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"ref": "2018 December 25, Austin Murphy, “I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon.”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-10-22",
"text": "Before sending me out alone, the company assigned me two \"ride-alongs\" with its top driver, the legendary Marco, who went out with 280 packages the second day I rode shotgun with him, took his full lunch break, did not roll through a single stop sign, and was finished by sundown.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To ride in the front passenger seat of a vehicle, next to the driver."
],
"links": [
[
"ride",
"ride#Verb"
],
[
"front",
"front#Adjective"
],
[
"passenger",
"passenger"
],
[
"seat",
"seat#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US, idiomatic, by extension, slang) To ride in the front passenger seat of a vehicle, next to the driver."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"broadly",
"idiomatic",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English idioms",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1997, Michael McKenzie, chapter 1, in Arrowhead: Home of the Chiefs, Lenexa, Kan.: Addax Pub. Group, page 16",
"text": "He has ridden shotgun over Hunt's financial affairs since Hunt was a baby in business, ascending to the head chair on the board that governs the Chiefs and the Hunt Midwest Enterprises empire of mining and real estate development.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2005 December, Gail Perry, “Acknowledgements”, in Show Me!: Quickbooks 2006 (Show Me!), Indianapolis, Ind.: Que Publications, page iii",
"text": "Thank you also to Stacey Ammerman, who rode shotgun on the technical editing end of this book to make sure everything you read is easy to understand and actually works the way it is supposed to.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Gary Keller, “Foreword”, in Rick Villani, Clay Davis, Flip: How to Find, Fix, and Sell Houses for Profit, New York, N.Y., Chicago, Ill.: McGraw-Hill, →DOI, page viii",
"text": "Not only are they investors, they run a company, HomeFixers, that helps hundreds of other investors each year. What they bring to the table is hard-won brass-tacks knowledge from over fifteen years of personal investing as well as riding shotgun on over 1,000 flips with their clients.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To supervise a process and watch for any risks."
],
"links": [
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"supervise",
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],
[
"process",
"process#Noun"
],
[
"watch",
"watch#Verb"
],
[
"risks",
"risk#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US, idiomatic, by extension, slang) To supervise a process and watch for any risks."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"broadly",
"idiomatic",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌɹaɪd ˈʃɒtɡʌn/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌɹaɪd ˈʃɑtɡʌn/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8e/En-au-ride_shotgun.ogg/En-au-ride_shotgun.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/En-au-ride_shotgun.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Croatian",
"sense": "to ride in the front passenger seat of a vehicle, next to the driver",
"word": "voziti se na suvozačkom mjestu"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to ride in the front passenger seat of a vehicle, next to the driver",
"word": "auf dem Beifahrersitz mitfahren"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to ride in the front passenger seat of a vehicle, next to the driver",
"word": "scortare"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to supervise a process and watch for any risks",
"word": "een oogje in het zeil houden"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Charles J. Guiteau",
"James A. Garfield",
"National Publishing Company",
"The Straight Dope"
],
"word": "ride shotgun"
}
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