge.
1868 S. Hale Lett. (1919) 45 I ascended the Grand Pyramid, Lucretia got half-way..and Susie didn't try. It is a fearful heik.
a1902 Scribner's Mag. (Webster 1902) With every hike there's a few laid out with their hands crossed.
1903 S. E. White Forest ii. 18 All other utensils belong to permanent camps, or open-water cruises,—not to ‘hikes’ in the woods.
1907 R. W. Service Songs of Sourdough (1908) 59 And I burrowed a hole in the glowing coal, and I stuffed in Sam McGee. Then I made a hike, for I didn't like to hear him sizzle so.
1907 R. E. Beach Barrier (1908) iv. 53 He's the feller that killed the gold-commissioner. Of course that put him on the hike again.
1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap ix. 369 What's the matter with him and Lon taking a swift hike down to New York?
1921 Outward Bound June 10/1 Chinese Boy Scouts..on ‘hike’ on the veldt of South Africa.
1921 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 262/1 Dempsey had passed the afternoon in a ‘limbering-up hike’.
1932 News Chron. 28 Apr. 1/2 He then began a non-stop hike up and down the corridors of the hospital that had lasted till late this afternoon.
1970 H. D. Corbin Recreation Leadership (ed. 3) xxiii. 333 The craving for adventure can be nurtured by a hike or an exploration perhaps more than by any other activity.
2. An increase (in prices, wages, etc.). Chiefly North American.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [noun] > (an) increase in price
enhancing1490
hoising1568
enhancement1577
advance1642
rise1645
inflammation1821
exaltation1866
raise1883
surpreciation1884
bulge1890
up1897
hike1931
uplift1949
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > wage structures and scales > [noun] > level at which wages set > increase in
hike1931
wage-price spiral1946
wage spiral1948
uplift1949
wage drift1963
wage hike1976
wage inflation1976
1931 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 5 Aug. The hike was occasioned by the fact that cigarette butts..are now only a half inch.
1948 Herald-Press (St. Joseph, Mich.) 14 Aug. 3/1 There is enough unfilled demand for new cars to absorb a lot more price hikes.
1966 Economist 28 May 986/1 A wave of spending at the end of last year in anticipation of hikes in indirect taxes.
1968 Observer 28 Jan. 12/3 A 7.25 per cent price hike in two months.
1969 Eugene (Oregon) Register-Guard 3 Dec. 1 a (heading) Senate votes hike in tax exemptions.
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colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). to take a hike: to go away, to make oneself scarce. Usually in imperative, expressing irritation or antagonism; ‘get lost’.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
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afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
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part?c1225
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to-partc1275
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atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
1944 N.Y. Times 18 May 17/2 Anybody who doesn't believe it can take a hike.
1970 J. Bouton Ball Four iv. 120 I remember once leaning over the dugout trying to tell Al Dark how great he was..when he looked over at me and said, ‘Take a hike, son. Take a hike.’
1982 E. Griffin Getting Together i. 23 When he found out that others expected him to raise funds, he took a hike.
2004 R. B. Parker Double Play (2005) ix. 53 I know who you are... I know who your father is. Now take a hike.
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hikev.
/hʌɪk/, U.S. /haɪk/ colloquial. Originally dialect and U.S.
1. intransitive (a) To walk or march vigorously or laboriously. (b) To walk for pleasure; to go for a long walk, or walking tour, spec. in the country. Also, to travel by any means.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)]
nimeOE
becomec885
teec888
goeOE
i-goc900
lithec900
wendeOE
i-farec950
yongc950
to wend one's streetOE
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i-wende971
shakeOE
winda1000
meteOE
wendOE
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seekc1200
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teemc1275
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strake13..
