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ghostride

ghostride 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 ghostride

third-person singular presentghostrides
present participleghostriding
pastghostrode
past participleghostridden

Questions about ghostride

What is ghostride the alternative form of?
Ghostride is the alternative form of ghost-ride.

Words near ghostride in the dictionary

  1. ghostological
  2. ghostologies
  3. ghostologist
  4. ghostologists
  5. ghostology
  6. ghostride
  7. ghostriding
  8. ghosts
  9. ghosts at the feast
  10. ghosts from one's past
  11. ghosts in machines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ghostride (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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