hitch up

English

Verb

hitch up (third-person singular simple present hitches up, present participle hitching up, simple past and past participle hitched up)

  1. To fasten up.
  2. To pull or raise with a jerk.
    The sailor hitched up his trousers.
  3. To attach (a horse, etc.) to a vehicle.
    Hitch up the grey mare.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hitch up in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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