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to choose one's gatea1325
journeyc1330
reachc1330
repairc1330
wisec1330
cairc1340
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dressa1375
passa1375
tenda1375
puta1382
proceedc1392
doa1400
fanda1400
haunta1400
snya1400
take?a1400
thrilla1400
trace?a1400
trinea1400
fangc1400
to make (also have) resortc1425
to make one's repair (to)c1425
resort1429
ayrec1440
havea1450
speer?c1450
rokec1475
wina1500
hent1508
persevere?1521
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rechec1540
yede1563
bing1567
march1568
to go one's ways1581
groyl1582
yode1587
sally1590
track1590
way1596
frame1609
trickle1629
recur1654
wag1684
fadge1694
haul1802
hike1809
to get around1849
riddle1856
bat1867
biff1923
truck1925
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > laboriously or aimlessly
haik?a1500
harl?a1513
trudge1547
palt1560
ploda1566
traipse1593
trash1607
truck1631
tramp1643
vamp1654
trudgea1657
daggle1681
trape1706
trampoose1794
hike1809
slog1872
taigle1886
pudge1891
sludge1908
schlep1937
schlump1957
1809 S. Wesley Lett. (1875) 32 Adieu for the present,—we must Contrive one more Pull at Surry before I hyke over to Staffordshire.
1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 44 Hike off, to go away; to go off. Used generally in a bad sense.
1868 S. Hale Lett. (1919) 39 This day we moved over to the Thebes side and were to have done Karnak..but..I was really sick with heiking.
a1872 J. M. Bailey Folks in Danbury (1877) 55 You've got to hike aroun', and fling some style inter the victuals.
1884 Daily Tel. 2 Feb. 3/1 (Farmer) We three, not having any regler homes..hike about for a living.
1886 S. Hale Lett. (1919) 157 You see the Churches can't do much, but Mr. Warner is wild to be heiking about.
a1902 Scribner's Mag. (Webster 1902) It's hike, hike, hike (march) till you stick in the mud, and then you hike back again a little slower than you went.
1904 Chicago Evening Post 23 Aug. 7 These girls had hiked up the dizzy trail along the face of Glacier to the summit.
1910 S. E. White Rules of Game iii. xii ‘I'm going to hike out before breakfast,’ said he before turning in, ‘so if you'll just show me where the lantern is, I won't bother you in the morning.’
1910 S. E. White Rules of Game v. viii No animal in its senses would hike uphill and then down again.
1920 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 341 To take stick and pack, and ‘hike’ away from these cities for hundreds or thousands of miles.
1926 Glasgow Herald 25 Aug. 8 Guides in gay girlhood will hike through the hollow.
1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 149 I told him I was a busy man and could not spend my life hiking round the world in search of Garridebs.
1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xi. 101 Upon returning to Sydney I hiked out to Watson's Bay.
1937 Amer. Speech 12 162/1 High school students have used hike to mean going to a play spot, either by automobile, by hayrack, or on foot.
1971 Sci. Amer. June 16/3 I occasionally take time off to hike in the mountains and ski.
2. transitive.absolute.1902 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. If you persist in heaving and hiking like this. Kipling.
a. To force to move or go; to convey forcibly or laboriously; to pull on, up, over, etc.; to ‘drag out’; to increase (a price, etc.). Also figurative.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull
teea900
drawOE
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pullc1300
tugc1320
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retract?a1475
hook1577
tew1600
hike1867
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > for exercise or recreation > hike or ramble
ramble1711
hike1867
stram1869
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (transitive)] > increase (prices)
raise?a1513
enhance1542
enhaulse1600
exhance1667
inflamea1687
to run up1709
rise1740
to put up1838
hike1904
up1934
price-gouge1940
uplift1962
1867 S. Hale Lett. (1919) 32 Our side-saddles were heiked on to them.
1869 Punch 9 Jan. 8/2 If they finds any sitch thing as a jemmy about yer,..they'll hike yer off to be tried for intendin' to commit a felony.
1870 F. P. Verney Lettice Lisle xxiii. 258 I'd like to hike out the whole boiling o' um.
1886 S. Hale Lett. (1919) 163 Tuesday he heiked us all forth early in the morning to the lake.
1899 Strand Mag. Apr. 454/1 We'll join hands end lay ourselves flat on the rock so thet you can hike your head over, and look all you want to.
1904 Topeka Capital 10 June 4 City Center kept the price of ice cream sodas at five cents until the State Sunday School convention struck town, and then the scale was hiked to ten cents.
1915 T. Burke Nights in Town 119 Two bare~armed ladies, with skirts hiked up most indelicately behind them.
1921 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 835/2 I hiked him into a taxicab.
