to ride bitch
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9.9
- phrasal verb
- Offensive
:
ir de paquete (vulgar)
- I enjoyed riding bitch during the summer motorcycle trip.
Examples
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She loves the thrill of riding bitch on the back of his motorcycle.
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Guess I'm riding bitch.
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After he offered me a ride, I agreed to ride bitch behind him.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'to sit as a passenger' cannot be reliably derived from 'ride' (to be carried) plus 'bitch' (a vulgar insult); the noun does not denote a position or role, so the intended slang usage is idiomatic and culturally specific. Because this is informal/vulgar slang and not a transparent compositional pattern, a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would likely not infer the passenger meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
Ride bitch is slang, and one popular idea is that it comes from the car and motorcycle world where the person who rides sits in the bitch seat behind the driver and has no control. So the phrase came to mean 'to sit as a passenger on a motorcycle behind the driver'.