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ride-alongs

ride-alongs is the plural of ride-along.

Meaning of ride-along

Noun

ride-along (plural ride-alongs)

  1. A person who goes on a ridealong.
    • As a ride-along, you have up front close experience on how our police officers operate day and night out enforcing the laws of DC.2012, Curtis E Mozie, Beyond the Yellow Tape
  2. (broadly) A member of an organization who is more of a follower than a leader.
    • Being a ride-along doesn't make you immune, but it takes the bull's-eye off your back.2017, Kenneth L. Fisher, The Ten Roads to Riches
  3. A piece of marketing material that is included in a mailing about a different product.
    • Stacks of ride-alongs that share the cost of the mailing.1994, Jay Conrad Levinson, Seth Godin, The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook, page 178

Questions about ride-alongs

What is ride-alongs the plural of?
Ride-alongs is the plural of ride-along.

Words near ride-alongs in the dictionary

  1. ride up on
  2. ride ups
  3. ride with
  4. ride with the punches
  5. ride-along
  6. ride-alongs
  7. ride-on
  8. ride-ons
  9. ride-or-die
  10. ride-or-dies
  11. rideability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ride-alongs (page history and authors); ride-along (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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