1927 Blackwood's Mag. July 11/1 We flitted across the road like ghosts in the moonlight, hiking our equipage, and deposited same at the door of a wooden inn.
1929 W. P. Ridge Affect. Regards 117 Saw where I was paying attention..and then barged in... And apparently managed to hike me out!
1969 C. Irving Fake! (1970) xii. 147 To provide a testimonial which..was also so classy that it hiked the price to its limit, they hit on a scheme.
1973 Observer 22 July 13/1 The Bank of England hiked its minimum lending rate..to 9 per cent.
b. intransitive. To work upwards out of place. Const. up.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [verb (intransitive)] > work upwards
ride1840
hikec1873
c1873 M. Schele de Vere MS. Notes 488 (D.A.E.) What makes y[ou]r dress hike up so?
1890 Dial. Notes 1 61 The curtain hikes or hikes up.
1902 G. H. Lorimer Lett. Merchant ix. 119 We boys who couldn't walk across the floor without feeling that our pants had hiked up till they showed our feet to the knee,..didn't like him.
1948 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 4 Dec. 127/2 When I sit down, it hikes up.
Derivatives
hiker n. /ˈhaɪkə(r)/ one who hikes or goes on a hike.
/ˈhaɪkə(r)/ one who hikes or goes on a hike.ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > one going on foot > for exercise or recreation > rambler or hiker
rambler1888
hiker1913
Wandervogel1928
trekker1932
tramper1960
1913 F. H. Harris Dartmouth out o' Doors 32 While building strong physiques for themselves, the cross-country ‘hikers’ are providing for happier possibilities for the generations to come.
1927 Daily Express 24 May 3/5 We [of the Camping Club] have 3,000 members... Most of these are solitary ‘hikers’, who carry all their kit with them.
1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Sept. 710/4 A special kind of traveller, belonging to the class of ‘hikers’.
1931 Daily Tel. 21 Jan. 8/6 ‘Hikers'’ Hostels at 1s. a Night.
1972 L. L. Bean, Inc. Catal. (Freeport, Maine) Spring 8 Sierra club cup for hikers and campers.
ˈhiking n. (also attributive)
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking for exercise or recreation > hiking or rambling
rambling1745
tramping1863
hiking1901
wandervogeling1924
1901 Princeton Alumni Weekly 518/1 Here I got my first chance at ‘hiking’ in the Philippines.
1923 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring–Summer 51 New styles for misses, including the hiking suit and costume skirt.
1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 20 July 18/4 Women's Tweed Hiking Breeches..of good grade materials, smart fawn and grey mixtures; well tailored and buttoned at the knee.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 May 368/1 The sturdy young ‘heroes’ who accompanied him on the hiking adventures.
1931 Daily Tel. 21 May 16/2 The widespread hiking movement in Germany and other Continental countries.
1959 M. Shadbolt New Zealanders 71 He was used to hiking.
1972 Sci. Amer. July 13/1 I enjoy cross-country skiing in the winter and hiking and bicycling the rest of the year.
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transitive. American Football. Of the centre: to pass (the football) from the ground quickly backwards between the legs to another player, typically the quarterback, in order to put the ball into play. Often in imperative as a command made by the quarterback. In quot. 1922: (of the quarterback) to put (the ball) into play by calling ‘hike’.
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1922 J. W. Heisman Princ. of Football xiii. 282 The defense is misled into watching Q (who started to the right in advance of the snap and ‘hikes’ the ball on the run).
1928 Burlington (Iowa) Gaz. 9 Nov. 17/6 I was not pushing him over, just boxing his ears as he hiked the ball back each time.
1939 Athletic Jrnl. Sept. 12/3 As soon as everyone was set, the quarterback called, ‘Hike’, which was the snapping signal.
1988 D. O'Brien Rites of Autumn iii. 83 The ball was hiked and everyone went out for a pass.
1997 L. B. Komie Last Jewish Shortstop in Amer. vi. 56 ‘Ready, set, hike!’ he called out, and dropped a soft pass to Mark.
2010 Stanly (N. Carolina) News & Press (Nexis) 14 June The center hikes the football to the fullback and he spins and hands the ball off to me.
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