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Definition of ride high
ride high 
verb
- to feel very good. Occasionally meaning snobbish or egotistical.
He was riding high after he got into the college he wanted.
- See more words with the same meaning: to be happy, feel good.
Last edited on Jan 13 1998. Submitted by Emily M. from UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA on Jan 13 1998.
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Other terms relating to 'to be happy, feel good': | |
| Definitions include: the pleasant feeling after sexual intercourse. | |
| Definitions include: to feel great. | |
| Definitions include: an expression of excitement or joy, used mostly by computer aficionados. | |
| Definitions include: exclamation of joy. | |
| Definitions include: to cheer up. | |
| Definitions include: to be extremely happy. | |
| Definitions include: to cheer up. | |
| Definitions include: to feel great. | |
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Other terms relating to 'high': | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated from marijuana. | |
| Definitions include: no matter what. | |
| Definitions include: "Galesville Ettrick Trempealeau High School" in Galesville, WI. | |
| Definitions include: "high gravity". | |
| Definitions include: intoxicated from drugs. | |
| Definitions include: very high. | |
| Definitions include: the upper range of an estimated figure. | |
| Definitions include: a person who makes large sums of money. | |
| Definitions include: erect nipples. | |
| Definitions include: of extreme high quality, expensive to a point that it becomes unattainable. | |
| Definitions include: see in high cotton. | |
| Definitions include: very high; excessively high. | |
| Definitions include: very high. | |
| Definitions include: pie-in-the-sky, fancy, crazy and elitist. | |
| Definitions include: HIV. | |
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Other terms relating to 'ride': | |
| Definitions include: taking a passive role. | |
| Definitions include: an ordeal. | |
| Definitions include: Liking somebody too much, usually when it's undeserved. | |
| Definitions include: a ride of excitement or great fun. | |
| Definitions include: a group member who piggybacks on the others, gets away clean without doing any work. | |
| Definitions include: shortened form of "full-ride scholarship". | |
| Definitions include: To dance along side and on a vehicle while playing loud music and as the car is still rolling. | |
| Definitions include: to have a great deal of personal interest in the outcome of a person or event. | |
| Definitions include: a reckless ride taken in a (usually stolen) automobile. | |
| Definitions include: a person who drives a car that has been lowered. | |
| Definitions include: to customize an automobile. | |
| Definitions include: an automobile. | |
| Definitions include: Someone who will do anything for you. | |
| Definitions include: sitting in the middle of the back seat instead of sitting by the windows or the front seat when the car is full. | |
| Definitions include: Position during sex where female sits astride male, facing his feet. | |
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