[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hike \hike\, n.
   1. the act of hiking.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   2. a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure or exercise;
      a tramp; a march. wordnet sense 1
      pjc

            with every hike there's a few laid out with their
            hands crossed.                        --scribner's
                                                  mag.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   3. an increase in cost, rate, etc.; as, there was a dramatic
      hike in gasoline prices; a hike in the interest rates.
      wordnet sense 2

   syn: rise, boost.
        wordnet 1.5

   4. hence: the amount a salary is increased; as, he got a wage
      hike. wordnet sense 3

   syn: raise, rise.
        wordnet 1.5

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hike \hike\, v. t. imp.  p. p. hiked; p. pr.  vb. n.
   hiking. cf. hitch.
   1. to move with a swing, toss, throw, jerk, or the like.
      dial. or colloq.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   2. to raise with a quick movement.
      pjc

   3. to raise a price quickly or significantly in a single
      step. they hiked gasoline prices twenty cents in less than
      a week.
      pjc

   4. football to pass the ball from the center to the
      quarterback at the start of the play; to snap the
      ball.
      pjc
see also:
hiked hiking hitch snap 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hike \hike\, v. i.
   1. to hike one's self; specif., to go with exertion or
      effort; to tramp; to march laboriously. dial. or colloq.
      "if you persist in heaving and hiking like this."
      --kipling.

            it's hike, hike, hike march till you stick in the
            mud, and then you hike back again a little slower
            than you went.                        --scribner's
                                                  mag.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   2. to take a long walk, especially for pleasure or exercise.
      pjc

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

hike
     n 1: a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure syn: tramp
     2: an increase in cost; "they asked for a 10 rise in rates"
        syn: rise, boost, cost increase
     3: the amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3 raise"; "he
        got a wage hike" syn: raise, rise, wage hike, wage
        increase, salary increase
     v 1: increase; "the landlord hiked up the rents" syn: hike up,
           boost
     2: walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise; "we
        were hiking in colorado"; "hike the rockies"
see also:
tramp rise boost cost increase raise wage hike 
wage increase salary increase hike up 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

170 moby thesaurus words for "hike":
   access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation,
   add to, addition, advance, aggrandize, aggrandizement, airing,
   amble, amplification, amplify, appreciation, ascent, augment,
   augmentation, backpack, ballooning, bloat, bloating, blow up, boom,
   boost, broaden, broadening, build, build up, buildup, bulk,
   bulk out, buoy up, cast up, constitutional, crescendo, defile,
   develop, development, dilate, distend, edema, elevate, elevation,
   enlarge, enlargement, erect, escalate, exalt, expand, expansion,
   explore, extend, extension, fatten, file, file off, fill out,
   flood, footslog, forced march, gain, glee, go on parade,
   goose-step, greatening, growth, gush, heave, heft, heighten, heist,
   hike up, hoick, hoist, hold up, huff, increase, increment, inflate,
   inflation, jack up, jaunt, jerk up, jocularity, jocundity, jollity,
   joviality, jump, jump up, knock up, leap, lengthen, levitate, lift,
   lift up, lob, loft, magnify, march, maximize, merriment, mounting,
   multiplication, mush, parade, parlay, peripatetic journey,
   peripateticism, perk up, productiveness, proliferation, promenade,
   puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put up, pyramid, raise, raise up,
   ramble, rarefy, rear, rear up, rise, rove, saunter, schlep, set up,
   sky, snowballing, spread, stick up, stretch, stroll, sufflate,
   surge, swell, swelling, thicken, throw up, traipse, tramp, trudge,
   tumescence, turn, up, upbuoy, upcast, upheave, uphoist, uphold,
   uplift, upping, upraise, uprear, upsurge, upswing, upthrow,
   uptrend, upturn, walk, walkabout, walking tour, wander, waxing,
   widen, widening

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