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rode by

rode by is the simple past of ride by.

Meaning of ride by

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.

Questions about rode by

What is rode by the simple past of?
Rode by is the simple past of ride by.

Words near rode by in the dictionary

  1. rode a horse foaled by an acorn
  2. rode a horse foaled of an acorn
  3. rode a rantipole
  4. rode along
  5. rode bitch
  6. rode by
  7. rode dirty
  8. rode down
  9. rode down on
  10. rode fence
  11. rode fences

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rode by (page history and authors); ride by (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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