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ghost_ride_the_whip
ghost-ride
See also: ghost ride
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ghost-ride (third-person singular simple present ghost-rides, present participle ghost-riding, simple past and past participle ghost-rode)
- (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.
- 2003, Sam George, The Perfect Day: 40 Years of Surfer Magazine (ISBN 0811839214), page 114:
- 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.
- 2006 November, Riding Hood, in Spin, volume 22, number 11, page 48:
- 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.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:ghost-ride.
- 2003, Sam George, The Perfect Day: 40 Years of Surfer Magazine (ISBN 0811839214), page 114: