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ride down

verb

  1. to trample under the hooves of a horse

  2. to catch up with or overtake by riding

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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It meant she missed her regular funicular ride down the hill with a work friend on their commute home from the office in the centre of Lisbon.

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The next morning, we packed our things and took one last ride down the elevator.

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Not a lot of people know about it, but I basically grew up watching the cowboys ride down the block on their horses, and I still do every single day, so it reminds me of being home, and there’s also this ancestral memory that I have to it because my family is from the South, so I kind of feel more connected to my family’s background and where they came from.

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And that was just for a little ride down the street.”

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Grover may be out-of-style these days as a first name — with apologies to the furry monster in blue, if the Phillies win it all, they’ll take a parade ride down Broad rather than Sesame Street — but the Phillies are still rocking winning streaks like they did more than 130 years ago.

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