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ride along

ride along verb: to go for a ride with another or others; especially, to join police officers on their patrol in a patrol car. Also the misspelling of ridealong.

Verb

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

  1. To go for a ride with another or others; especially, to join police officers on their patrol in a patrol car.

Also used as

ride along is also the misspelling of ridealong.

Forms of ride along

Verb
third-person singular presentrides along
present participleriding along
pastrode along
past participleridden along
Noun
pluralride alongs

Questions about ride along

What does ride along mean?
Ride along means to go for a ride with another or others; especially, to join police officers on their patrol in a patrol car.
What part of speech is ride along?
Ride along is a verb.
What is the past tense of ride along?
The past tense of ride along is rode along.

Words near ride along in the dictionary

  1. ride
  2. ride a hobby
  3. ride a horse foaled by an acorn
  4. ride a horse foaled of an acorn
  5. ride a rantipole
  6. ride along
  7. ride alongs
  8. ride and tie
  9. ride bitch
  10. ride by
  11. ride cymbal

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