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rides high

rides high is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ride high.

Meaning of ride high

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To enjoy good fortune; to be in a privileged situation; to be particularly happy or proud.
    • He that went away with his frock-skirts looped over his arm, comes back riding high; suddenly made one of the dignitaries of this world.1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 9”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page)
  2. (idiomatic, slang) To perform the coital alignment technique.

Questions about rides high

What is rides high the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rides high is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ride high.

Words near rides high in the dictionary

  1. rides fences
  2. rides for
  3. rides hard
  4. rides hard and puts away wet
  5. rides herd on
  6. rides high
  7. rides off
  8. rides off into the sunset
  9. rides on
  10. rides on a rail
  11. rides on the back of

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