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ridden up on

ridden up on is the past participle of ride up on.

Meaning of ride up on

Verb

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

  1. (African-American Vernacular) To surprise (somebody) by attacking them, especially in a drive-by shooting.
    • Those guys rode up on me and started shooting.
  2. (informal) To tailgate (a vehicle).
    • The Dodge is riding up on me.

Questions about ridden up on

What is ridden up on the past participle of?
Ridden up on is the past participle of ride up on.

Words near ridden up on in the dictionary

  1. ridden the three-legged mare
  2. ridden the tiger
  3. ridden the wave
  4. ridden to hounds
  5. ridden up
  6. ridden up on
  7. ridden with
  8. ridden with the punches
  9. riddenness
  10. ridder
  11. riddered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ridden up on (page history and authors); ride up on (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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