Hiking

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hike \Hike\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hiked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Hiking}.] [Cf. {Hitch}.]
     1. To move with a swing, toss, throw, jerk, or the like.
        [Dial. or Colloq.]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  


     2. To raise with a quick movement.
        [PJC]
  
     3. To raise (a price) quickly or significantly in a single
        step. They hiked gasoline prices twenty cents in less than
        a week.
        [PJC]
  
     4. (Football) To pass (the ball) from the center to the
        quarterback at the start of the play; to {snap} (the
        ball).
        [PJC]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "hiking":
     addition, adjunct, aggrandizement, ambling, ambulation, ampliation,
     amplification, augmentation, backpacking, broadening, crescendo,
     deployment, dispersion, enlargement, expansion, extension,
     fanning out, flare, footing, footing it, footwork, going on foot,
     hitchhiking, hitching, hoofing, increase, legwork, lumbering,
     magnification, marching, pedestrianism, perambulation, raising,
     sauntering, splay, spread, spreading, staggering, strolling,
     thumbing, thumbing a ride, toddling, tottering, tramping, treading,
     trudging, upping, waddling, walking, widening