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ˈsleigh-ride, n.
Also sleighride, sleigh ride.
1. A ride in a sleigh. Also fig.
1770J. Hiltzheimer Diary (1893) 2 Apr. 20 Took a sleigh ride, the ‘five mile round’, with wife, sister, and son Tommy. 1828H. J. Finn et al. Whimwhams 22 Such worthy gentlemen happen to remember..a winter's breakfast at a country inn, after a sleigh-ride of ten miles for an appetite. 1849Longfellow Kavanagh xii, Last week we had a sleigh-ride, with six white horses. 1902W. D. Hulbert Forest Neighbors (1903) 181 Not even a sleigh-ride on a winter's night can set the live blood dancing as it will dance and tingle up there above the clouds. 1956E. B. White Let. 14 Jan. (1976) 412, I am cheered up when I see our political giants discovering that the lil ole writing game isn't quite the sleighride they like to think it is.
2. U.S. slang. The action of taking a narcotic drug, usu. cocaine; the euphoria resulting from taking a narcotic drug. Usu. in phr. to take (go on) a sleigh ride and varr. Cf. snow n.1 5 d.
1925Flynn's 4 Apr. 818/2 Sleigh-ride, a jab of morphine from a hypodermic syringe, or the resulting state of intoxication. 1928M. C. Sharpe Chicago May xxxi. 286 Taking a sleigh ride, getting morphine. 1938D. Castle Do your Own Time xxix. 251 ‘He took to going on sleigh rides.’ ‘No! Where the hell did he get the snow?’ 1942Detective Fiction Apr. 56/2 Julio is very fond of his hop. Anything from the weed to a sniff of snow. Suppose he gets on a big sleigh ride and talks out of turn. 1963‘D. Shannon’ Death of Busybody iv. 52 It was just some dope out on a sleigh-ride.
3. U.S. slang. An implausible or false story; a hoax, a deliberate deception. Freq. in phr. to take (someone) for a sleigh ride, to mislead (someone). Cf. ride n.1 1 f (a).
1931G. Irwin Amer. Tramp & Underworld Slang 172 An absolutely impossible or unlikely idea or action, or..the cheating or fleecing of a victim... ‘We gave him a sleigh ride’—we cheated him by a false story or by sharp practice. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §202/2 Incredible story, sleigh ride. 1950Sun (Baltimore) 13 Mar. 1/1 House Republicans, charging that the taxpayers are being taken for a ‘bureaucratic sleighride’. 1960Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 486/2 Sleighride, an instance of being cheated, believing a lie, or being taken advantage of. Almost always in the expression ‘taken for a sleighride’.
Hence as v. intr., (a) to ride in a sleigh; (b) to take a narcotic drug. Also ˈsleigh-rider; ˈsleigh-riding vbl. n.
1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 7 He recollects perfectly the time when young ladies used to go a sleigh-riding..without their mammas. 1833Knickerbocker I. 207 Arrived at the Plains, the sleigh riders stopped at a tavern. 1845Judd Margaret iii. (1851) 377 In winter, we sleigh⁓ride, coast, skate, snow-ball. 1883Wheelman (Boston, Mass.) I. 434, I was making my first trial of it [sc. a bicycle] in the snow, among the sleigh-riders. 1915G. Bronson-Howard God's Man vi. iii. 376 Whadda you been doing?—sleigh⁓riding? Stick to the long bamboo, Charley—that snow's awful bad for the imagination. Ibid. vii. i. 409 Petty's kind had been profitable ‘sleigh-riders’ when he provided ‘snow’ on Seventh Avenue. 1929Detective Fiction Weekly 13 Apr. 599/1 He's a sleigh rider. You know, sniffs coke. Made a fortune writing papers for booze hustlers and has spent every dime of it on snow. 1934C. de Lenoir Hundredth Man i. 13 Sniffing heroin or cocaine is ‘sleigh⁓riding’. 1949Summit Valley Times (Argo, Illinois) 1 Dec. 4/3 Santa, who now reigns the Christmas card realm, in 1919 managed to sleighride onto only a handful of cards for children. 1977H. Waugh Secret Room of Morgate House (1978) xxxiv. 164 Between times they sleighrode, and even walked. 1982J. Adair Founding Fathers xii. 267 The New Englanders adopted..skating and sleigh⁓riding from their Dutch neighbours. |