Ride
Ride verb - To attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults.
Usage example: that supervisor is always riding everyone for every little thing
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
How words are described
| old | old ride | old try |
| good | good ride | good try |
| nice | nice ride | nice try |
| best | best ride | best try |
| Other adjectives: normal, short, complete, single, small, actual, entire, big, great, living, new, former, final, last. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The bad ones are nothing more than cheap attempts to try and ride the coat-tails of another author, and are quickly derided as such by reviewers.
Source: Follow The Leader / Fanfic -
The Wild Bunch almost begins with one as most of the bandits are killed when they try to rob a bank and instead ride right into a trap.
Source: Total Party Kill -
Title Drop: Every ride will somehow try to work this in.
Source: Ride / Disney Theme Parks
Cite this Source
Try and Ride. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/ride/try
Ride & Try. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/ride/try>.
Try or Ride. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/ride/try.
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