Definition of joyride
1 : a ride taken for pleasure (as in a car or aircraft); especially : an automobile ride marked by reckless driving (as in a stolen car)
2 : conduct or action resembling a joyride especially in disregard of cost or consequences
joyride
intransitive verbjoyriding
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Examples of joyride in a Sentence
Some teenager stole my car and took it for a joyride.
Recent Examples of joyride from the Web
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Other calamities: 500 gallons of fuel oil incorrectly pumped into the basement of a house in Oakdale, and $35,000 in damage to a combine from a joyride in a farm field. Strangest claim to date?
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Apparently, only a few months later, a parolee stole the vehicle for a joyride, reaching speeds of 100 miles per hour and then rolling the car about a dozen times before landing in a field.
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CLOVER, S.C. -- South Carolina police say two children went for a joyride and crashed their babysitter's car into a tree, and the woman who was supposed to be watching them is now in jail.
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A Clover woman who was babysitting two children is charged with child neglect and drug charges after the children went for a joyride in her car and crashed into a tree.
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Ernst A. Lehmann took his passengers on a joyride that included passing over Baltimore.
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And once my car was stolen in Philadelphia, taken for a joyride and later recovered neater than before it was stolen.
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Store security footage revealed the suspect, but no one knew his name. Trashed joyride.
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Enter electric bikes, which can turn an impossible trip into a joyride.
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First Known Use of joyride
1909
JOYRIDE Defined for English Language Learners
joyride
playDefinition of joyride for English Language Learners
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: a fast car ride taken for pleasure; especially : a ride in a stolen car
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