Synonyms:
enlistment, hitch, term_of_enlistment, tour_of_duty, duty_tour, tour
Meaning: a period of time spent in military service
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
hitch, catch
Meaning: to hook or entangle; "One foot caught in the stirrup"
Synonyms:
limp, gimp, hobble, hitch
Meaning: walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; "The old woman hobbles down to the store every day"
Synonyms:
buck, jerk, hitch
Meaning: jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched; "the yung filly bucked"
Usage examples
Everything went off without a hitch.
"Hitch your wagon to a star," said Emerson.
It is not at all difficult to "find a hitch" in it.
You won't put that rein on again, will you?" for he was just going to hitch it up on the old plan.
All these troubles arose after he had made three journeys without a hitch and we had come to regard him as a nice, placid, gritty pony.
There was a little hitch about getting the coffin down into the grave--the necessary ropes had been forgotten: so we drew back from it, and waited in silence watching the big flakes fall gently one by one like heavenly benedictions, and melt in tears on Harry's pall.
The eager young writer, just beginning a literary career, might fix his eyes upon Francis Thompson rather than upon Sir Hall Caine; the eager young clergyman might dream dreams over the Life of Father Damien more often than over the Life of the Archbishop of Canterbury; but to what star can the eager young barrister hitch his wagon, save to the star of material success?