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ride
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(Verb) To sit on or in and control an animal or vehicle for transportation.Usage: Jonathan is going to ride that horse.
(Noun) Slang for car or motorcycle.
Usage: Where's my ride?
(Abbreviation) Rapid Information Discovery Engine
(Abbreviation) Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere
(Abbreviation) Revolutions In Dance Engagement
(Abbreviation) Rhode Island Department of Education
To mount and ride a person in sexual intercourse. The expression is unisexual today but was once exclusively masculine. Now obsolete: ride a false journey , to engage in extramarital sex; ride a stage / ride at the ring , to copulate (with) a woman, stage and ring being metaphors for the vagina. See copulation for synonyms.
QUOTES:
(1) John Dryden (1631-1700) in Juvenal (1692): 'How many boys that pedagogue can ride.'
(2) James Bood (Roger Moore) and Jenny Flex (Alison Doody) in A View to a Kill (1985):
-- James Bond: ' I take it you spend quite a lot of time in the saddle.'
-- Jenny Flex: ' Yes, I love an early ride.'
-- James Bond: ' I'm an early riser myself.'
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RICU
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RIDA
RIDC
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ride the hobby horse
ride the pony
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