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Definition of Joyride
1. Verb. Ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it. "We tooled down the street"
Category relationships: Driving
Generic synonyms: Ride
Related verbs: Tool
2. Noun. A ride in a car taken solely for pleasure. "They took their girlfriends for joyrides in stolen cars"
Definition of Joyride
1. Noun. An instance of driving a motor vehicle in a carefree or reckless manner, especially a vehicle which has been taken without the permission of the owner. ¹
2. Noun. (dated) A ride taken for enjoyment. ¹
3. Verb. To take a joyride. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Joyride
1. to take an automobile ride for pleasure [v -RODE, -RIDDEN, -RIDING, -RIDES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Joyride
Literary usage of Joyride
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Instigations of Ezra Pound: Together with an Essay on the Chinese Written by Ezra Pound, Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1920)
"We have ceased to believe that we conquer anything by having Alexander the Great
make a gigantic “joyride” through India. We know that conquests are made in ..."
2. Bound to Be Free by Richard B. McKenzie (1982)
"Many people use gasoline to joyride; that use seems wasteful to many. But, it is
difficult to see why, in the cosmic sense of things, that such a use of ..."
3. The Digital Work Force: Building Infotech Skills at the Speed of Innovation by Carol A. Meares (2000)
"... is Enough," Computerworld proclaimed the end of rapid salary increases for IT
workers based on their 12th Annual Salary Survey: "The joyride is over, ..."
4. The foundations (1920)
"... old lydy; joyride wiv the Press; marble floors, pillars o' gold; conscientious
footmen; ..."
5. He Usually Lived with a Female: The Life of a California Newspaperman by George Garrigues (2006)
"It was the first time he 'd ever been out on a real joyride. Ava got Wendy Cox
for Bob. As Bob drove along the empty road, the wooden fence posts and ..."
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