Definition of Joyriders

1. Noun. (plural of joyrider) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Joyriders

1. joyrider [n] - See also: joyrider

Lexicographical Neighbors of Joyriders

joyous
joyously
joyousness
joyousnesses
joypad
joypads
joypop
joypopped
joypopper
joypoppers
joypopping
joypops
joyridden
joyride
joyrider
joyriders
joyrides
joyriding
joyridings
joyrode
joys
joysome
joystick waggler
joystick wagglers
joysticked
joysticking
joysticklike
joysticks
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Literary usage of Joyriders

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Children in Northern Ireland: Abused by Security Forces and Paramilitaries by Lois Whitman (1992)
"Joyriders have been killed in crashes, have killed pedestrians, and have been shot dead by security forces (the most recent case was the killing of two ..."

2. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1918)
"... German Government were merely "joyriders" who had taken foolhardy risks after being reasonably warned; that the right of Amer- The Non-Partisan League. ..."

3. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"... across the place committees, ' known unpleasantly in the to the post-and-telegraph office, and filed army as 'joyriders,' YMCA workers, for the cables. ..."

4. Germany, Garbage and the Green Dot: Challenging the Throwaway Society by Bette K. Fishbein (1996)
"... DSD announced that it intended "to take action against 'joyriders' [sic] who use the green dot without paying for it by introducing a computer- aided ..."

5. Youth Violence: Developing Local and State Solutions Hearings Before the edited by Fred Thompson (1998)
"As Commissioner Hattaway will attest, we are dealing today with an increasingly hardened and violent young offender—not the trespassers and joyriders of 40 ..."

6. The Creative City by Charles Landry, Franco Bianchini (1995)
"... initiatives by local residents to block off roads used by joyriders, in response to the inertia of the local authority; the alternative proposals for ..."

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