verb
- past tense of joyride; to take someone else’s vehicle without permission for pleasure or excitement
Usage: informal
Examples
- The teenagers joyrode in their neighbor’s car while he was on vacation.
- She joyrode through the countryside in her father’s convertible.
- They joyrode around town until the police caught them.
- He joyrode the motorcycle for hours before returning it.
- The kids joyrode in the stolen vehicle until it ran out of gas.
- She admitted she joyrode her brother’s car without asking.