0 past simple and past participle of hike --
1 to go for a long walk in the countryside --
2 to increase the cost of something: --
Retailers have hiked (up) prices again.
The trail is fairly level in most spots and could be hiked by most amateur hikers.
The two men hiked through the rain forest for three days and nights until they encountered an army patrol.
The roundheads tend to argue that alcohol duties should be hiked, cigarette advertising banned completely, smoking banned in public, a war on drugs prosecuted vigorously, and all gambling curtailed.
They imposed an investment income surcharge and hiked up taxes so that people could not save out of their disposable income.
Of course one did not do that because one hiked on land similar to that of which we are talking and which already had access.
Six months later, the external financing limit was hiked up to £365 million.
Business taxation should not be hiked up separately from the council tax, but there might be some flexibility between the two.
Such encouragement puts people in hock, constantly in debt, often unable to meet usurious rates of interest, which seem constantly to he hiked up.
