"ride along" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rides along",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riding along",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rode along",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ridden along",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "rides along",
        "2": "riding along",
        "3": "rode along",
        "4": "ridden along"
      },
      "expansion": "ride along (third-person singular simple present rides along, present participle riding along, simple past rode along, past participle ridden along)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "7 93",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 82",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (along)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To go for a ride with another or others; especially, to join police officers on their patrol in a patrol car."
      ],
      "id": "en-ride_along-en-verb-F-0QSGl~",
      "links": [
        [
          "ride",
          "ride#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "police officer",
          "police officer"
        ],
        [
          "patrol car",
          "patrol car"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ride along"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ride alongs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ride along (plural ride alongs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "ridealong"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Misspelling of ridealong."
      ],
      "id": "en-ride_along-en-noun-GKbSSze~",
      "links": [
        [
          "ridealong",
          "ridealong#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
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        "misspelling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ride along"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (along)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rides along",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riding along",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rode along",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ridden along",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "rides along",
        "2": "riding along",
        "3": "rode along",
        "4": "ridden along"
      },
      "expansion": "ride along (third-person singular simple present rides along, present participle riding along, simple past rode along, past participle ridden along)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To go for a ride with another or others; especially, to join police officers on their patrol in a patrol car."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ride",
          "ride#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "police officer",
          "police officer"
        ],
        [
          "patrol car",
          "patrol car"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ride along"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (along)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ride alongs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ride along (plural ride alongs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "ridealong"
        }
      ],
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        "English misspellings"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Misspelling of ridealong."
      ],
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        ]
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ride along"
}