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rode herd on

rode herd on is the simple past of ride herd on.

Meaning of ride herd on

Verb

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

  1. (US, idiomatic, transitive) To supervise.
    • As the new editor, his job is to ride herd on the staff and check on the tone of the articles.

Questions about rode herd on

What is rode herd on the simple past of?
Rode herd on is the simple past of ride herd on.

Words near rode herd on in the dictionary

  1. rode fences
  2. rode for
  3. rode hard
  4. rode hard and put away wet
  5. rode hard and put up wet
  6. rode herd on
  7. rode high
  8. rode off
  9. rode off into the sunset
  10. rode on
  11. rode on a rail

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rode herd on (page history and authors); ride herd on (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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