ride up

English

Alternative forms

• ride-up

Verb

ride up (third-person singular simple present rides up, present participle riding up, simple past rode up, past participle ridden up)

1. (intransitive) to approach or come near to while riding.
2. (intransitive, of clothes, especially tight skirts) to move up higher on one's body.

   My jeans always seem to ride up on me in public.

   • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     The skimpy black underpants had ridden up, and now Chang’s wrinkly old bottom was pointing in their direction.

Related terms

• ride up on

Noun

ride up (plural ride ups)

1. The act or process of riding up

Anagrams

• Purdie, upride