hellride
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]hellride (plural hellrides)
- A hellish journey or experience.
- 1978, Roger Zelazny, The Chronicles of Amber, page 171:
- We indulged in a bit of casual lovemaking on my return from a hellride to a place where I obtained a sufficient quantity of rough diamonds to pay for the things I was going to need for my assault on Amber.
- 2012, Ben Macallan, Pandaemonium:
- Which was when I reached into my pocket with my other hand – trusting Horse to keep me on his back, pretty much; but he'd done well so far, and this wasn't a hellride through the undiscovered landscape of his mind, just an amble up into the hills […]
- 2014, G Whiz, Unbroken:
- Bestselling author Christopher McDougall enthusiastically praised Laura's novel by calling it "a hellride of a story". He remarks on the "courage", "adventure", and "charisma" of Louis […]