ghost-ride
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.28 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
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.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From the idea that the driverless vehicle looks like it is being driven by a ghost. The practice and the term originated in the San Francisco Bay Area and were popularized by E-40's 2006 song Tell Me When to Go (2006).