hike
pronunciation
How to pronounce hike in British English:
UK [haɪk]
How to pronounce hike in American English:
US [haɪk]
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- Noun:
- a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
- an increase in cost
- the amount a salary is increased
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- Verb:
- increase
- walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise
Word Origin
- hike (v.)
- 1809, hyke "to walk vigorously," an English dialectal word of unknown origin. A yike from 1736 answers to the sense. HIKE, v. to go away. It is generally used in a contemptuous sense. Ex. "Come, hike," i.e. take yourself off; begone. [Rev. Robert Forby, "The Vocabulary of East Anglia," London, 1830] Sense of "pull up" (as pants) first recorded 1873 in American English, and may be a variant of hitch; extended sense of "raise" (as wages) is 1867. Related: Hiked; hiking. The noun is from 1865.
Example
- 1. So why another fee hike now ?
- 2. Lower-income americans already got hit by a tax hike on smokers back in february .
- 3. And knee-jerk rich-bashing , like labour 's tax hike , seldom makes for good policy .
- 4. You can hike there or drive through the park .
- 5. They went on a hike to a nearby hot spring . They listened to tribal stories .