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ghost-rides

ghost-rides is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ghost-ride.

Meaning of ghost-ride

Verb

ghost-ride (third-person singular simple present ghost-rides, present participle ghost-riding, simple past ghost-rode, past participle ghost-ridden)

  1. (rare, transitive) To accelerate, exit, and then move along or even dance on top of (a moving vehicle), with or without the intention of getting back in.
    • As an overturned police car burned out of control, a rioter got hold of a lifeguard ATC three-wheeler, ghost-rode it into the fire, turned around and raised both arms in triumph.2003, Sam George, The Perfect Day: 40 Years of Surfer Magazine, →ISBN, page 114

Questions about ghost-rides

What is ghost-rides the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Ghost-rides is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ghost-ride.

Words near ghost-rides in the dictionary

  1. ghost-pinged
  2. ghost-pinging
  3. ghost-pings
  4. ghost-ridden
  5. ghost-ride
  6. ghost-rides
  7. ghost-riding
  8. ghost-rode
  9. ghost-townish
  10. ghost-write
  11. ghost-writes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ghost-rides (page history and authors); ghost-ride (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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