Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) to start fighting.

1874		J.H. Carter ‘The Battle of Spar Island’ in Log of Commodore Rollingpin 193: You orto’ve seen ’em hitch.
1920		Ade Hand-made Fables 118: As long as the prominent Matrons stood without hitching he tried to let on to appear not to be Feazed.