pls can anybody tell me the meaning of the word hitch-hiker.?
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samir you know what is it
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I was hitchhiking through Montana one time. I was sitting on the on-ramp leading down to the freeway. I see this guy walking up the ramp from the freeway. He was dressed like a regular guy - jeans, t-shirt, tennies.\nHe walked up to me, said "Hi, how ya doin?" He noticed I was reading a book. He said, "Here's something else for you to read", and handed me a little pamphlet. He walked off as I looked at the pamphlet.\nI scanned the pamphlet for about 15-20 seconds - it dealt with Christianity. \nI turned to see if he had kept walking, but he was not there.\nIn the time space he handed me that pamphlet, and the time I turned my head, he could not have gone anywhere. It was a long on-ramp and nowhere else to go.\nEven writing about it now after 21 years give me goose bumps.
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I haven't been able to find it in the cliche or phrase dictionaries.  I've seen it in books and usually it meant "searched exhaustively."\nAn example is "The detective really covered the waterfront, and has no further clues to pursue."
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a derogatory word toward a homosexual. Just like rump ranger, assbandit, flamer, fudge packer.
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probably not much help, but I lived on the streets in Pittsburgh for like a year and got to really know what most people society would consider outcast or dangerous are like, and they really arent.  Im doin real good now, and I travel for my job, and I pick hitchhikers up all the time, at leasst once a month.  They tell me there stories.  Most are mentally unstable, and cant really function in society, and society has done nothing to help them so they just roam around, the rest just mostly had rotten luck and are trying there turn out at drifting.  Good people, never had any threatening situations, and you can usually tell if they are all dressed in dirty or ragg clothes and are unshaven with unkempt hair, with a couple of back packs, one guy i picked up even had a dog.  However I dont think I would pick up a guy that had no bags and was wearing something like a trenchcoat, you know like they have no business there.  OH YA - IF YOUR A GIRL I WOULDNT RECOMMEND PICKING UP HITCHHIKERS, PERIOD.
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I believe it meant Wagoneer.  Many men had this designation and were in the support batallions.  Support would have meat bringing supplies to the front.  They would have been in wagons and carts.  Therefore these men would have been assinged to these wagons, loading and unloading them.
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The word "means" (with an s) is defined as a method, course of action, or a way by which something is accomplished. It can also mean money, property or wealth. (As in, "He didn't have the means to pay for the trip.")
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in german it is written as Junker. the son of a noble landowner, it also means just young nobleman, then also the noble landowners themselves.
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The first I heard the term was in an old Meatloaf song where he mentioned having sex by the dashboard lights. I don't understand the context that you use it in unless he is refering to it like the lights on your dash that tell you something is wrong with your car.
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It's short for "May God speed you on your journey."  Good-bye is also a shortening, some even say corruption, of "God be with you."
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They hitchhike, dude!...\n\nor not
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Paradisians\n\nCielosos (from the Spanish root "cielo" meaning heaven or sky...I mixed it up, so this isn't actually a word, but it sounds cool!)
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Hmmmm.  Jim Darwin disappears and Normal Guy shows up making constant references to Jim Darwin.  Coincidence?  You decide.\n\nIn answer to your question, I don't see any religious meaning.  It seems to be a reference back to Nazism.
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No, it is another name for a type of vegetation found on mesas in the West.\n\nWell, I just checked the dictionary and we are all right, plus it is a word meaning the whole ecosystem of the dry, desert-like Western mesas that the road runner and shrubbery thrive in. Ha ha
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Definitions of teamster on the Web:\n\n    * A person who drives horses.\n      collections.ic.gc.ca/gatineau/glossary.html\n\n    * A person who drives a team of horses, oxen, or mules for hauling.\n      www.nps.gov/hofu/TEACHERS/vocab.html\n\n    * the driver of a team of horses doing hauling\n    * someone who drives a truck as an occupation\n      wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn\n\nThey drove horses and oxen to haul supplies to troops and during battle supplied troops and conveyed equipment like cannon.
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It's short for TrailBlazers, named for the people using the Oregon Trail. For more on the Oregon Trail,\n\nhttp://www.endoftheoregontrail.org/histhome.html
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there is a site "http://pamukkalee.sitemynet.com/traverter.htm"\n\nAnother Meaning of the Word with a bit diff spell as - traverser= Someone who moves or passes across\nEg: "the traversers slowly ascended the mountain"\n\nEnjoy :-)