"death ride" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: death rides [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} death ride (plural death rides)
  1. A course of action, voluntarily entered into by at least the leading participant, which is (or appears) certain or very likely to result in death, failure, or defeat.
    Sense id: en-death_ride-en-noun-z8mgGAGj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 96 4

Verb

Forms: death rides [present, singular, third-person], death riding [participle, present], death rode [past], death ridden [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|||death rode|death ridden}} death ride (third-person singular simple present death rides, present participle death riding, simple past death rode, past participle death ridden)
  1. To perform a death ride.
    Sense id: en-death_ride-en-verb-i5w92IAa

Inflected forms

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