hitch

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hitch/hɪtʃ/

▶verb

• 1 move (something) into a different position with a jerk.

• 2 fasten or tether with a rope.

  ■ harness (a draught animal or team).

• 3 informal travel or obtain (a lift) by hitchhiking.

▶noun

• 1 a temporary difficulty.

• 2 a knot of a kind used to fasten one thing temporarily to another: an overhand hitch.

  ■ N. Amer. a device for attaching one thing to another.

• 3 informal an act of hitchhiking.

• 4 N. Amer. informal a period of service.

– phrases
get hitched informal marry.
hitch one's wagon to a star try to succeed by forming a relationship with a successful person.

– origin ME: of unknown origin.