Usually means: Temporary obstacle or minor problem.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word hitch:

General (34 matching dictionaries)
  1. hitch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hitch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hitch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hitch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hitch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hitch, hitch: Wordnik
  7. hitch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hitch, hitch: Wiktionary
  9. hitch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hitch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hitch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hitch, hitch: Dictionary.com
  13. hitch (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hitch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hitch (album), Hitch (film), Hitch (fish), Hitch (movie), Hitch (route), Hitch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hitch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hitch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hitch: Rhymezone
  19. Hitch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hitch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. HITCH: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Hitch: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. hitch: Free Dictionary
  24. hitch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. hitch: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. hitch: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. hitch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. Hitch: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hitch (disambiguation), hitch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hitch (disambiguation), hitch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Hitch (disambiguation), hitch: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hitch: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hitch: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hitch, hitch, hitch, hitch, hitch, hitch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hitch: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. HITCH: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Hitch: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See hitched as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A sudden pull.
noun:  Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
noun:  A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
noun:  (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
noun:  A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.
noun:  (military, slang) A period of time spent in the military.
noun:  A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
noun:  (mining) A hole cut into the wall of a mine on which timbers are rested.
verb:  (transitive) To pull with a jerk.
verb:  (transitive) To attach, tie or fasten.
verb:  (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
verb:  (intransitive) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
verb:  (intransitive) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
verb:  (intransitive, UK) To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
noun:  A surname transferred from the given name.
noun:  (informal) Alfred Hitchcock
verb:  (informal, transitive) Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride. [To try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road, generally by either sticking out one's finger or thumb or holding a sign with one's stated destination.]

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