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white-knuckle rides

white-knuckle rides is the plural of white-knuckle ride.

Meaning of white-knuckle ride

Noun

white-knuckle ride (plural white-knuckle rides)

  1. An extremely exciting and nerve-racking ride at an amusement park, etc., where one's hands grip on so tightly that the knuckles appear white.
    • A newly-devised ‘white-knuckle’ ride in a funfair was named ‘the Braveheart ride’.2003, Colin McArthur, Brigadoon Braveheart and the Scots, IB Tauris, page 139
  2. A car ride or bike ride that is similarly nerve-racking, provoking fear of a crash.
  3. (figuratively) Any extremely exciting or nerve-racking experience.
    • They must be insane to think Judy Finnegan would retire from the daily white-knuckle ride that is live television with Richard Madeley.2007, The Guardian, G2, 22 Jun., p. 3

Questions about white-knuckle rides

What is white-knuckle rides the plural of?
White-knuckle rides is the plural of white-knuckle ride.

Words near white-knuckle rides in the dictionary

  1. white-knighted
  2. white-knighting
  3. white-knights
  4. white-knuckle
  5. white-knuckle ride
  6. white-knuckle rides
  7. white-knuckled
  8. white-knuckles
  9. white-knuckling
  10. white-label
  11. white-labeled

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