JOYRIDE

joyride

(noun) a ride in a car taken solely for pleasure; “they took their girlfriends for joyrides in stolen cars”

joyride, tool, tool around

(verb) ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it; “We tooled down the street”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

joyride (plural joyrides)

An instance of driving a motor vehicle in a carefree or reckless manner, especially a vehicle which has been taken without the permission of the owner.

(dated) A ride taken for enjoyment.

Verb

joyride (third-person singular simple present joyrides, present participle joyriding, simple past joyrode, past participle joyridden)

To take a joyride.

Source: Wiktionary



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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