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  • 41Ride the bus — Infobox CardGame title = Ride the bus subtitle = image link = image caption = alt names = type = Drinking players = 3 7 num cards = 52 deck = Anglo American play = Clockwise card rank = Ace(A) Two(2) origin = related = Drunk Driver playing time …

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  • 42ride — v 1.(all in reference to animals) sit on, manage, mount, bestride, perch on, sit on top of; be carried by, be borne along by, travel on. 2. motor, automobile, taxi; tour, travel, journey; float, body surf, Inf. surf, Inf. catch a wave, Inf. hang… …

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  • 43ride — {{11}}ride (n.) 1759, from RIDE (Cf. ride) (v.); slang meaning a motor vehicle is recorded from 1930; sense of amusement park device is from 1934. To take (someone) for a ride tease, mislead, cheat, is first attested 1925, Amer.Eng., possibly… …

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  • 44ride — verb (past rode; past participle ridden) 1》 sit on and control the movement of (a horse, bicycle, or motorcycle).     ↘(usu. ride in/on) travel in or on (a vehicle or horse).     ↘compete in (a race) on a horse, bicycle, or motorcycle.     ↘N.… …

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  • 45ride — I. verb (rode or chiefly dialect rid; ridden or chiefly dialect rid or rode; riding) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English rīdan; akin to Old High German rītan to ride, Middle Irish réidid he rides Date: before 12th century intransitive… …

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  • 46ride*/*/ — [raɪd] (past tense rode [rəʊd] ; past participle ridden [ˈrɪd(ə)n] ) verb I 1) [I/T] to sit on a bicycle, MOTORCYCLE, or an animal such as a horse and control it as it moves I learned to ride a bike when I was five.[/ex] Have you ever ridden on a …

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  • 47ride — Synonyms and related words: Sunday drive, abut on, aggravate, airing, annoy, auto, badger, bait, bamboozle, banter, be at, be based on, bear on, bedevil, beset, bestraddle, bestride, bicycle, bike, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bully, bullyrag …

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  • 48ride — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. drive, tour, journey, travel; jog, gallop, trot, etc.; cycle, pedal. v. t. be borne; sit (a horse); mount, straddle; tease, harass. See support, travel, ridicule. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. drive,… …

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  • 49take — I n. (colloq.) reaction 1) a double take ( delayed reaction ) (to do a double take) illegal payments 2) on the take (they were all on the take) ( they were all accepting bribes ) II v. 1) to take (a matter) lightly; seriously 2) (A) ( to carry )… …

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  • 50take — I [[t]te͟ɪk[/t]] USED WITH NOUNS DESCRIBING ACTIONS ♦ takes, taking, took, taken (Take is used in combination with a wide range of nouns, where the meaning of the combination is mostly given by the noun. Many of these combinations are common… …

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