hitch sth up
— phrasal verb with hitch uk/hɪtʃ/us/hɪtʃ/verb
(PULL STH UP)
to pull something, especially trousers or a skirt, upwards to a slightly higher position:
She hitched her skirt up before wading across the stream.
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Pulling
- draft
- drag
- draught
- draw sth up
- haul
- heave
- heave-ho
- heft
- pluck
- pluck at sth
- pull
- reel
- retract
- suck
- tow
- tow-away
- traction
- tweak
- twitch
- wrench
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(CONNECT)
If you hitch up a vehicle, you connect it so that it can be pulled, and if you hitch up an animal to a vehicle, you connect it so that it can pull the vehicle:
We watched as the farmer hitched up a team of oxen.
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Connecting and combining
- abut
- adjoin
- aggregate
- allied
- amalgamate
- assemblage
- bind
- conjunction
- desegregate
- dovetail
- eclectic
- entwine
- fuse
- fusion
- lump sb/sth together
- marriage
- marry
- meld
- merge
- mesh
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