Kate realized that it was a Romanian version of the upraised hitchhiker's thumb.

A steel return lever, dull with disuse, jutted to one side like a hitchhiker's thumb.

A foolhardy tourist and inveterate backpacker, Thomas's first travel ticket was his hitchhiker's thumb and a well-worn pair of shoes.

Hitchhiker's thumb (recessive)

It has been suggested that the variation is an autosomal recessive trait, called a "Hitchhiker's thumb", with homozygous carriers having an angle close to 90 .

He looked at the Remington Standard for a moment, a vague hump under its cover with the stainless-steel return lever sticking out from the left side like a hitchhiker's thumb.

Daffy opens his gift and finds that it is an (American Automobile Association-approved) Acme Hitchhiker's Thumb, which he vainly tries to use all winter for a ride.

The difference in phenotypes may be subtle (e.g., having a hitchhiker's thumb and a straight thumb, eyes of slightly different colors, differential hair growth on opposite sides of the body, etc.) or completely undetectable.

They needed a place to dump all the displaced dirt from its construction, and ended up creating a new hunk of land that jutted out of Brooklyn into Coney Island Creek like a hitchhiker's thumb.