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ride by

ride by verb: to do a drive-by shooting.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To do a drive-by shooting.
  2. (slang, transitive, African-American Vernacular) To target (a place) with a drive-by shooting.

Forms of ride by

third-person singular presentrides by
present participleriding by
pastrode by
past participleridden by

Questions about ride by

What does ride by mean?
Ride by means to do a drive-by shooting.
What part of speech is ride by?
Ride by is a verb.
What is the past tense of ride by?
The past tense of ride by is rode by.

Words near ride by in the dictionary

  1. ride a rantipole
  2. ride along
  3. ride alongs
  4. ride and tie
  5. ride bitch
  6. ride by
  7. ride cymbal
  8. ride cymbals
  9. ride dirty
  10. ride down
  11. ride down on

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