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joy-ride, n. colloq. (orig. U.S.).|ˈdʒɔɪraɪd|
[f. joy n. + ride n.1]
A pleasure trip in a motor car, aeroplane, etc., often without the permission of the owner of the vehicle. Also transf. and fig. Hence ˈjoy-ride v. intr., to go for a joy-ride; trans., to convey (as) on a joy-ride; ˈjoy-rider, one who goes on a joy-ride; ˈjoy-riding vbl. n.; also attrib.
1908W. S. Blunt Diary 5 Aug. (1920) II. 217 Joy⁓riders..light-hearted Londoner folk concerned with nothing but their own pleasure. 1909N.Y. Even. Post (Semi-weekly ed.) 15 July 2 [The] Acting Mayor vetoed the ordinance passed last week to prevent city officers from taking ‘joy rides’. Ibid. 2 Sept. 8 ‘This was no haphazard expedition,’ he said, ‘no intensified Arctic joy ride, undertaken on nerve.’ 1910National Police Gaz. 2 July 3/4 As a rule there isn't much chance of joy riding in a taxi. 1913Aeroplane 17 Apr. 455/2 The pilots of machines already qualified naturally took no risks of damaging their mounts by ‘joy riding’. 1913Collier's 27 Dec. 9 (heading) With the joy-riding fleet. 1915D. O. Barnett Let. 6 July 206 We joined forces and captured a motor-ambulance which joy-rided us back here. 1915Amer. Mag. Oct. 28/2 You take your dago friend 'n' joy-ride with the gang all night. 1918H. Hayens Lords of Air 41 Unfortunately I was not joy-riding, but bent on serious business. 1919Aeroplane 5 Feb. 555/1 There are two million people in this country who wish for what is vulgarly called a joy-ride in an aeroplane. Ibid. 555/2 Joy-riders will not be taken aloft one at a time but in half-dozens and dozens, in big flying boats..and multiple-engined land machines. 1922F. Harris My Life & Loves I. ix. 187 ‘Aren't you tired?’..‘No,’ I replied, ‘I feel no fatigue, indeed, I feel the better for our joy ride!’ 1922Joyce Ulysses 497 You once nobble that, congregation, and a buck joy ride to heaven becomes a back number. 1925Flynn's 14 Feb. 664/2 Joy-ride, intoxication resulting from use of drugs. 1925Times 26 Sept., For the third year..no fatal accident involving passengers in other flying for hire, mainly ‘joy ride’ flights. 1930E. Pound XXX Cantos ix. 36 With three pages of secret instructions To the effect: ‘Did he think the campaign was a joy-ride?’ 1952C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil's Aeneid xii. 280 Around them..The hostile formations are pressing..While you're joy-riding over these empty fields. 1972J. Brown Chancer xii. 161 That's what you need now, he says—need a joy-ride, man... No danger neither, he says, on the joy-pop. 1972N.Y. Law Jrnl. 10 Oct. 20/6 The annotation..dealing with elements of the offense defined in ‘joyriding’ statutes fails to disclose any case in which the person using a rented vehicle with the consent of the custodian has been held guilty of unauthorized use. 1973Scottish Sunday Express 5 Aug. 7/8 A man who drove away two cars for a ‘joy ride’ was fined {pstlg}75. |