ride-along
/ˈrʌɪdəˌlɒŋ/North American (originally US )
noun
1Attributive Designating a police programme under which observers accompany police officers on patrol, to provide the opportunity to learn about police work and to encourage closer relationships with the community; of or relating to such a programme.
2A programme of this kind.
3An observer accompanying such a patrol.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in The Chicago Tribune. From ride + along.
- palaeopsychological
- palaeopsychologist
- palaeopsychology
- palaeo-radius
- Westralian
- West Ridinger
- West Roxbury
- West Saxon
- West Seneca
- West Side
- West Sider
- west-south-west
- west-south-westerly
- west-south-westward
- west-south-westwards
- West Sussex
- westvale
- West Valley City
- West Virginia
- West Virginian
- westward
- westwardly
- westwardmost
- westward position
- westwards