hike
noun /haɪk/
/haɪk/
Idioms - a long walk in the country
- They went on a ten-mile hike through the forest.
- We could go into town but it's a real hike (= a long way) from here.
Extra ExamplesTopics Hobbiesa2- It's a long hike from my house to campus.
- The boys have gone on a hike with the Scouts.
- They met on a hike.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- long
- strenuous
- ten-mile
- …
- go on
- on a hike
- hike from
- hike to
- …
- (informal) a large or sudden increase in prices, costs, etc.
- a tax/price hike
- hike in something the latest hike in interest rates
Extra Examples- Higher crude oil prices mean price hikes for consumers too.
- Borrowers will be hit hard by the latest hike in interest rates.
Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally dialect, as a verb): of unknown origin.
Idioms
take a hike
- (North American English, informal) a rude way of telling somebody to go away