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ride up

verb

  1. intr, adverb to move or work away from the proper place or position

    her new skirt rode up uncomfortably

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Gradually move upward from a normal position, as in This skirt is too tight and it constantly rides up . [Mid-1800s]
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Example Sentences

Twice did I ride up and down the bazar and the principal streets, but without meeting with any hope of adventure or bunij.

Tell ye, 'f the Old Boy himself sh'd ride up alongside, shouldn't be a mite s'prised to see him.

Death will ride up soon in a big black carriage and take you wid him down to de regions of deep darkness.

I longed for her brother to ride up behind us, so that I might still be a prisoner, but she had provided against that.

I have locked the porter up, and I don't suppose they will find it out till they ride up, half an hour hence.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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