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hitch
noun- a period of duty or service US, 1905
- Another hitch in prison and you’ll be put away for life. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 257, 1957
- “What’s this I hear about you wanting to get out of the Army now that your hitch is almost up?” he asked. — David Reed, Up Front in Vietnam, p. 77, 1967
- Three hitches of four years each. — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 2, 1970
- Yes, but how many ex-baton twirlers with only high school, two seasons with a religious revival show, and a nine-year hitch in a rodeo trailer made twenty grand a year and expenses? — Elmore Leonard, Touch, p. 25, 1977
- a jail sentence US
- Well, I sent here a kite by my cellmate / the boy who just finished his hitch and was free. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 116, 1964
- I did three hitches in Leavenworth and I did a ten-year bit here, and now I’ve got life here. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 97, 1972
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