hitchhikers
Thumbs-up travelers seeking
Hitchhikers are people who travel by soliciting free rides from passing motorists, typically standing at roadsides with a thumb extended or holding a sign indicating their destination.
The practice was common mid-twentieth-century transportation for young people and those without cars, though safety concerns have diminished it.
Figuratively, hitchhikers can be organisms or objects that travel attached to something else: The seeds are hitchhikers that cling to animal fur.
In computing, hitchhiker sometimes describes code or data that piggybacks on legitimate processes.
Paging with digit
- roadsideAdjacent to pavement
- ridesTravels aboard something
- driversVehicle operators or motivating forces
- strangersPeople unknown to you
backpackers · nomads · wanderers · drifters · transients · vagabonds · wayfarers · journeyers
- towelAbsorbent fabric for drying
- galaxyGravitationally bound stellar mass
- MarvinMasculine name, Welsh origin
- science fictionSpeculative fiction with technological themes
Arthur Dent · Ford Prefect · comedy · satire · improbability · Earth · harmless · panic
Beat Generation novelist
- beatniksFifties countercultural rebels
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
- bohemiansUnconventional artistic types
- freedomAbsence of constraint
rebellion · sixties · seventies · hippies · alternative · subculture · romanticized · wanderlust
thumbing
Paging with digit
- roadsideAdjacent to pavement
- ridesTravels aboard something
- driversVehicle operators or motivating forces
strangers · backpackers · nomads · wanderers · drifters · transients · vagabonds · wayfarers · journeyers · lifts
Douglas Adams
- towelAbsorbent fabric for drying
- galaxyGravitationally bound stellar mass
- MarvinMasculine name, Welsh origin
Arthur Dent · Ford Prefect · science fiction · comedy · satire · improbability · Earth · harmless · panic · trilogy
Kerouac
Beat Generation novelist
- beatniksFifties countercultural rebels
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
- bohemiansUnconventional artistic types
freedom · rebellion · sixties · seventies · hippies · alternative · subculture · romanticized · wanderlust · dropouts
risks
Possible negative outcomes
- strangersPeople unknown to you
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- trustConfidence in another
caution · warnings · danger · unpredictability · screening · intuition · alertness · crime · stories · disappearances
parasites
Organisms feeding off hosts
- hostsThose who entertain guests
- attachmentConnection or fondness
- dispersalSpreading in many directions
seeds · burrs · organisms · transport · vectors · ecology · symbiosis · clinging · freeloaders · stowaways
- travelerspassenger, travelers, traveler, tourist, vacationers
- budget travelersbackpackers, couch surfers, hostelers
- homeless youthstreet kids, runaways, throwaways, homeless youth, unaccompanied minors
- road userspedestrian, pedestrians, cyclist, cyclists, motorist
- truck stopdiesel, diesel pump, fuel pumps, showers, overnight parking
- backpackersgap year travelers, couch surfers
hitchhikersdrivers
Vehicle operators or motivating forces
motorists · chauffeurs · truckers · operators · taxi drivers
- The Hitchhiker's Guide
- Hitchhikers GuideCosmic wanderer's reference book
- phantom hitchhikerDisappearing roadside spirit