hitch up

hitch up (third-person singular simple present hitches up, present participle hitching up, simple past and past participle hitched up)

1. To fasten up.
2. To pull up, or raise with a jerking movement.

   hitch up your skirt

   • 1987, “Tom's Diner”, in Suzanne Vega (lyrics), Solitude Standing:

     And I'm trying not to notice / That she's hitching up her skirt

3. To attach (a horse, etc.) to a vehicle.

   Hitch up the trailer.

4. (usually in passive, "get hitched up") To marry.

• “hitch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.