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rode high

rode high is the simple past and past participle 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 rode high

What is rode high the simple past and past participle of?
Rode high is the simple past and past participle of ride high.

Words near rode high in the dictionary

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

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