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- noun Plural form of
joyride . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
joyride .
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Examples
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Abu Seman gave three ridiculous reasons in Parliament as to why there was no need to comply with the tender document requiring physical evaluation and test flight of the helicopters tendered, while Datuk Seri Najib Razak, Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Finance Minister who was Defence Minister when the helicopter deal was clinched, claimed that "joyrides" of the Couger EC725 helicopter by RMAF pilots at the LIMA Airshow in Langkawi were adequate as physical evaluation and test-flights!
Lim Kit Siang 2008
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Mayhem, of course you can take the sub on joyrides - you and Fireman Sam could join the Half Mile Under Club.
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More accustomed to chasing William from nightclub to nightclub, the British press remained unaware for weeks of these taxpayer-funded joyrides.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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The day that a member of Parliament stood in the House of Commons to protest the joyrides, Wills was taken up for spin in a $50 million Tornado fighter jet.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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Virgin Galactic has signed a 20-year-lease and is expected to pay at least $5 million a year for the right to use the spaceport's enormous runway to launch tourists on joyrides into weightlessness.
Slow Liftoff for Space Tours Stephanie Simon 2011
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"It's because you don't like my way of living," he charged, thinking in his own mind of the sensational joyrides and general profligacy with which the newspapers had credited him -- thinking this, and wondering whether or not, in maiden modesty, she would disclaim knowledge of it.
Chapter XV 2010
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So, it would be another 1,000km, only my odometer is lying, or roverthedog is taking it out for joyrides, because my records from last fall said I stopped biking at 800km, and when I started riding 17 days ago it said 858.
bike log roverthedog 2010
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Even among these reprobates, the 1996 federal welfare reform law imposed time limits, meaning their little joyrides won't last.
$69 Million In California Welfare Money Spent Out Of State AP/HuffPost 2010
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So, it would be another 1,000km, only my odometer is lying, or roverthedog is taking it out for joyrides, because my records from last fall said I stopped biking at 800km, and when I started riding 17 days ago it said 858.
bike log roverthedog 2010
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Even among these reprobates, the 1996 federal welfare reform law imposed time limits, meaning their little joyrides won't last.
$69 Million In California Welfare Money Spent Out Of State AP/HuffPost 2010
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