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Definition of hike noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

hike

noun
 
/haɪk/
 
/haɪk/
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  1. a long walk in the country
    • They went on a ten-mile hike through the forest.
    • We could go into town but it's a real hike (= a long way) from here.
    Extra Examples
    • It's a long hike from my house to campus.
    • The boys have gone on a hike with the Scouts.
    • They met on a hike.
    Topics Hobbiesa2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • long
    • strenuous
    • ten-mile
    verb + hike
    • go on
    preposition
    • on a hike
    • hike from
    • hike to
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  2. (informal) a large or sudden increase in prices, costs, etc.
    • a tax/price hike
    • hike in something the latest hike in interest rates
    Extra Examples
    • Higher crude oil prices mean price hikes for consumers too.
    • Borrowers will be hit hard by the latest hike in interest rates.
  3. Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally dialect, as a verb): of unknown origin.
Idioms
take a hike
  1. (North American English, informal) a rude way of telling somebody to go away
See hike in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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