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thumb
verb
to hitchhike US, 1932- Thumbing rides is against the law in St. Paul. — Max Shulman, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, p. 185, 1951
- After that I started thumbing. — Joe Houston, The Gay Flesh, p. 16, 1965
- On University Avenue in Berkeley at the last light before the freeway on-ramp trip, the last place possible on University for hitchhiking out are groups of people thumbing, sitting with beautiful dogs, with signs for America. — The Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog, p. 36, March 1971
- I must have looked strange, standing there on the highway thumbing a ride. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 20, 1990
▶ thumb your nose
to treat someone or something contemptously US, 1973- Ted has been thumbing his nose at the business establishment ever since[.] — Kevin Leman, What A Difference A Daddy Makes, p. 162, 2000
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