His orange monk's robes, hitched up to show stout boots and socks, would tangle in the bushes.

ECONOMIST: Preah Maha Ghosananda

He adjusted his glasses, usually held together with Sellotape and rubber bands, hitched up his trousers, usually belted with string, and forged on.

ECONOMIST: Robert Oakeshott

Wearily, Ed hitched up his boxers and padded to the bathroom.

NEWYORKER: After the Movie

But now he has put that and everything else on hold, as he hitched up his trailer home to his truck in order to head to higher ground.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

He might have taken the time to saddle the horse or hitched up three spans of mules to Concord stage-coach and smoked a pipe as it seems no one in that city was after him.

NPR: Excerpt: 'True Grit'

The tall one hitched up his trousers.

NEWYORKER: The Woman of the House

The bearded and purposeful men who patrol the campus in Muridke with pyjama trousers hitched halfway up their shins might be graduates of these camps.

ECONOMIST: Pakistan

Cage, his face screwed up with rage, one shoulder hitched higher than the other from a back injury, looks like Quasimodo without a bell rope to hang on to.

NEWYORKER: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans