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Hike

noun

A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure. Synonyms: hiking, tramp.

An increase in cost. Synonyms: boost, cost increase, rise.

The amount a salary is increased. Synonyms: raise, rise, salary increase, wage hike, wage increase. "He got a wage hike"

verb

(past & past part. hiked; pres. part. hiking)

Increase. Synonyms: boost, hike up.

Walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise. "Hike the Rockies"

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"Hike" Quotes from Famous Books

... a missing link than a plain, ordinary man. The one that didn't faint away got the best look at him, and she's ready to take oath he ain't more'n half human. They kept fires burning all night to scare him out uh the coulee, and they're going to break camp to-day and hike for home. They say he give a screech that'd put a crimp in the devil himself, and went galloping off, jumping about twenty feet ...

— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower

... big practice hike through the wilderness who that saw him staggering along, choked with alkali dust, knouted by the sun, stabbed by the cactus, carrying two rifles belonging to worn-out soldiers in addition to his own load, looking forward to the privilege ...

— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

... Mr. Sparling. "Get some water here, and don't crowd around him! Give the boy air! Tucker, you hike for the surgeon." ...

— The Circus Boys Across The Continent • Edgar B. P. Darlington

... somewhat eased shortages. Austerity budgets and a lack of trained technicians have undermined the government's ability to implement a number of planned infrastructure development projects. Windfall profits from the hike in world oil prices in late 1990 improved the foreign payments position and may permit Tripoli to ease austerity measures. The nonoil industrial and construction sectors, which account for about 22% of GDP, have expanded from processing ...

— The 1991 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... rather a countenance of gravity than any ground of justice: for experience doth warrant that, both in persons and in times, there hath been a meeting and concurrence in learning and arms, flourishing and excelling in the same men and the same ages. For as 'for men, there cannot be a better nor the hike instance as of that pair, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, the Dictator; whereof the one was Aristotle's scholar in philosophy, and the other was Cicero's rival in eloquence; or if any man had rather call for scholars that ...

— The Advancement of Learning • Francis Bacon

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