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Meaning of ghost-ride | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

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.

rare, transitive

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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