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ghost ride

ghost ride is the alternative form 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

Forms of ghost ride

third-person singular presentghost rides
present participleghost riding
pastghost rode
past participleghost ridden

Questions about ghost ride

What is ghost ride the alternative form of?
Ghost ride is the alternative form of ghost-ride.

Words near ghost ride in the dictionary

  1. ghost project
  2. ghost ramp
  3. ghost ramps
  4. ghost restaurant
  5. ghost restaurants
  6. ghost ride
  7. ghost rocket
  8. ghost rockets
  9. ghost runner
  10. ghost runners
  11. ghost shark

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ghost ride (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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