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ride pillion

ride pillion verb: to travel on the back seat of a motorcycle.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To travel on the back seat of a motorcycle.
    • The Mafia has set up a school for teenage killers in the southern Sicilian countryside, where pupils as young as 11 are taught to shoot, assemble weapons and ride pillion on motor-scooters.1999 August 16, Philip Willan, “Mafia sets up crime academy to train child assassins”, in The Guardian
    • Bike riders swarm through rush-hour traffic on Friday and clash with police after mayor targets passengers riding pillion2018 January 26, Joe Parkin Daniel, “Colombia motorbike ban: Bogotá mayor forbids pillion riders in bid to curb crime”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    pillion, ride bitch

Synonyms of ride pillion

Forms of ride pillion

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

Questions about ride pillion

What does ride pillion mean?
Ride pillion means to travel on the back seat of a motorcycle.
What part of speech is ride pillion?
Ride pillion is a verb.
What is the past tense of ride pillion?
The past tense of ride pillion is rode pillion.

Words near ride pillion in the dictionary

  1. ride out
  2. ride out the storm
  3. ride over
  4. ride pass
  5. ride passes
  6. ride pillion
  7. ride rantipole
  8. ride roughshod over
  9. ride rusty
  10. ride Saint George
  11. ride shotgun

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