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ride up

ride up verb: to approach or come near to while riding.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) to approach or come near to while riding.
  2. (intransitive, especially tight skirts) to move up higher on one's body.
    • My jeans always seem to ride up on me in public.
    • The skimpy black underpants had ridden up, and now Chang’s wrinkly old bottom was pointing in their direction.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

Noun

ride up (plural ride ups)

  1. The act or process of riding up

Forms of ride up

Verb
third-person singular presentrides up
present participleriding up
pastrode up
past participleridden up
alternative formride-up
Noun
pluralride ups

Questions about ride up

What does ride up mean?
Ride up means to approach or come near to while riding.
What part of speech is ride up?
Ride up can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of ride up?
The past tense of ride up is rode up.

Words near ride up in the dictionary

  1. ride the short bus
  2. ride the three-legged mare
  3. ride the tiger
  4. ride the wave
  5. ride to hounds
  6. ride up
  7. ride up on
  8. ride ups
  9. ride with
  10. ride with the punches
  11. ride-along

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