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hitchhiker:

a female hitchhiker thumbing for a ride

a person who goes on a long journey by getting free rides in other people’s, mostly total strangers’, vehicles, usually standing by the road-side and showing the thumb to the passing motorists

a hitchhiker with an axe (here the axe represents the criminal mind of the hitchhiker)

{‘Hitch-hiking’, the act of getting free rides in total strangers’ vehicles, is allowed in most countries. In some countries, like in the USA, however, hitchhiking is not allowed in several states.  There are numerous crimes, such as robbing, raping, kidnapping, etc., related to hitchhiking and hitchhikers around the world, and travellers (strangers and tourists) are warned against giving or taking a hitchhike by the local people as well as the police in many countries around the world.}

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