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ride off

ride off verb: to ride defensively so as to deflect an opposing player.

Verb

ride off (third-person singular simple present rides off, present participle riding off, simple past and past participle rode off)

  1. (transitive, polo) To ride defensively so as to deflect an opposing player.
  2. (transitive) To drive away or expel (someone or something) from a location or an activity.
  3. (intransitive) To depart; to leave with no expectation of returning.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ride, off.
  5. Eggcorn of write off.

Forms of ride off

third-person singular presentrides off
present participleriding off
past participlerode off
pastrode off

Questions about ride off

What does ride off mean?
Ride off means to ride defensively so as to deflect an opposing player.
What part of speech is ride off?
Ride off is a verb.
What is the past tense of ride off?
The past tense of ride off is rode off.

Words near ride off in the dictionary

  1. ride hard and put away wet
  2. ride height
  3. ride heights
  4. ride herd on
  5. ride high
  6. ride off
  7. ride off into the sunset
  8. ride on
  9. ride on a rail
  10. ride on the back of
  11. ride one's bumper

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