noun

• (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
  "The banquet went off without a hitch"
• (military, slang) A period of time spent in the military.
  "She served two hitches in Vietnam."
• (mining) A hole cut into the wall of a mine on which timbers are rested.
  "An upcast fault is when the seam is thrown up; to counteract this a "canch" of top stone must be taken down outbye over from the fault, and a "canch" of bottom stone taken up inbye over from the fault, then level up to the bottom of your "canch" at the foreside of the hitch outbye over until you have a regular gradient to the seam on the hitch."

verb

• (transitive) To pull with a jerk.
  "She hitched her jeans up and then tightened her belt."
• (transitive) To attach, tie or fasten.
  "He hitched the bedroll to his backpack and went camping."
• (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
• (informal, transitive) Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
  "to hitch a ride"

name

• (informal) Alfred Hitchcock