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joyride
[ joi-rahyd ]
noun
- a pleasure ride in an automobile, especially when the vehicle is driven recklessly or used without the owner's permission.
- a brief, emotionally exciting interlude.
verb (used without object)
- to go on a joyride.
joyride
noun
- a ride taken for pleasure in a car, esp in a stolen car driven recklessly
verb
- intr to take such a ride
Derived Forms
- ˈjoyˌriding, noun
- ˈjoyˌrider, noun
Other Words From
- joyrider noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
The joyride might start with a wispy bite of fried julienne celery root — so light it melts on the tongue, along with a surprise center of silken smoked tofu — and move on to dishes that trumpet the season.
Thus, a valet “may take possession of a person’s car to park it, but he cannot take it for a joyride.”
A valet, for example, may take possession of a person’s car to park it, but he cannot take it for a joyride.
This was not a joyride of a regular season for Jackson and the Ravens, as last season had been.
For some, it has been a joyride, an opportunity to stick the eye of an establishment they saw as easy to hate.
Up to this point, the two have engaged in light flirtation, including the occasional joyride.
We got drunk, and I hooked him up with some Ecstasy and Xanax, and we took a joyride and partied for hours.
Liz Cheney's media joyride is boosting talk of a possible congressional run.
A joyride in which a man was run down figured prominently in his first nights entertainment.
You once nobble that, congregation, and a buck joyride to heaven becomes a back number.
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