Ghost-ride

Quick meaning: Ghost-ride is a verb meaning (transitive, rare) To accelerate, exit, and then move along or even dance on top of (a moving vehicle), with or without the intention of getting back in.

Meaning

(transitive, rare) To accelerate, exit, and then move along or even dance on top of (a moving vehicle), with or without the intention of getting back in.

Example Sentences

As an overturned police car burned out of control, a rioter got hold of a lifeguard ATC three-wheeler, ghost-rode it into the fire, turned around and raised both arms in triumph.

But that's what happened, as thrill seekers followed his command to exit their moving cars ("whips") and dance alongside and on top of them. Though ghost riding already existed in the hyphy scene of Bay Area hip-hop, "Tell Me" so popularized the craze that Kendra, the youngest of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends, ghost-rode a whip during an episode of The Girls Next Door.

Word Forms

• ghost-rides
• ghost-riding
• ghost-rode
• ghost-ridden

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ride, ghost, joyride, tailride, beride, scoot.

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