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ride
verb- to have sex US
Usually from the female perspective. - I tied him to the bed, then I rode him. He loved it! — Anka Radakovich, The Wild Girls Club, p. 5, 1994
- She probably got the hots so bad for those hunks she rode Al Dante like a horse for days after. — Rita Ciresi, Pink Slip, p. 50, 1999
- (used of a lesbian) to straddle your prone partner, rubbing your genitals together US
- Riding is when one girl gets on top of another and their legs are criss-crossed and you just go up and down. — Ruth Allison, Lesbianism, p. 39, 1967
- to engage in sycophantic flattery US
- — Washington Post Magazine, p. 17, 18 December 1988: “Say wha?”
- to irritate or worry someone US, 1918
- I’ll have that bugger yet–he’s been riding me all week. — Beale, 1984
- to play jazz with an easy-moving rhythm US, 1929
▶ let it ride- in gambling, to continue a bet from one play to another, increasing the bet with winnings US
- — Lee Solkey, Dummy Up and Deal, p. 118, 1980
- Let it all ride. — Diner, 1982
- to tolerate something; to take no action about something UK, 1921
- [P]eople in high places might make decisions you don’t agree with but it’s best to let it ride. — The Guardian, 13 June 2003
▶ ride a beef
to accept a charge for a crime that you did not commit US- And he let you ride the beef? — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, p. 292, 1967
- “No sense anybody else riding this beef”, Harold said stubbornly. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Choirboys, p. 365, 1975
- Carol would never ride a beef for a man. — Gerald Petievich, Money Men, p. 35, 1981
▶ ride a g-string; ride in a g-string
to drive a BMW car SOUTH AFRICA
Scamto youth street slang (South African townships).- Fancy [...] a ride in a g-string? — Rebecca Harrison, Reuters, 8 February 2005
▶ ride a pony
to cheat on a test in college or school US- — Time Magazine, p. 46, 24 August 1959
▶ ride bitch
to sit in the middle of the front seat in a pickup truck, between the driver and another passenger US- — Lewis Poteet, Car & Motorcycle Slang, pp. 164–165, 1992
▶ ride dirty
to drive under the influence of alcohol US- — Don R. McCreary (Editor), Dawg Speak, 2001
▶ ride ghost
to drive at night without headlights US- — Steven Daly and Nathaniel Wice, alt.culture, p. 120, 1995
▶ ride it
to endure or cope with imprisonment UK- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 97, 1996
▶ ride it a treat
in horse racing, to ride a skilled and intelligent race AUSTRALIA- — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 69, 1989
▶ ride old smokey
to be executed by electrocution US- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 177, 1950
▶ ride rubber
to ride in a car US- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 222, 1981
▶ ride Santa’s sleigh
to use cocaine UK, 2001
A phrase that combines SNOWride shotgun- to act as a security or military escort UK
From the time when stage coaches carrying valuables were protected by a man carrying a shotgun who sat on top of the coach alongside the driver. - T]he last two Jaguars [aircraft] with Dave riding shotgun between them. — Robert Prest, F4 Phantom, 1979
- to be prepared for any eventuality in business US
- — Robert Kirk Mueller, Buzzwords, p. 140, 1974
- to travel in the passenger seat US, 1921
- Originally as an armed guard, but later all sense of protection lost. Big Ed and the other doorman riding shotgun hurriedly followed Smokey toward the house. — Donald Goines, Dopefiend, p. 168, 1971
- Although you’d probably have to ride in the back seat ‘cause his nuts would ride shotgun. — The Breakfast Club, 1985
- I could not take off solo in a Jeep while Strauss followed me (Miranda riding shotgun) in his Audi. — Rita Ciresi, Pink Slip, p. 331, 1999
- I drove west on Hamilton, toward the river, to Front Street. Lula was in front riding shotgun, and Bob was in back with his head out the window[.] — Janet Evanovich, Seven Up, pp. 39–40, 2001
- to oversee and control someone with a firm hand US
- ‘Cause you did your time there and nobody wasn’t constantly riding shotgun on you. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 122, 1972
▶ ride the broom
to threaten someone; to predict harm US- — Charles Shafer, Folk Speech in Texas Prisons, p. 212, 1990
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 36, 1992
