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UK
/dʒˈɔɪɹaɪd/
]
[ US /ˈdʒɔɪˌɹaɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈdʒɔɪˌɹaɪd/ ]
NOUN
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a ride in a car taken solely for pleasure
they took their girlfriends for joyrides in stolen cars
VERB
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ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it
We tooled down the street
How To Use joyride In A Sentence
- Time allowed 06:25 Trail of destruction ... police pursue teenage joyrider across three counties.
- ‘We'll have ultralights, light aircraft and general aviation - like Cessnas and a couple of warbirds including a twin pioneer, which people can have joyrides on,’ John said.
- More accustomed to chasing William from nightclub to nightclub, the British press remained unaware for weeks of these taxpayer-funded joyrides. William and Kate
- they took their girlfriends for joyrides in stolen cars
- In setting the scene for my post I would love to recount a tale of blissful youth, a text-book joyride throughout early adulthood culminating in a fulfilled maturity.
- Hugely criticized for embarking on a European "joyride" as flood waters swelled across Pakistan, the fact that Zardari was in London around the time of the sale may be evidence enough for malcontents. Beenish Ahmed: Did Pakistan's President Zardari Buy Record Breaking £140 Million London Apartment?
- A farmer has slammed joyriders who chased his cattle into a stampede, driving one to its death.
- Until the driver got out I was convinced it was going to be a 15 year old joyrider. Boing Boing
- Virgin Galactic has signed a 20-year-lease and is expected to pay at least $5 million a year for the right to use the spaceport's enormous runway to launch tourists on joyrides into weightlessness. Slow Liftoff for Space Tours
- It's because you don't like my way of living," he charged, thinking in his own mind of the sensational joyrides and general profligacy with which the newspapers had credited him -- thinking this, and wondering whether or not, in maiden modesty, she would disclaim knowledge of it. Chapter XV