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joy-ride noun an impulsive excursion in a car that is, from the point of view of the riders, borrowed, but from the point of view of the law, stolen US, 1915- In those days, when automobiles were still a novelty, we got a big kick out of joyriding in somebody else’s car. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, 1946
- Seventy-five percent of all car thefts in the United States are by teen-agers out for “joy rides.” — Tom Wolfe, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, p. 33, 1965
- Eddy? do you know anybody who might wanna borrow a cab for sumpn? A little outing? A joyride? — Gilbert Sorrentino, Steelwork, p. 158, 1970
- I saw this bus and half-stoned I decided to go for a joyride–next thing I know these crazy hippies are banging into the car. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, pp. 137–138, 1975
- Must’ve been a joyride situation; they abandoned the car once they hit the retaining wall. — The Big Lebowski, 1998
- [A] Volkswagen with a yellow crook lock on the steering wheel, presumably to protect it from any joy-riding fishermen or shepherds[.] — Pete McCarthy, McCarthy’s Bar, p. 137, 2000
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