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white knuckle ride

white knuckle ride is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of white knuckle ride

pluralwhite knuckle rides

Questions about white knuckle ride

What is white knuckle ride the alternative spelling of?
White knuckle ride is the alternative spelling of white-knuckle ride.

Words near white knuckle ride in the dictionary

  1. white knight syndrome
  2. white knighted
  3. white knighting
  4. white knights
  5. white knuckle
  6. white knuckle ride
  7. white knuckle rides
  8. White Kulaman
  9. white label
  10. white ladies
  11. White Ladies Aston

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