Citations:ghost ride

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English citations of ghost ride

ghost ride: to move alongside a moving vehicle, having exited it, with or without intention of getting back in

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  • 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.
  • 2010, Q. B. Wells, Blackface: A Novel →ISBN, page 81:
    A ten-year-old Blank enjoyed ghost riding, a technique of accelerating the bike to top speed, jumping off the back seat, and releasing the handlebars, making the bike look as if it's being ridden by a ghost. Black and his friends often ghost rode the bikes into the beach rocks along Lake Michigan []

ghost ride: to coast along

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  • 2014, Jack David Wanstreet, My Tenth Summer →ISBN, page 15:
    I coast to a stop and jump off my bike. It ghost rides for a couple feet and falls over.