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by jevogel 317 days ago
Hitching.
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Yeah. If it isn't actually accompanied by emotions that suggest a cause, you really might want to see a doctor about that. If you also sleep on your side, go for the home sleep study if offered, it's worlds more convenient.
Is that the name for it? That word means "to attach" or "to marry" to me, lol
hitch

verb move (something) into a different position with a jerk. travel by hitch-hiking. informal obtain (a lift) by hitch-hiking. fasten or tether. harness (a draught animal or team). noun a temporary difficulty or problem. a knot of a particular kind, typically one used for fastening a rope to something else. a device for attaching one thing to another, especially the tow bar of a motor vehicle. an act of hitch-hiking. informal a period of service. informal

Slanguagely: "There is a hitch in your get-along", implying "there is a difficulty with your system/process/activity"

That's not what that means! If you want to put a hitch in my gitalong, for example, you might try a really saucy compliment.
I won't argue that the usage can change, and I could see how it could also be used to imply that one's posterior moves in a pleasing manner, but in my experience it has only been used to indicate an issue:

Marjorie Kimmerle & Patricia Gibby, "A Word-List from Colorado," in Publication of the American Dialect Society (April 1949) has this entry for the term hitch:

    hitch: n. A crick ; a limp. Used only in the expression "He's got a hitch in his git-along." Said of horses and people. OED, A limp, a hobble, an interference in a horse's pace.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/283244/hitch-in-...
Which experience would this be? That is a Stack Overflow link you posted. But I would expect such a footless prescriptivist to behave in just so ill informed a manner; excuse my short patience, I understand this actually is your best that you're showing.