0 to pull something, especially trousers or a skirt, upwards to a slightly higher position: --
She hitched her skirt up before wading across the stream.
1 If you hitch up a vehicle, you connect it so that it can be pulled, and if you hitch up an animal to a vehicle, you connect it so that it can pull the vehicle: --
We watched as the farmer hitched up a team of oxen.
NYA ORD
European
May 10, 2021
DAGENS ORD
Shimmer
hitch sth up