▶ ride the bubbles
in hot rodding and drag racing, to rise slightly off the ground as a result of aerodynamics US- — John Lawlor, How to Talk Car, p. 88, 1965
▶ ride the bus
to defecate US- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 7, November 1990
▶ ride the card
to ride a winner on every race at a race meeting AUSTRALIA- George rode the card on New Year’s Day, 1923[.] — Joe Brown, Just for the Record, p. 200, 1984
▶ ride the circuit
to move someone who has been arrested from stationhouse to stationhouse, making his timely release difficult US- But we don’t have to. We can ride the circuit with you. It might take days. — Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister, p. 174, 1949
▶ ride the cotton pony; ride the cotton horse
to be in the bleed period of the menstrual cycle; to have sex with a menstruating woman US
This “cotton pony” is a “sanitary towel”.- — American Speech, p. 298, December 1954: “The vernacular of menstruation”
- — Adult Video News, p. 38, September 1995
- — The Museum of Menstruation and Women’s Health, April 2002
- Ridin’ the cotton pony. — The Onion, 20 June 2001: “Top euphemisms For menstruation”
- [S]o now the www knows I am riding the cotton pony this weekend. — seaspray-itsawonderfullife.blogspot.com, 1 September 2007
▶ ride the grub line
to travel and survive by scrounging food wherever it can be found CANADA- But she was not a schoolteacher. Roy Smith was a schoolteacher. She was riding the grub line. — George Bowering, Caprice, p. 60, 1987
▶ ride the Hershey Highway
to engage in anal sex US- — Pamela Munro, U.C.L.A. Slang, p. 71, 1989
▶ ride the lightning
to be put to death by electrocution US, 1935- ALL RIGHT, RUBY, YOU’RE GONNA RIDE THE LIGHTNING! — Lenny Bruce, The Essential Lenny Bruce, p. 206, 1967
▶ ride the pine
to sit on the sidelines of an athletic contest as a substitute player US- Jake Powell, a part-time outfielder for the New York Yankees, is riding the pine for 10 days for blurting in an impromptu broadcast on the field in Chicago that he spent his winters doing police work and that his speciality was hitting “niggers”[.] — San Francisco News, p. 13, 4 August 1938
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 8, March 1986
- I’ll call the principal for you and tell him his assistant dean of admissions is gonna be at County Jail riding the pine in the detox box. — Stephen J. Cannell, The Tin Collectors, p. 98, 2001
▶ ride the pipe
to pilot a jet after engine failure US, 1991
Korean war usage.▶ ride the red tide
to experience the bleed period of the menstrual cycle US- — Karen Houppert, The Curse, 1999: “Riding the red tide.”
▶ ride the short bus
to be mentally deficient US
From the literally short bus that special education students use in the US.- Actually, I think our bass player, Frank [Cavanaugh], rode the short bus, but that was ‘cause his mom drove it. — Baltimore Sun, p. 8, 28 September 1995
- — Chris Lewis, The Dictionary of Playground Slang, p. 184, 2003
▶ ride the showing
to tour an area evaluating billboards for potential advertising use US- — Walter Hurst and Donn Delson, Delson’s Dictionary of Radio & Record Industry Terms, p. 95, 1980
▶ ride the sick book
to feign illness; to malinger US- — Carl Fleischhauer, A Glossary of Army Slang, p. 10, 1968
▶ ride the silver steed
to participate in bismuth subcarbonate and neoarsphenamine therapy for syphilis US- — Maledicta, p. 227, Summer/Winter 1981: “Sex and the single soldier”.
▶ ride the splinters
to sit on the sidelines of an athletic contest as a substitute player US
The “splinters” are an allusion to the bench which the substitute “warms” or “rides”.- So he just rides the splinters as the Red Sox certainly have no use for him. — San Francisco Call-Bulletin, p. 11, 20 June 1949
▶ ride the turtles
to drive on the raised reflective road markers that delineate motorway lanes US- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 37, 1997
▶ ride the white horse
to experience euphoria after using heroin US- — American Speech, p. 88, May 1955: “Narcotic argot along the Mexican border”
▶ ride the wire
to travel by tram US- We didn’t trust cabbies, so we got on another trolley, and in one morning I rode the wire more than I had in five years. — Red Rudensky, The Gonif, p. 108, 1970
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